Undergrad and first year teachers

Undergraduate and First Year Teachers

MAV is here to support you! As a new teacher either about to head out to teaching rounds, or starting your first job in either secondary, primary or early childhood education, there is heap of support available for you at MAV!

In fact, most of the support we provide for other teachers will be relevant for you also! To get you started we have put together some quick links here to show you around our site.

Matrix Newsletter:

Firstly, if you want to stay up to date, subscribe to the Matrix newsletter here.

MAV Membership:

Your school may be a member – if so ask them to add you to their school membership with MAV so that you can access member benefits like our Journals below. If not ask them to join, or you can join as an individual. Check out our membership page here.

  • Membership is discounted for graduate teachers for the first year of teaching
  • Membership is free for undergraduate/preservice teachers.

For everyone:

Common Denominator

Our magazine is free, and provides information and stories that will allow you to see what is going on around our state, and at MAV. Read it online now.

F - 10 Resources These pages offer a range of useful and relevant links, resources and activities that can be used to engage, extend and enhance student learning.

Student activities

MAV offers a wide variety of engaging student activities for your school and students from games days, to Maths Talent Quest for primary and secondary to MAV's VCE Revision Program.

MAV conferences

MAV delivers a range of conferences from the Annual Conference to bespoke regional events.

MAVshop

For the latest resources for yourself and your school.

Professional learning

Each year MAV runs events across the state in various locations, and online, to help teachers improve their practice, stay up to date and learn together. These are listed on our events page when registrations are open. We have special events for pre-service teachers. If you sign up to our newsletter you will get info about these.

Prime Number

MAV's Primary Mathematics education journal provides wealth of resources for teachers, with activities and classroom ideas, written by practicing teachers and others.

(For members - Student/Pre-service teacher members get digital access only)

Primary puzzles and games  A living collection of Prime Number magazine’s F-6 puzzlers and investigations to promote a problem-solving classroom culture.

Vinculum

MAV's Secondary Mathematics education journal provides wealth of resources for teachers, with activities and classroom ideas, written by practicing teachers and others.

(For members - Student/Pre-service teacher members get digital access only)

VCE

If you are teaching VCE, MAV produces a number of resources for VCE such a Exam Solutions and Practice Exams, and runs a VCE professional learning program through term 1 each year (Iisted on our events page when open for bookings).

Maths Treats from Vinculum

These bite-sized activities may just give you the best idea for a warm up activity.

Build Me Up

 

This program is targeted at upskilling out-of-field teachers, teachers who are new to the profession and regional and rural teachers who may not readily have access to professional learning.
 

Undergraduate and First Year Teachers