Preparing for the Teaching Profession

✍ Scribed by Mary Kavanagh, Michael Kavanagh

• Publisher: Oxford
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook prepares pre-service teacher education students for their transition into professional practice as teachers and invites them to develop a deep understanding of their current and future role as a teacher. By explaining the day-to-day realities of working in schools, this textbook provides realistic answers to questions that make the work of the teacher complex, demanding and satisfying. This book provides insights and links to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers as they operate in the school and classroom context. It includes suggestions for how preservice teachers can most effectively demonstrate their developing competency in selected Standards as they prepare job applications, respond to interview questions, and develop their professional portfolio. It also explains how to take a more proactive role in the induction program as an early career teacher in the first years of teaching.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Links to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST)
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Becoming a Teacher
Meeting the central aims of the Australian Curriculum
Meeting the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
School culture
Relationships
Ethics
Becoming a teacher: Being proactive and reflective
Your induction program
2 Building Your Teaching Portfolio and Applying for a Job
Applying for a teaching role
Developing a teaching portfolio
Finding the right school
Types of vacancies
Writing a job application
The interview process
3 Beginning Your Teaching Career
First steps on being appointed
Meeting your mentor
Orientation
Meeting your colleagues
Ongoing induction
Getting to know your students
Planning for your first day
Foundation classes
4 Getting to Know Your Students through Assessment
Getting to know your students
The central place of assessment
Learning intentions and goals
5 Effective Strategies for Lesson Planning
Incorporating research in your practice
Structuring lessons
Questioning
Cooperative learning
Differentiated learning and instruction
Engaging your students in their learning
Putting it all together
6 Learning Diversity in the Classroom
Students with special learning needs
Learning diversity at your school
Communicating with parents
Student Support Groups
Individual Learning Plans
What is the NCCD?
7 Supporting Students with Special Needs
Autism spectrum disorder
Hearing impairments
Visual impairments
Physical disabilities
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Students with specific learning disorders
Severe language disorders
Gifted and talented students
8 Understanding Behaviour and Student Well-being
Understanding well-being and behaviour
Beginning to understand your students as individuals
Proactive approaches to behaviour management
Dealing with specific types of misbehaviour
9 Working with Colleagues: A Whole-School Behaviour Management Approach
Whole-school behaviour management models
Tier 3 students
Bullying
Parents and cases of chronic misbehaviour
10 Teacher Well-being and Ethical Responsibilities
Teacher well-being
Professional development
Professional ethics
Working in rural and remote schools
Challenges in the lives of students
Appendix
Planning for Day 1
Blank templates
Weblinks
Glossary
Bibliography
Index