ASPES IRG Feedback Stage 2.2 - Australian Teacher Aide

Career Level Statements

We are seeking your feedback on the career levels. This feedback will be collated, and provided to all IRG members, for review at our next meeting.

Before providing feedback, please go to Stage 2.2 for an overview of the Focus Group meeting held on 16th June.

Feedback for Stage 2.2 closes on Wednesday 20 July 2022

INSTRUCTIONS

Please download a copy of the Statement of Career Stages. This will enable you to view the stages side by side. You may wish to use this as a working document before submitting your feedback

In the statements below, each career level has been divided into three parts:
a) describes the level of supervision
b) describes competence in terms of knowledge and skills and how they are gained
c) describes the purpose of collaboration at the different stages.

You may choose to answer a) b) and c) individually, OR combine your feedback in a single statement in d).

Name: *

Position: *

School/ Education Sector: *

Email: *

Phone: *

1. Early Career Teaching Assistant

1a. Supervision: As an early career teaching assistant you work with the direct supervision of teachers to support the achievement of specific educational outcomes.:

1b. Competence: You have the relevant knowledge and understanding gained through experience, professional learning and/or formal training to provide teaching and learning support in limited areas.:

1c. Collaboration: You collaborate with colleagues to improve your professional practice.:

1d. Combined Feedback:

2. Proficient Teaching Assistant

2a. Supervision: As a proficient teaching assistant you work with the general supervision of teachers to support the achievement of educational outcomes.:

2b. Competence: You have the knowledge, understanding and skills gained through experience, professional learning and/or formal training to provide teaching and learning support in general areas.:

2c. Collaboration: You collaborate with colleagues to improve your professional practice.:

2d. Combined Feedback:

3. Highly Accomplished Teaching Assistant

3a. As a highly accomplished teaching assistant you demonstrate initiative, and work with limited teacher guidance to support the achievement of educational outcomes.:

3b. You have the knowledge, understanding and skills gained through experience, professional learning and/or formal training, to apply high impact teaching and learning support in targeted learning areas.:

3c. You collaborate with colleagues to improve your professional practice, contribute to planning, and guide others.:

3d. Combined Feedback:

4. Lead Teaching Assistant

4a. As a lead teaching assistant, you demonstrate initiative and good judgement, and work independently with broad guidance to support the achievement of educational outcomes.:

4b. You have the knowledge, understanding and skills gained through extensive experience, professional learning and/or formal training to provide high impact teaching and learning support in specialist areas.:

4c. You collaborate with colleagues to improve your professional practice, contribute to planning, and lead others.:

4d. Combined Feedback:

5. Comments: Please add any other comments including your thoughts on career level names, the use of the title: teaching assistant, the wording, and sequence and length of the information.

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