Teacher Registration in South Australia

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• Teacher Registration in South Australia

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Outline of the session

• What is Teacher Registration all about?
• What are the functions of the Teachers
  Registration Board?
• The Board is a Statutory Authority What does
  this mean?
• Registration
• Contact details for the TRB
• Questions

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• Either think of a teacher who you regarded highly
  as a teacher (from when you were in pre-school,
  primary or secondary school) or think of the
  teacher you would like to teach your own
  children.

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• Take a moment to think
• A) What are their stand out attributes/qualities
  as a person?
• B) Which of their professional teacher
  attributes/qualities do you regard highly?

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What is Teacher Registration all about?

• Establish and maintain a teacher
  registration system and professional standards
  for teachers to safeguard the public interest in
  there being a teaching profession whose members
  are competent educators and fit and proper
  persons to have the care of children.
• Object of the Teachers Registration and
  Standards Act 2004

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What are the functions of the Teachers
Registration Board?
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• (a) Administer provisions of the Teachers
  Registration and Standards Act 2004 and the
  Teachers Registration and Standards Regulations
  2005

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• (b) Promote the teaching profession and
  professional standards for teachers

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• (c) Confer and collaborate with teacher
  education institutions with respect to the
  appropriateness for registration purposes of
  teacher education courses

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• (d) Confer and collaborate with teacher
  employers, the teaching profession, teacher
  unions or other organisations and other bodies
  and persons with respect to requirements for
  teacher registration and professional and other
  standards for teachers

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Code of Ethics
(b) Continued The Code of Ethics articulates the
three core values South Australian teachers
highlighted as underpinning the teaching
profession in South Australia integrity, respect
and responsibility. The Code is not intended as
an instrument of compliance but as a framework to
assist teachers to reflect on decision-making and
ethical issues.
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Teaching Standards for Registration

• (b) continued 3 Core Principles 9
  Standards
• Professional Relationships Professional
  Knowledge Professional Practice

1. Professional Collegial Learning 2. Learner Respect 3. Parent/caregiver Community Partnerships
4. Learning Processes 5. Learning Content 6. Learner Context
7. Planning Teaching 8. Feedback Reporting 9. Learning Environment
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• (e) Confer and collaborate with other teacher
  regulatory authorities to ensure effective
  national exchange of information and promote
  uniformity and consistency in the regulation of
  the teaching profession within Australia and New
  Zealand

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• (f) Keep the teaching profession, professional
  standards for teachers and other measures for the
  regulation of the profession under review and
  introduce change or provide advice to the
  Minister as appropriate.

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The Board is a Statutory Authority What does
this mean?
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• Independent Statutory Authority

• Responsible for the registration of all
  teachers in South Australia
• The TRB remains independent of all employers of
  teachers
• Not affiliated with DECS, Catholic Education or
  Independent Schools
• Important to remember when changing contact
  details an employer does not forward this
  information to the Boards office.

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Membership of the Board

• 16 members appointed by the Governor
• Not less than half must be registered teachers
• Independent Chairperson nominated by the Minister
• Tertiary Sector (1) Legal (1) Parent (1)
• Employers of teachers DECS (3) Independent
  sector (AISSA) (1) Catholic sector (1)
• AEU (5 elected reps) IEU (2)
• All nominees are appointed and gazetted

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Registration

• Requirement to be Registered for all who
  undertake employment as a teacher, principal,
  director at a pre-school, school or recognised
  kindergarten
• Gain Entry To The Register of Teachers
  (Provisional Registration) must meet 4 year
  qualifications, professional standards, fitness
  and propriety mandatory notification
  eligibility requirements to be registered for up
  to three years
• Change of Registered Status from Provisional
  Registration to Registered Status application
  upon satisfactory completion of 1 year (200
  teaching days) in Australia or New Zealand
• Continuing Registration On application to renew
  teacher registration every three years, teachers
  must satisfy the Board that they meet
  professional standards and all other requirements
  including fitness and propriety and Mandatory
  Notification Training requirements.

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Urgent Registration preparation

• Evidence of English language proficiency -
  requirements as of 1 March 2011
• Overseas Criminal History Checks -
• Proof of Identity full birth certificate
• Overseas qualifications assessment of
  qualifications before application for
  registration
• Translation of documents into English
• Fitness and Propriety Declarations
• Registration Fees on application

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Lodging an Application

• Be prepared
• Any matters which require forward planning
  attend to soon
• Lodge your application for registration as a
  teacher
• EARLY, well before the completion of your
  program as the process can take time
• There is no closing date.

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• For assistance contact the Boards office
• Teachers Registration Board of S.A.
• Postal Address PO Box 3649 Rundle Mall
• Office Level 6, 70 Pirie StreetAdelaide SA
  5000
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email info_at_trb.sa.edu.au
• Web www.trb.sa.edu.au

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