1:1 MENTORING FOR PRE-SERVICE & EARLY CAREER TEACHERS
Build the confidence and practical skills for Primary and Secondary Beginning Teachers
Starting your teaching journey can feel overwhelming. Grad2Teacher provides personalised 1:1 support for preservice teachers on placement, permission-to-teach teachers and early career graduates. Whether you're about to start your 1st to 4th placement at a new school to starting to teach on your own. You will receive guidance with lesson planning, behaviour management, classroom confidence, parent communication and workload, plus anything else you may need assistance with.
My job isn’t to tell you to copy the way I teach.
It’s to help you develop the skills and confidence to find the way you teach.
Hi, I'm Bree, the founder and teacher behind Grad2teacher.
I'm a qualified secondary teacher with 10 years of teaching experience, both in Australia and internationally. But I still remember exactly what it felt like walking into my first placement and then my own classroom feeling nervous, unsure and wondering how everything I had learned at university actually worked in the real world of teaching.
Since 2015, I’ve taught in Australia, and taught in two International schools Prague and London, specialising in Junior Science and Health & Physical Education. Along the way, I’ve supported preservice teachers on placement, mentored beginning teachers and experienced firsthand the realities of behaviour management, lesson planning, workload, parent communication and imposter syndrome.
That’s why I created Grad2Teacher.
I wanted to create the support I would have valued when I was starting out, someone in your corner who you can ask the “silly” questions, show a lesson plan to, ask for differentiation ideas, work through a difficult class with, or simply turn to when you’re thinking, “Am I doing this right?”
While some beginning teachers have incredible mentors and supportive schools, not everyone gets that experience. Grad2Teacher gives you another person in your corner.
Whether you’re preparing for placement, teaching with permission to teach, or starting your first graduate role, my goal is to help you build confidence in the classroom, practical teaching skills and simple systems to manage the admin and workload that come with the job.
I’m not here to teach you to teach like me. I’m here to help you build the skills and confidence to find the teacher you want to be.
Qualifications & Experience
10 years of teaching experience — teaching since 2015
Bachelor of Education (Secondary) — Physical Education & Junior Science
International teaching experience — Prague & London 2017 -2018
Experience mentoring preservice and beginning teachers
Business Training Certificate — How to Start a Business
If you’re feeling stuck with your confidence or unsure about what to do next after finishing your degree, I would absolutely recommend Bree and Grad2Teacher. I was completely at a loss about where to start and what steps to take, and Bree helped me navigate what felt like a mountain of unknowns to eventually secure my first full-time contract within a week of signing
More than that, she supported me through the difficult weeks when my confidence and wellbeing were low and I questioned whether I was doing things right. Having someone there to talk things through with, made me feel like I wasn’t alone and that I was on the right track, even during the times when I felt like I was drowning.
Samantha
I found the service extremely flexible, accessible and understanding, which made a huge difference for me. I really appreciated being able to text or email whenever I needed support, rather than feeling like I had to wait for a scheduled session. There was no added pressure or judgement; the task was simply moved forward and I could keep going. That flexibility made me feel supported and took away a lot of the stress I was already carrying.
Annonymous
Honestly, I wasn’t really sure where to begin. I also found it quite daunting not really knowing what support was available for beginning teachers. There was a lot of information to take in, but I wasn’t always sure what applied to me or where I should go for help. Gradteacher helped with all of this.
Sam. S
What can we work on?
Confidence
Build your teacher identity, create behaviour management strategies using consistent expectations and routines; whether it's for a student or a class. plus more. Teaching the curriculum and getting familiar with everyday school.
Content
Strengthen your lesson planning/ Scope and Sequence of unit writing, classroom delivery using your voice, positions and body language, differentiation; modification vs adjustments, teaching Theory vs Practical lessons - what's the difference? Are you an early graduate? Do you know how to write covers for relief teachers?
Admin
Get more confident with parent communication, staff meeting interactions, documentation, workload and the responsibilities happening outside the lesson. With anything additional, you may be experiencing.
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How Grad2teacher Works
01. Understand where you are
We start with your current situation.
What feels difficult?
What are you already doing well?
What keeps coming up?
And what would make the biggest difference to your teaching right now?
You leave with clear priorities instead of trying to improve everything at once.
02. Build practical skills
Then we get to work.
We build strategies, routines and systems you can actually use in your classroom.
You’ll have clear areas to focus on between mentoring sessions. This is done by giving you task descriptions and ideas so you are learning and applying at the same time.
03. Apply, reflect and grow
You try it in the real world.
Then we look at what happened.
What worked?
What didn’t?
What needs changing?
Over time, you start relying less on outside reassurance and more on your own professional judgement.
That’s the goal.
