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Being an effective associate teacher

Being an Associate Teacher (AT) is one way to make a great contribution to our profession by supporting the next generation of teachers. ATs often get little or no training for this important role and this can result in student teachers not getting sufficient support.

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Being an Associate Teacher (AT) is one way to make a great contribution to our profession by supporting the next generation of teachers. However, ATs often get little or no training for this important role and this can result in student teachers not getting sufficient support, guidance and challenge during their practicum experiences.

Additionally, ATs have an important role to play as gatekeepers of the quality of our profession in that they sometimes have to say a student teacher doesn’t make the grade. This is something most are ill-prepared for.

This webinar has shared some of the key responsibilities of being an AT and the basic mentoring strategies to ensure that you give the best possible learning experience for your student teacher on practicum.

About the presenter

Barbara Watson (PhD)

Barbara is a qualified early childhood and primary teacher and has owned and managed early childhood centres. Having worked as part of the EC Professional Support team at the Faculty of Education for 7 years, she has strong links with The University of Auckland. While in this role Barbara facilitated a variety of workshops and programmes for a wide range of ECE services and also lectured on a number of ECE papers.

Barbara has a passion for supporting teachers to make effective links between theory and practice. Her Masters thesis focused on leadership and adult education and her PhD investigated how induction and mentoring programmes are enacted in education and care services. Barbara works with centre leaders as a mentor, coach and external appraiser.

Really great webinar! Has given me confidence to put my hand up to an associate kaiako next term. Lots of examples on how I can provide feedback and the expectations needed of me for my future students.

— LANI

This webinar helped a lot with what I should do when practicums begin. And the reflective questions I should ask myself are very helpful too. Hope I can build professional relationships with teachers!

— XUAN

Being a first time AT myself I found this webinar from beginning to end to be very informative . I have learned to acknowledge the students growth and to be specific on my own expectations. I have gained a lot of knowledge myself through the clear concise bullet points in this webinar. Thank you.

— MARIKA

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Being an effective associate teacher

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