Support a teacher maintaining Proficient Teacher accreditation

Support teachers to meet their professional development requirements

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Your professional development requirements have changed

Effective from 16 August 2024 the professional development (PD) requirements for teachers maintaining Proficient, Highly Accomplished and Lead Teacher accreditation have been changed.

NESA has removed the Accredited and Elective PD categories to give teachers more flexibility in completing their required 100 hours of PD.

NESA is currently re-developing eTAMS to reflect these changes. You can continue to log PD in eTAMS or offline and submit your maintenance of accreditation when due and once you complete 100 hours of PD. All PD activities already logged will count towards your required PD hours.

Find out more about these changes and watch our video for more information.

PD supports continual growth

Access to quality PD opportunities is key for a teacher’s professional growth and maintenance of accreditation.

Through ongoing PD activities, teachers update their knowledge and skills in:

pedagogy
curriculum
learning and assessment
wellbeing and safety.

This allows teachers to have the greatest impact on improving student/child learning.

PD requirements

Teachers accredited at Proficient Teacher or above must complete a minimum of 100 hours of PD within their maintenance period.

Teachers are required to record their PD and retain their record for 12 months after they finalise their maintenance of accreditation, but you are not required to monitor their PD record. It is the teacher’s responsibility to keep a record of any PD that they complete.

Priority areas for professional development

While no longer mandatory, priority areas remain important areas of teaching and learning.

The 5 priority areas are:

delivery and assessment of NSW Curriculum/Early Years Learning Framework
student/child mental health
students/children with disability
Aboriginal education and supporting Aboriginal students/children
leadership to support the learning outcomes of students and children.

Employers may choose areas of priority for their staff, but these decisions are made at a school/early childhood service and system level. Employers are responsible for the content and quality of PD for their staff where they determine a priority.

Resources

Use our video and presentation (PDF 177.86KB) to help unpack the recent changes to professional development.

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