Leadership and Mentoring: Opportunities for Associate Teachers Through the Practicum Experience 

Leadership & Mentoring Opportunities AT Practicum

Leadership & Mentoring Opportunities AT Practicum
Members $35
Non-members $50

This PLD presentation considers that through being an Associate Teacher in the practicum experience offers teachers the opportunity to view this as a leadership role. The value of having student teachers in the practicum experience offers ATs opportunities to identify with the role, expand on their relationship, communication and mentoring skills, view their passion for early childhood education in a different way and to further develop and model the role. skills and benefits of leadership.
50.00

This PLD is aimed at teachers in Early Childhood services that have tauira in their centres on their practicum experiences.  It is also aimed at teachers who aspire to be associate teachers or are wanting a leadership role.  

This PLD will introduce participants to the following:

  • Conceptualising leadership as influence with purpose.
  • the four principles of leadership: mentoring; relationships; communication; and passion (Woolston’s research). 
  • the elements of effective mentoring in the AT (LT and mentoring) roles.   

Time to complete: 45-60 minutes

  

Presenter: Debbie Woolston, Senior Lecturer | Pūkenga Matua, Te Rito Maioha ECNZ

Debbie Woolston is a lecturer with the Whangarei Regional Education Centre of Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand and has been with the organisation for seven years. She completed her Master of Education at Waikato University in 2017, wherein she looked at the role of associate teachers in early childhood education. Her research interests tend toward better understanding and improving the practicum experience in initial teacher education. 

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