In the final 3 months of your maintenance period, you must submit a completed HALT Maintenance of Accreditation Form (PDF 197.94KB). You submit the form to your principal, service director, or employer. They will use your form to verify that your practice aligns with the relevant HALT Standards.
In your form you must declare and sign that you have:
Complete your part of the form and email it to your principal, service director or employer for their verification.
They will verify either that:
Your principal, service director, or employer must email the completed and signed form to NESA to HALenquiry@nesa.nsw.edu.au. This must be done by the end of your current maintenance period for NESA to make an accreditation decision.
Your principal, service director, or employer may raise concerns about your ability to meet HALT maintenance requirements. Understand what to do in the following situations.
At any time during your maintenance period, if your principal, service director, or employer identifies an issue with your practice not meeting the Standards at HALT, they must inform you (and your employer, where relevant) in writing within 28 days.
Work with your principal, service director, or employer to resolve the issue(s) they have identified.
Your principal, service director, or employer must tell NESA if, after giving you support and going through a formal performance process, it’s decided that your practice does not meet the Standards for Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher.
You can apply to NESA for an extension (PDF 223.05KB) to your timeframe in certain circumstances.
You may do this in the final 6 months before your due date. You will need to provide evidence of the grounds for your extension request. Grounds for an extension include:
If you have worked at the school, service, or with the employer for less than 3 months your principal, service director, or employer must contact your previous school, service, or employer (with your permission) before verifying that you have not maintained the Standards at Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher.
Your principal, service director, or employer will provide a written notification outlining the reason(s) and any Standard Descriptors have not met. You have the right to respond in writing within 28 days to address the issues identified.
Your principal, service director, or employer will review your response and make a verification to NESA.
If your principal, service director, or employer verifies that your practice does not meet the Standards at the relevant career level of HALT, we will:
In limited circumstances, your principal, service director, or employer will advise NESA that they cannot make a verification about your HALT accreditation.
These circumstances are:
If you have worked at the school, service, or workplace for less than 3 months, your principal, service director, or employer must contact your previous school, service, or workplace (with your permission) before recording that they are unable to verify your practice.
If you do not give consent for your principal, service director, or employer to contact your previous principal, service director, or workplace, they will likely be unable to make a verification.
What will happen:
If you are close to, or have reached, the end of your maximum timeframe you may have grounds to apply to NESA for an extension (PDF 223.05KB).
You can return to Proficient Teacher level at any stage. Lead Teachers may also nominate to return to Highly Accomplished if they were previously accredited at this level. To do so you must advise NESA in writing.
Your maintenance period end date will not change if you return to your previous level of accreditation. You must continue to meet the maintenance of accreditation requirements for your new level.
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