Miss Art of Teaching

Being a NSW teacher requires one to pay their Teacher Accreditation fee (aka teaching license). My first teaching gig was given to me because another temporary teacher forgot to pay her accreditation fee. This jeopardise her capacity to teach in any school or service in NSW under the Education Standards Authority. Tonight I decided to pay my $100 (tax deductible) Teacher Accreditation Fee before being penalised for forgetting. I also tick a few things off my To-Do list. This included evaluating all my tasks on the NESA eTAMS dashboard (a website built for teachers to record all professional learning). I decided to look into the final processes of my maintenance of accreditation since it is due on Feb 2019. The process has been simplified and one only needs to have a total of 100 hrs (50 NESA Registered and 50 TIPD), all courses evaluated, confirm employment details and press the submit maintenance button. On the NESA e-TAMS website, it is op...

Hi  everyone This is my first post. I decided to create a blog to document the many happy memories and challenges that happen inside and outside of my Art classroom. Over the past years, I have really developed a passion for teaching and started to understand the true workload of a teacher. A small background about myself: I am a New Scheme Teacher who graduated in mid 2012 and did not start my full load teaching until the beginning of 2013. I graduated with a double degree in Bachelor of Art Education and Bachelor of Design and have been approved to teach all Visual Arts subjects as well as some Technological and Applied Studies subjects. I have taught in two schools, one being an all girls demographic school and the other being my current co-ed demographic school. Last year, I became actively involved in our school's Positive Behaviour Learning (PBL) team. I am a strong advocator for our 'Vivo' rewards program at my school and network with the school and the loc...