Step 2 - Develop your practice

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Here’s what you need to do to develop your practice at Proficient Teacher, including engaging in professional activities and collecting evidence of your practice.

Engage in professional activities across the 3 domains

Develop your teaching practice through engaging in a range of professional activities across the 3 domains of teaching, including teaching experience, reflection and seeking guidance and feedback from colleagues.

Collect documentary evidence of your practice

Collect documentary evidence of your teaching practice as outlined in the relevant Proficient Teacher Evidence Guide.

The documentary evidence should be produced over time as a natural outcome of teaching and not be created for the specific purpose of accreditation.

Tips for documentary evidence

Your documentary evidence does not need to demonstrate all 37 Standard Descriptors, but it must collectively address at least one Standard Descriptor from each of the seven Proficient Teacher Standards.

If you are teaching across multiple schools, you can have your evidence authenticated by a Proficient Teacher in their NESA online account (eTAMS).

Engage in ongoing discussions with your Accreditation Supervisor as you collect evidence, engage in professional activities and reflect on your practice to:

Select 5-8 items of evidence from your collection

Each item of documentary evidence must address 2-4 Standard Descriptors for submission in your NESA online account (eTAMS).

Annotate your 5-8 items of evidence

Write the annotations for the selected items of documentary evidence in your NESA online account (eTAMS).

Complete an observation of your practice

Organise an observation of your teaching practice with your Accreditation Supervisor.

The observation needs to include the three phases of the observation: the planning, observing and reflecting. Where it is not possible for your Accreditation Supervisor to conduct the observation in-person you may arrange a virtual or recorded observation.

Upload observation report to eTAMS

Upload your Accreditation Supervisor’s observation report to your NESA online account (eTAMS).

Act on any feedback from your Accreditation Supervisor.

Next step

Finalise your application

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