If you're a student teacher doing a graduate diploma or are in your final year of study, you'll probably be completing your final teaching practicum in the next couple of months. As well as being an amazing learning opportunity, this is a great chance to open doors for yourself and strengthen your ... Read More →
Job Seeking
8 Ideas for Keeping Up With Education and Connecting With Other Educators
Beginner Teachers, Job Seeking
When you’ve finished your teaching qualification but haven't yet landed your first teaching role, it can be easy to feel a bit out of touch with other educators and what’s happening in the education sector. This can be really hard if you’re used to being surrounded by other teachers in your classes ... Read More →
Two School Principals Share Their Advice for Job Seeking Beginning Teachers
Job Seeking
When you’re a beginning teacher looking for your first teaching role, it can be hard to know where to start. Applying for a job in a school is a unique process with its own rules and expectations, and when you’ve just graduated this process can be hard to navigate. With this in mind, last month ... Read More →
International Teaching – What Does It Look Like?
Job Seeking
This is a guest post by Kristina Appleby, one of the senior recruitment consultants at Education Personnel. To hear more from Kristina, follow her Twitter @EducationKris Vanuatu, Brunei, Singapore… or for the more adventurous Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or even Kazakhstan. Visions of big adventures, ... Read More →
Reviewing and Redo-ing Your Job Find Strategy.
Job Seeking
In our last post, we talked about the new Teacher Education Refresh programme and what it means for teachers who’ve had their provisional registration for six years or more. If you’re concerned that you might not get your full registration within this six year window, it’s a really good idea to get ... Read More →
Teacher Education Refresh – The Facts
Job Seeking, Teach in NZ
In the last few months, we’ve been approached by a number of provisionally registered beginning teachers who are worried that they might not get their full registration in time. They’ve heard they’ll need to complete a refresher course to renew their registration. Here are the facts: As outlined in ... Read More →
Putting Together a Job Find Strategy for the Year Ahead
Job SeekingIf you're a beginning teacher who hasn't yet scored the teaching job of your dreams, now's a great time to put together a job find strategy for the year ahead so you can earn money, keep busy and gain experience while putting your best foot forward in your job applications. The key to putting ... Read More →
Writing a CV for Relief Teaching
Job Seeking, Relief Teaching
It's the beginning of term 1, and for some of you that will mean preparing to start your first ever teaching role. For those of you who have yet to land a position, it's time to start investigating other options for employment. Relief teaching (also known as supply/substitute teaching) is one of ... Read More →