04. Practical mentoring. Real classroom support.
Grad2Teacher isn’t another teaching course.
It’s on going support.
The questions that come up after placement starts.
The behaviour issue that looked nothing like the university.
The lesson that didn’t land.
The workload you haven’t quite worked out yet.
We’ll work through it together.
Services for Pre - Service Teachers
Walk into placement feeling prepared. Placement shouldn’t feel like being dropped into a classroom and hoping for the best.
We can work together before, during and after your placement so you feel clearer about what is expected of you and more confident putting your university learning into practice.
Build confidence in:
Behaviour management: Classroom routines and expectations, build your self confidence and authority. Teacher voice projection, standing and teacher position. Classroom management vs student management.
Lesson planning and delivery:Theory vs practical lesson.
Placement preparation: before you go on placement.
Professional communication and interaction: with staff, students and school members.
EXPLORE PRE-SERVICE SUPPORT and more...
Services for Graduate & Beginning Teachers
Starting your teaching career can be overwhelming. Grad2Teacher doesn't just start in the classroom, i have helped early gradautes before they teach. Get ready for interviews, land the job and get their professional evidence collected for thier full registeation.....
or if you have the job but not sure where to seek help in the school i provide personalised plans and task descriptions to
Support is tailored to you and can include behaviour management, lesson planning, curriculum delivery, differentiation, workload and organisation, parent communication, assessment.
Together, we work through real classroom challenges and develop practical strategies you can confidently implement in your teaching.
How Grad2teacher can help you
Package 1
Best for Preservice teachers or beginning teachers who need more reassurance.
Confidence and Reassurance
Starting out in teaching can feel like everyone else knows what they’re doing except you. This package gives you a supportive, confidence building routines and practical strategies you need to step into the classroom feeling more prepared.
Together, we’ll work on developing your teacher identity, establishing classroom expectations and routines, behaviour management strategies, knowing what to do when students don’t follow through, and understanding the support systems available within your school.
Support may include:
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Two video mentoring calls (depending what stage you're).
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Weekly contact with Bree through email or sms.
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Personalised weekly tasks descriptions to help you stay organised and prioritise key tasks.
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Given Behaviour management strategies that you can 'rinse and repeat' every lesson.
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Seating and classroom management approaches, school support systems,
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Confidence around teaching curriculum, and practical preparation for placement, interviews or your first teaching role.
This package is not about your lesson planning, more about the classroom control and behaviour management.
Price from $40 per hr.
Package 2
Best for 3rd or 4th Yr Preservice teachers, Early Graduates, Permission to teach teachers wanting Content assistance.
Early Career teachers
For beginning teachers who have found their feet but need more support with what and how they are teaching.
You’ve made it into the classroom. Now comes the next question:
“How do I actually teach this well?”
This package moves beyond the initial nerves and focuses on building confidence in your content, lesson planning and classroom delivery.
We’ll work through your lessons together so you understand not only what you need to teach, but how to turn curriculum and theory into something that works with real students.
Support may include:
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Three video mentoring calls (depending what stage you're).
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Weekly contact with Bree through email or sms.
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Behaviour management strategies for students who need additional redirection or class adjustments.
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Lesson planning and teaching structure, the I do → We do → You do teaching model. Including How to use cognitive verbs ( Higher vs Lower order thinkers) and transitions activities in the classroom.
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Key educational resource examples. This maybe useful for covers, modified students or formative task assessments.
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Practical versus theoretical learning. Your teaching style and lesson structure will be different depending on your subject.
Price from $50 per hr.
Package 3
Best for Early Graduates, Permission to teach or Teachers who're doing their Masters.
Personalised Teacher Mentoring
This is where teaching is much bigger than standing in front of a classroom.
There are lesson plans, adjustments, parents, meetings, administration, student and teacher wellbeing, NCCD requirements, curriculum expectations and a hundred little decisions nobody seems to warn you about.
This is Grad2Teacher’s most comprehensive mentoring option. We build a personalised support plan around your classroom, your students, your school environment and the areas you want to strengthen.
Support can extend across:
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Lesson plan or Unit review. feedback, editing and refinement with activity ideas.
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ACARA curriculum requirements, understanding curriculum content and writing your own Unit plans. With Achievement standards and content descriptors.
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Modifications and adjustments, differentiation, parent communication, including NCCD.
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Staff meetings, administration tasks
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Student wellbeing and the day-to-day situations you need someone experienced to talk through.
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Go through the importance of Teacher Wellbeing as well. Don't burnout before you even start.
It’s designed to give you somewhere to bring the questions that start with:
“This happened at school today… what do I do now?”
The original package concept included three video calls plus additional communication support, although I would define clear communication boundaries before publishing this rather than advertising unlimited 9–5 access.
Price from $60 per hr.