The Mid-Career Transition to Teaching Program, partnering with the DoE to support aspiring teachers as they shift from STEM professions to a career in teaching

Description

Macquarie University, a partner in the NSW DoE mid-career transition to teaching program, has developed an Executive Mentoring Model with a strong focus on student agency, at-point-of-need mentoring and, job resourcing. Underpinning our model is the recognition that second-career teachers are a priori professionals upon entry to the classroom (Beaten & Meeus, 2016; Tigchelaar et al., 2008); however, they may face significant organisation socialisation challenges (Watters & Diezmann, 2013). Research indicates that job resources are more likely to facilitate positive work engagement (Bakker and Demeouti 2008, Bakker etal., 2014, Christian etal., 2011) and that work engagement is a useful pathway for successful and sustained organisational socialisation (Sak & Gruman, 2018). The Executive Mentoring Model addresses Beaten and Meeus’ (2016) call for ITE programs to ‘provide intensive mentoring support’ and resources at the earliest.

Period	Jul 2023
Held at	Australian Teacher Education Association , Australia
Degree of Recognition	National