Careers in Education

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Careers in Education

• ACS Seminars 2009

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Teach Today - Target audience

• Secondary school students
• Tertiary students studying education
• Tertiary students studying other disciplines
• Career changers
• Teachers currently not teaching
• Other sectors/interstate/international

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Schools need high quality new teachers to add and
replenish to the existing workforce

• Bulge in primary sector is now moving into
  secondary schools
• Howard governments baby bonus
• Rudd governments promise by 2013 all children
  will be able to access kinder
• Aging workforce with average age of 46 years

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What teaching offers

• Competitive stating salary of 55k
• LSL after 7 years
• Opportunities for promotion
• Department employees more than 2,500 new grads
  per year
• on going pd opportunities
• Travel a qualification you can take around the
  world
• Family friendly work conditions
• Flexible working conditions
• Potential for other career opportunities

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Areas of need

• Primary currently in balance - however projected
  need due to baby bonus and kinder promise
• Special education all areas of disability
• Secondary particularly in the areas of maths,
  science, technology, info tech, LOTE and music

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Best pathways as they offer a variety of career
opportunities

• Primary those with a general primary degree
  need to offer additional specialisation eg
  music, LOTE, PE
• Double degree
• Degree plus teacher training
• Early childhood/primary degree

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What is happening at the state level to support
the Teacher supply demand initiatives

• DEECD has introduced a number of initiatives to
  increase the supply of teachers to Govt schools
• These initiatives include
• Maths and Science Scholarship
• Student Teacher Practicum Scheme
• Graduate Recruitment Program
• Teaching Scholarship Scheme

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What is happening at the federal level - The
HECS-HELP benefit

• aims to encourage graduates in teaching or
  nursing undergraduate courses of study to take up
  employment in related occupations, and to
  encourage early childhood education teachers to
  work in specified locations including rural and
  regional areas, Indigenous communities and areas
  of socio-economic disadvantage. Teaching or
  nursing graduates (who graduate from second
  semester 2008 onwards) and eligible early
  childhood education teachers who work in
  particular areas of need will be eligible to
  apply for a HECS-HELP benefit which will reduce
  their Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
  repayments and/or debt.  The HECS-HELP Benefit
  will be extended to students who graduate from
  courses leading to initial registration in
  teaching and nursing professions from second
  semester 2009 onwards.
• More information http//www.goingtouni.gov.au/Mai
  n/Quickfind/PayingForYourStudiesHELPLoans/HECSHELP
  Benefit.htm

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Who is eligible?

• You are eligible for the benefit if all the
  following apply. You
• graduated from an undergraduate course of study
  after 30 June 2008
• were a Commonwealth supported student for some or
  all of that course
• had a HELP debt when you completed your eligible
  course
• have a HELP debt in the income year for which you
  are applying
• are required to make a compulsory HELP repayment
  for the income year of your application and
• are/were employed
• Teaching or nursing related occupation.
• for at least a week in the eligible occupation in
  the income year for which you are applying. There
  is a lifetime limit of 260 weeks for the benefit.
  
• You are not eligible for the benefit if you
• paid all your student contribution up front and
  did not have a HELP debt when you completed your
  eligible course, or are not required to make a
  compulsory HELP repayment in the income year.
• How much will you receive? The amount of the
  HECS-HELP benefit that you can receive depends on
  your HELP debt when you completed your
  mathematics or science course. The maximum
  HECS-HELP benefit for a mathematic or science
  graduate is 1,500 for the 200809 income year.
  This amount will be indexed in later years

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Teach Today other Career pathways in education

• Positions are available in a range of supporting
  roles to schools
• Education Support Officers provide a range of
  support roles in school administration, classroom
  support and maintenance
• Child and Student Health and Wellbeing
  providing a range of support roles in welfare,
  guidance, nursing, speech pathology and
  occupational therapy
• Victorian Public Service provide a range of
  support roles to schools in facilities, finance,
  communication, human resources, policy
  development and strategic planning.

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Valuable resources available to Careers Teachers

• Department of Education Early Childhood
  Development website www.teaching.vic.gov.au
• Printed collateral promoting teaching
• Printed collateral promoting areas of high
  demand- special education, maths science, LOTE,
  Music, Information Technology and Technology
• www.vit.vic.edu.au
• www.vtac.edu.au
• http//www.goingtouni.gov.au/Main/Quickfind/Paying
  ForYourStudiesHELPLoans/HECSHELPBenefit.htm

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Teach Today www.teaching.vic.gov.au
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