VIT CRT Networks

Victoria has 27 VIT CRT Networks across the state, each and every one of them is focused on ensuring that CRTs get the Professional Development opportunities they need to maintain their registration.  They all run with a degree of autonomy that allows their coordinators to provide these opportunities in a way which best suits their local CRTs.

They provide a range of activities which relate to your VIT Registration PD requirements in different ways. 

You are a CRT and VIT requires you to have PD hours the same as any other teacher.  As mentioned above the primary reason for VIT to start it's CRT Network Initiative was so you had access to the same sort of PD as teachers working permanently in schools.  Workshops, meetings, direction in your search for teacher identified PD opportunities.

As a CRT you are often there and then you aren't so it's sometimes hard to integrate into a school's community, even if you work primarily for one school.  Even if you do, it's often not understood that being a CRT just isn't the same as a permanent position, it has challenges and pitfalls all it's own.  It can be hard to find people able to support you in a relevant way.

We provide this community.  Whether it be through Meetings or talking on the lunch break of the latest PD, you are in a room full of CRTs able to give you advice from overcoming experiences just like you are having every day.

What if you don't want to be a CRT forever?  Perhaps you just came out of University and you missed out on a permanent job and are CRTing until you can find one.  Perhaps you are a CRT because family commitments meant you needed to be home, but now all the kids are in school and you feel ready to enter the permanent workforce?

Being a CRT is an excellent way to keep your teaching skills honed or to improve on the Practical Placements of your University course.  Why not take it one step further?  Seek out your nearest VIT CRT Network and use them to gather as much knowledge as you can to make yourself a better candidate for the next job you applied for.  Use us to get the ideas and training necessary to pull ahead of the pack!

If you intend on staying a CRT?  We all know that your performance has an effect on how often you get used in a classroom.  The better you perform, the more often you will be called.  CRT Networks provide up-to-date information on current teaching practices and the best techniques to have the greatest effect in any classroom you walk into.  Even if it is only for a day!

What's in it for Students?

The information and techniques on offer are also selected to provide you with the tools you need not only to be an effective teacher but also an effective CRT.  You have a bunch of Network Coordinators searching out presenters that not only give you information on Literacy or Maths, but also strategies on how to make the lessons fun and engaging for the students.

This not only ensures that they learn as much as possible but also that they look forward to coming to school each and every day.  You can be that CRT that they hope to have every time they find out their teacher is ill.

In the end CRT Networks are a stepping stone for CRTs to be as good as they want to be in any number of areas and for many possible reasons.

Please consider contacting your nearest CRT Network!

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock.
Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.