Building a Teaching Career: A Step-By-Step Guide

Turn your teaching career aspirations into reality

Whether you’re still deciding to become a teacher, hoping to make a career change, or interested in improving your classroom, this five-week course from McGraw Hill will help individuals at all stages of their teaching journey answer fundamental questions about teaching.

Hear from the experts and join a community of next-generation teachers as you broaden your understanding of the education sector and gain tools to address complex issues.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand teaching as a profession from the inside out, and feel confident entering any classroom.

Build your teaching career by developing a positive teaching identity

This curriculum first focuses on what goes through many aspiring teachers’ minds when they decide to become teachers.

While reflecting on your experiences and values, you’ll discuss the personal and professional qualities and motivations behind effective teachers. By asking yourself these questions, you’ll develop a stronger teaching identity.

Understand education policy and gain strategies to guide your teaching career

A firm foundation in policy and strategy is essential to crafting effective teaching methodologies and ensuring optimal learning outcomes for students.

Familiarise yourself with these policies and unpack their impact on culture, teaching practices, curriculum, and student well-being.

Learn with experts at McGraw Hill

Considered one of the “big three” educational publishers, McGraw Hill has supported the education sector for over a century.

Blending theory and practical solutions, McGraw Hill’s team of experts have developed this course in tandem with the book, “Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Education.” This text serves as a guide for anyone entering and working in the education profession.

Whether you are looking to become a first-time teacher or exploring a career move, this course is designed for anyone interested in education as a profession.

• Deciding to Become a Teacher
• An overview
• Welcome to Week 1
• Who teaches, and what motivates them?
• Knowledge and teaching
• Classroom management
• End of Week 1
• On Being a Teacher
• An overview
• Welcome to Week 2
• Who is a professional?
• The complexity in calling a teacher a ‘professional’
• Professionals, craft workers and technicians
• Research-based knowledge of teaching and learning
• The government view
• End of Week 2
• Teacher Identity
• An overview
• Welcome to Week 3
• What is teacher identity?
• The social context of teacher identity development
• Policy and research perspectives on identity development in early career teachers
• How to sustain teacher identity
• End of Week 3
• Teacher Well-Being
• An overview
• Welcome to Week 4
• Professional and personal well-being of a teacher
• Strategies for professional and personal well-being
• End of Week 4
• The Policy Context: Schools and Teacher Education
• An overview
• Welcome to Week 5
• Education policy, schools and teachers
• Accountability and datafication: governing by numbers
• Policy shifts in initial teacher education
• ITE policies
• End of Week 5