Rudd Government Invests In Quality Teaching For Australia
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and the Victorian Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, today congratulated the first 45 high achieving university graduates selected to Teach for Australia.
As part of its Education Revolution, the Rudd Government is investing heavily in quality teaching because it has the single greatest influence on student engagement and achievement.
Teach for Australia is an initiative that has been developed to attract the best and brightest university graduates into the nation’s classrooms.
Today 45 graduates will begin their intensive 6-week training program at the University of Melbourne, before taking up posts in educationally disadvantaged schools throughout Victoria.
Teach for Australia provides a new employment-based pathway into teaching, by getting top university graduates from non-teaching fields such as law, accounting, sciences, and management to work as teachers for two years, while they continue studying towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching.
This is the start of an exciting new social entrepreneurial approach that will see top graduates from around the nation taking on the challenges and rewards of educating our young people.
Pathway programs for top graduates such as Teach First in the UK and Teach for America in the US have been shown to deliver better student outcomes and importantly, help raise the status of the profession.
Selected from 750 applicants, the participants will bring with them valuable skills and experience gained from other careers that will support the ongoing development of our teacher workforce.
Throughout their placements the 45 associates will receive mentoring and support from business mentors and experienced teachers.
Teach for Australia employer and corporate partners will continue to assist the associates with career and professional development once they have completed the program.
Teach for Australia is one element of the Rudd Government’s $550 million Smarter Schools Quality Teaching National Partnership with States and Territories which aims to attract, train, place, develop and retain quality teachers and leaders in our schools.
Further information on Teach for Australia is available at www.teachforaustralia.org
Topics: accounting, achievement, Australia, education, employment, Governance, graduates, jobs, law, management, Melbourne, quality teaching, Rudd Government, schools, sciences, Smarter Schools Quality Teaching National Partnership, students, Teach For Australia, teachers, university, Victoria
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