Progressing from Provisional to Full Registration
The QCT's new policy on moving from provisional to full registration came into effect from 1 July 2007. A new recommendation report form has been developed.
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 or 1000 hours) and meet the Professional Standards for Queensland Teachers. 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.
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.
The QCT has also developed a Provisional Registration Fact Sheet that 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 or 1000 hours) 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 have been developed 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 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 Recommendation Report it should be submitted to the QCT via fax 3876 7248, or alternatively post to PO Box 389, Toowong QLD 4066.
*If applicant is not teaching in a school, the form must be completed by the person in an equivalent position to a principal and who must be a fully registered teacher.
Online Presentation and Workshop
An online presentation and workshop, Towards Full Registration: The Professional Standards for Queensland Teachers and You is also available to support provisionally registered teachers in the process.
` A teacher is not something one becomes but rather something one is constantly becoming.’
[Darling-Hammond: 2006]