Standard 8: Teachers are active members of their profession.
Teachers are able to demonstrate a capacity to contribute to a professional learning community, in a school and in the wider community. (e.g. by engagement with a professional teaching body)
In this standard it highlights the importance of the teachers co-operation and participation within the school communities, teams and staff activities. It is also of the utmost importance that a teacher interacts with all immediate surroundings such as parents and other industry professionals in a positive and respectful manner.
Throughout my final year in teaching, I have joined two unions the AEU and IEU. I believe being aware of the most recent and up to date information about my career is vital and it is through these unions I can receive the resources I need. Joining both these unions means that for the remainder of my teaching career I will have the support and help I require to successfully and comfortably teach for many years to come. Being an English and History major, these unions ensure that the work I produce will be recognised and my job supported. Both these unions represent and help not only pre-service teachers with information, but offer support, advice and representation when required (AEU, 2013)
I currently have a membership pending with the IEU, the Independent Education Union of Victoria and Tasmania. The IEU's goals and aims revolve around teachers within the Catholic and Independent school sector by ensuring that all the teachers, teaching and surrounding environments are supported and free from unnecessary conflict and issue (IEU, 2013). Similar to the AEU, protecting teachers, their jobs and working for reflective pay is at a high priority.
More specifically, the AEU, the Australian Education Union has just over 51,000 current members. These members range from primary educators through to higher secondary and adult educators all within the government or public sector of education within Victoria. They represent and promote the importance of public education as well as the members that create the education system. They promote and invest money, advertisement and awareness into the importance of public education to ensure that it remains a pinnacle echo in the eye of the public (AEU, 2013). For me, it's important to be part of these unions as they offer information, training and other crucial development factors for my teaching career.
Shelby O'Donnell - Membership number: 9968819
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Throughout my final year in teaching, I have joined two unions the AEU and IEU. I believe being aware of the most recent and up to date information about my career is vital and it is through these unions I can receive the resources I need. Joining both these unions means that for the remainder of my teaching career I will have the support and help I require to successfully and comfortably teach for many years to come. Being an English and History major, these unions ensure that the work I produce will be recognised and my job supported. Both these unions represent and help not only pre-service teachers with information, but offer support, advice and representation when required (AEU, 2013)
I currently have a membership pending with the IEU, the Independent Education Union of Victoria and Tasmania. The IEU's goals and aims revolve around teachers within the Catholic and Independent school sector by ensuring that all the teachers, teaching and surrounding environments are supported and free from unnecessary conflict and issue (IEU, 2013). Similar to the AEU, protecting teachers, their jobs and working for reflective pay is at a high priority.
More specifically, the AEU, the Australian Education Union has just over 51,000 current members. These members range from primary educators through to higher secondary and adult educators all within the government or public sector of education within Victoria. They represent and promote the importance of public education as well as the members that create the education system. They promote and invest money, advertisement and awareness into the importance of public education to ensure that it remains a pinnacle echo in the eye of the public (AEU, 2013). For me, it's important to be part of these unions as they offer information, training and other crucial development factors for my teaching career.
Shelby O'Donnell - Membership number: 9968819
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