Education comes in many forms in Australia. There is obviously teaching carried out in schools and places of higher education, but there are also many teachers whose students are perhaps people in industry taking a specialist course that do not fit into traditional education roles. Therefore there are many different types of people who can benefit from taking education courses.
It does not matter what you are teaching, whether it is long division or manual handling, you will need to make sure that the way in which you are presenting your material is interesting and engaging. Not only that, you must also ensure that you are teaching in a way that your students will be able to comprehend the content that you are teaching.
For many people a good education course to start with is one in which delivery skills are developed. There is a specific Classroom Delivery Skills course that will provide you with all of the tools that you will need in order to ensure that your delivery is as good as it can be. There are several elements to delivery and will include methods for improving instructive teaching, interactive teaching and also interpersonal teaching skills. Part of the course also teaches you how to listen as effectively as possible in order to understand why someone may be struggling with a concept and how you may be able to explain it to them in an alternative way so that they can then understand.
Obviously the students are going to be very different between different teaching groups. Therefore part of the course covers how you can build up an appreciation of what the students’ motivation is and also how to maximize the motivation to learn and work.
The groups being taught are likely to have different focuses as well as some of them will be on a course that is purely attendance based, while others will have either assessments or exams that have to be passed in order to complete the course. You will be introduced to stress management techniques that you can use if a group or an individual is struggling to cope with either the workload or from the pressure of preparing for the assessment.
Many educational settings will have some sort of conflict in them at some stage and you will be taught techniques that will enable you to deal with a range of conflict situations.
You may also be interested in educational psychology and so you can study courses that will give you an insight into how people learn. This changes with age and so you may find that you begin to incorporate different teaching methods for different age groups.
If teaching in a school is the eventual aim then you can select a number of short courses and use them to give you an overall qualification of a Certificate in Teaching. This qualification is recognized across Australia and will not only provide you with a large range of teaching tools, it also demonstrates that you are committed to your own personal development.
