Standard+6.3.2

=Assist colleagues to identify and implement strategies to address their professional learning needs based on the professional standards. =

One of my roles as a Council Member of the Science Teachers’ Association of NSW is to plan, organise and convene the Early Career Teachers Course ([|SEN ECT Report]).

The ECT consists of 4 full day workshop sessions, spread across the year. It caters for teachers in their first few years of Science teaching. Some of the participants are in the first year of teaching having just completed their degrees, but most have been teaching for 1 or 2 years and some have retrained as Science teachers.

I organise various speakers of note to address a variety of topics that are relevant to this group [see [|ECT Program] for a list of speakers and topics]. While one of the great areas of concern is how to transform a syllabus into effective lessons, I also ensure that the participants are well informed about the Professional Teaching Standards as provided by the NSW Institute of Teachers, initially be having a speaker from NSWIT to inform the participants of the requirements of accreditation. Obviously the ECT workshops help the participants fulfill these requirements.

I use the Framework of Professional Standards, to plan the sessions, so that the course can be accepted by NSWIT for accreditation purposes at Professional Competence level.

Also as editor of STANSW [|eNews] (a quarterly electronic newsletter) I publicise professional learning opportunities and resources to a large number of Science Teachers throughout New South Wales.

I am also asked for [|advice] concerning professional development and assist my colleagues in determining their choices of professional development.courses.