Designated Teacher Mentors and Evaluators provide advice and support to early career teachers in teacher formation and development, planning and programming, pastoral support and care, professional mentoring, advocacy, assistance to transition from Graduate to Proficient teacher (ie gaining full teacher registration).

The Teachers’ Registration Board in collaboration with the Early Career and Teacher Certification Advisor will present a one day workshop for Teacher Mentors, those with early career teacher supervision responsibilities and those responsible for coordinating the teacher registration process to move to full registration.

The mentoring component will also cover:

•      the role of Mentor Teachers
•     how Mentor Teachers can use their work with early career teachers to evidence the Australian    Professional Standards for Teachers for use in the certification process as a Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher
•      Evidence the ECT may collect and how Mentor Teachers can support them in the process
•      How Mentor Teachers get to know early career teachers, their strengths, and needs
•      Conducting professional conversations and undertaking observation of practice.