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Your teaching career - a guide to provisional registration
If you have recently graduated or are about to graduate from your initial teacher education (ITE) programme, congratulations. This is a big achievement!
To help you navigate your first few years as a teacher, we've developed a one-stop resource designed to answer all your burning questions about applying for provisional registration, induction and mentoring programmes, the Registered Teacher Criteria and moving to full registration.
To access this resource click on the link below:
Your teaching career - a guide to provisional registration
Finding a teaching position
ITE graduates must seek their own teaching position by applying to the employing body or professional leader of the school, kura or early childhood education service. Some useful information can be found in the section for Registered Teachers: Finding employment as a teacher in New Zealand.
It is also important that you ensure that the employment position you are to be appointed to will enable you to meet the registration criteria. Your position needs to:
- be a teaching position in the general education system, or a setting approved for gaining full registration
- have responsibility for teaching and learning cycles of 10 weeks or more
- have ongoing responsibility for assessing and planning for learning for a group of learners
- be a half time teaching position or more (employed for a minimum 12.5 hours per week)
Other factors to consider are that:
- your employment includes an established appraisal process against the Registered Teacher Criteria
- your employer provides an induction and mentoring programme for beginning teachers
- your employer supports ongoing professional development for teachers with an established and transparent policy as to how this is allocated and resourced.