Queensland College of Teachers

Progressing from Provisional to Full Registration

To obtain full registration, a provisionally registered teacher must teach satisfactorily in a school or another acceptable setting for one year (defined as 200 days) and meet the Professional Standards for Queensland Teachers.

Classroom teaching experience in a prescribed school in Queensland, or a recognised school in another Australian state or territory, or in New Zealand is acceptable.

The required minimum teaching experience of one year does not have to be completed in one school or within one year and may include a number of individual days as well as continuous teaching experience.

The QCT has developed policy on moving from provisional to full registration and a recommendation report form.

Teachers who have conditions on their provisional registration (e.g. to undertake additional studies) will also need to meet these conditions in order to gain full registration.

A Provisional Registration Fact Sheet provides an overview of the process for moving from provisional to full registration.

What do provisionally-registered teachers need to do?

• Become familiar with the Professional Standards for Queensland Teachers as the culminating judgement is against these.
• Inform their Principal of their provisionally registered status and interest in making the transition to full registration. 
• Participate in all aspects of the induction process offered by the school and actively engage in reflection on practice.
• Complete the one year (200 days) of teaching as a minimum requirement.
• Select examples of practice that demonstrate to the Principal their achievement of the Standards. 
• A range of Optional Tools is available to assist provisionally registered teachers in reflecting on their teaching and in selecting examples of practice.

Application for Full Registration

For provisionally registered teachers to gain full registration requires the Principal* to make a recommendation to the QCT through the completion of the Provisional to Full Registration Recommendation Report.  

Consideration of this recommendation includes a review against each of the ten Standards based on evidence and examples of practice, as well as the assurance that all other requirements have been met (eg. the required amount of teaching experience).

Once the Principal* has completed the Provisional to Full Registration Recommendation Report it should be submitted to the QCT via fax 3876 7248, or alternatively post to PO Box 389, Toowong QLD 4066.

If you are not teaching in a school, please note some settings require approval by the QCT before the commencement of your teaching experience - see Acceptable Teaching Experience.  

*If you are teaching in an approved setting other than a school, the form must be completed by a person in an equivalent position to a principal and who must be a fully registered teacher.

 

 

` A teacher is not something one becomes but rather something one is constantly becoming.’

 [Darling-Hammond: 2006]

 

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