EREBB Highlight I Last month over 50 new and young teachers from Edmund Rice Schools around the world gathered online for the second time, to share experiences, collaborate and celebrate the vocation of teaching. The EREBB New Teachers’ Global Network enables news teachers and youth workers to meet others from across our global network. It involves them meeting (online) four times over three terms, sharing their experiences of being a new teacher/youth worker in the Edmund Rice tradition, sharing ideas and strategies, and hearing from invited Principals/Leaders about their own experiences of beginning teaching. New teachers were joined by Principals from Australia, India and the United States for this session.

At present there are new and young teachers from Australia, USA, India, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, England, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Argentina and Uruguay who are part of this pilot project. At the end of the project, teachers are invited to pair (or triple) with another teacher/s from across the globe and develop a global learning project that they can do together with their respective students…thus further engaging with the global network.

One of the key aims of the pilot project is to build new teachers’ commitment to, and excitement for, teaching in the Edmund Rice Tradition, thus supporting their retention in the profession.  According to UNESCO, retention of new teachers is a key issue across the globe.

Learn more about this initiative: https://lnkd.in/gjPrvH9N

Image: St Patrick’s College Kimberley, South Africa – an active member of the EREBB New Teachers’ Global Network.