Provisional Registration

Produced by the Standards
and Professional Learning
Branch, Victorian Institute
of Teaching.

The Victorian Institute of Teaching registers all teachers who seek to practice in Victorian schools. All graduating teachers are granted provisional registration for a period of 12 months, with the capacity to extend that registration for a further 12 months.

This period of provisional registration provides teachers entering the profession with time to consolidate and develop their professional knowledge and skills in independent practice.

Supporting new teachers as they join the profession is essential for enhancing the quality and strength of teaching practice and for renewal and capacity building within the teaching profession. By providing a formal and structured induction process across the profession, the Institute can provide the support new teachers should have to consolidate their professional learning and develop sound professional practice.

Provisionally registered teachers are required to demonstrate to the Institute that their professional practice meets the Standards of Professional Practice for Full Registration, within this two year period.

The Standards of Professional Practice for Full Registration define in eight standards what the teaching profession believes all teachers should know and be able to do. These standards must be achieved before full registration can be granted.

Through this two-step process of awarding full registration the Institute can provide an assurance to all members of the profession and the community that teachers who are fully registered have the knowledge, skills and commitment required to meet the standards of professional practice expected of and set by the profession.

Obtaining Full Registration

The Institute requires all provisionally registered teachers, to undertake an evidence-based process to demonstrate that their practice meets or exceeds the eight standards required for full registration.

The process includes the preparation of Evidence of Professional Practice with three components:

Evidence Component		What is involved?
1. An Analysis of Teaching and Learning,		Approximately 6 pages of planning information and reflection, accompanied by attachments and student work samples
2. Collegiate Classroom Activities,		Records from at least three collaborative classroom activities, completed throughout the year.
3. A Commentary on Professional Activities.		A list of professional activities undertaken throughout the year together with a commentary on professional learning arising from three of the listed activities.

The evidence will normally be presented to and assessed by a school-based panel. This will maximise the benefits of professional learning within the school, and provide an opportunity to affirm sound professional practice within a teacher’s own professional community.

Timeframe for completing the process

All graduating teachers are granted provisional registration for an initial period of 12 months. The majority of provisionally registered teachers will be able to complete this evidence based process within this time.

School-based panels are most likely to be formed to discuss and assess the evidence in Terms 3 or 4, although the process can be completed following 80 days of teaching practice.

There is also a capacity to extend the period of provisional registration, providing a further 12 months in which to complete this process, if additional time is needed.