The department is offering professional development for teachers and educators at all stages of their careers. Registrations are now open for coach and mentor training, as well as conferences for early career teachers.
Whatever stage you’re at in your career, we’re committed to your professional development.
Coach and Mentor Training program
If you’re an experienced teacher or educator already in a coach or mentor role, or just want to boost your skills, then make sure you register for the last fully subsidised Coach and Mentor Training Program intake for 2024.
Based on best-practice industry standards and research, this skills-based program builds on your existing knowledge through face-to-face and online components.
The program explores your current coaching and mentoring approach, and helps you further develop positive partnerships with the colleagues you’re supporting.
The program will help you to:
- identify and use data to inform approaches to coaching and mentoring
- use coaching and mentoring approaches to support change
- support your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others.
Additional specialist modules are available to tailor the learning to address participants' professional learning needs or priority areas within their service.
Following completion of the program, an optional alumni network is available for ongoing development and support.
Registrations close Tuesday 6 August 2024.
For more information, including eligibility, visit Coach and Mentoring Training program.
Beginning Teacher Conferences
If you’re a teacher at the start of your career looking to strengthen your professional practice and build professional networks with peers, take part in the Beginning Teacher Conferences.
The conferences are tailored specifically for those in their first 6 to 12 months of teaching, and for teachers working in funded kindergarten program services who are expected to graduate in the next 12 months.
Participants will work through practical problems with their peers in deep-dive discussions, while also hearing from experts on topics including:
- supporting children with additional needs
- Aboriginal perspectives
- supporting effective school transition.
You can attend the conferences online or in person at the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Learning, 41 St Andrews Place, East Melbourne, from 9 am to 3 pm on the following dates:
- Friday 12 July 2024
- Monday 15 July 2024
- Wednesday 28 August 2024
- Thursday 12 September 2024
- Thursday 31 October 2024.
To register, visit Beginning Teachers Conference series.
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