Qualifications

Provisional and Full Registration

The prescribed qualification requirement for teacher registration in the ACT is a course of pre-service teacher education consisting of at least four years (full time or equivalent) of higher education study including an accredited pre-service (initial) teacher education program or an accredited graduate pre-service teacher education program.

It could be a four year initial teacher education program (for example Bachelor of Education) or a combination of undergraduate and graduate study leading to a recognised school teaching qualification as outlined below:

an academic degree (or equivalent diploma) consisting of at least three years (full time or equivalent) together with another recognised course of at least one year (full-time or equivalent) initial primary and/or secondary teacher education (for example Diploma in Education/Teaching, Graduate Entry Bachelor of Education or Master of Teaching),
a four year (full-time or equivalent) Bachelor of Primary Education, Bachelor of Education Early Childhood and Primary or Bachelor of Secondary Education or primary or secondary teaching double degree (for example Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Teaching - Primary or Secondary)
A two or three year (full-time or equivalent) post-Year 12 initial course of primary or secondary teacher education, e.g. a Trained Teachers Certificate or Diploma of Teaching, together with further recognised awarded higher education qualifications to a total combination of four or more years (full -time equivalent).

Early Childhood Teacher Registration

The prescribed qualification requirement for early childhood teacher registration in the ACT is an ACECQA approved ECT level qualification or an accredited pre-service (initial) teacher education program in a birth-5, birth-8 or birth-12 program (for example Bachelor of Education Early Childhood and Primary).

Applicants holding accredited initial teacher education (ITE) early childhood (birth-5, birth-8 or birth-12) teacher qualifications may choose to apply for either early childhood teacher or provisional registration categories.

TQI recognises qualifications awarded by:

an Australian accredited higher education provider
an initial teacher education program accredited by any Australian teacher regulatory authority, or equivalent* overseas higher education and initial teacher

*Qualifications awarded by institutions outside Australia will be accepted if they are assessed as equivalent under the ACT Teacher Quality Institute Qualifications Policy .

Academic Transcripts and Professional Experience

As part of your studies, you must have completed professional experience or supervised practice teaching in a school.

The official final academic transcript/s must include:

the course requirements and the date of completion, and
the completion of four years of full time (or the equivalent part time) higher education study, including at least one year of an accredited teacher education program.
the number of professional experience or supervised practice teaching days*

If you have completed qualifications at an Australian or New Zealand university that provides transcripts online through My eQuals you can share these with TQI.

*If they do not include this information, other evidence showing the program's practice teaching requirements must be included. These will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants who already hold current registration in another State or Territory in Australia or in New Zealand who are applying under mutual recognition provisions do not need to include this evidence.