I only just graduated. I have been working as an ECT since November 2019. As you know (or ought to know!) we are required to get our provisional accreditation as soon as we graduate and have 3 years (of working full time) to convert that into a proficient. If you stop teaching somewhere in between, the time is paused and restarts when you resume teaching.
Proficiency is the goal. You can stay proficient for the rest of your career by maintaining it (through critical reflection and professional development over the next 5 years) OR move on towards achieving highly accomplished or lead accreditation.
I have been told that I’m ready to become proficient, I have been allocated a supervisor who I absolutely love and respect, and then I have not looked at the pack sent to me by NESA two weeks ago at-all. (I had to write multiple emails to be allocated my Supervisor because I am at the start of my provisional and they want to allocate supervisors to teachers who are at the the end of their provisional accreditation on priority).
I feel overwhelmed.
Not because I can’t put the evidence together, but only because once I start I won’t be able to stop until I finish and although I personally work well under pressure…I need some head space before I can look at the requirements for becoming proficient. I hereby give myself two weeks to begin the proficiency journey (fingers crossed). In two weeks I will begin to write about what you need to do to get yourself started.
~ Ru
The Roo that could 