Accreditation Supervisors

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As an Accreditation Supervisor, you play an important role in supporting teachers to develop their practice to achieve Proficient Teacher accreditation. An Accreditation Supervisor is a teacher accredited at Proficient Teacher level or above.

Proficient Teacher Accreditation Report changes

Accreditation Supervisors no longer need to complete a Proficient Teacher Accreditation Report as part of a teacher’s application for Proficient Teacher.

Accreditation Supervisors now declare whether a teacher’s practice meets the Standards for Proficient Teacher. More information is available in the Applying for Proficient Teacher procedure.

Role and responsibilities of Accreditation Supervisors

Accreditation Supervisors support provisionally or conditionally accredited teachers to develop their practice - aligned with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (the Standards) at Proficient Teacher.

You’ll help guide teachers through the accreditation process by:

  • providing teachers with adequate supervision, advice, ongoing feedback and support during their accreditation period.
  • informing teachers of any Standard Descriptors they have not met, if applicable, and provide teachers with advice on how to address them.
  • supporting teachers to finalise their accreditation at Proficient Teacher in line with the requirements set out in Section 4.4 of the TA Manual including:
    • determining when a valid and reliable judgement can be made
    • providing a report on an observation of the teacher’s practice
    • assisting the teacher to select and annotate evidence
    • confirming that the teacher’s annotated documentary evidence addresses the identified Standard Descriptors.
  • advising the teacher and the principal in writing of any issue(s) with a teacher’s practice that may impact on the Proficient Teacher accreditation recommendation within 28 days.
  • completing the declaration for accreditation in their NESA online account (eTAMS) in line with Section 4.4.4 of the TA Manual.

Proficient Teacher accreditation information for Accreditation Supervisors gives detailed step by step guidance to help you support teachers.

Early childhood Accreditation Supervisors

The NSW Teacher Accreditation Manual (the TA Manual) is being implemented in stages.

Interim procedures on how you can support a teacher to apply for Proficient Teacher accreditation are available until the TA Manual comes into full effect during 2024.

How to become an Accreditation Supervisor

Your principal will nominate you to be an Accreditation Supervisor.

An Accreditation Supervisor must be accredited at Proficient Teacher or above. An accredited teacher at Proficient Teacher or above who is on a Leave of Absence or accredited as Non-practising may be appointed as an Accreditation Supervisor if there is no one else available.

Accept your role in eTAMS

Once you have been nominated, you will see an ‘Accreditation Supervisor’ dashboard in your NESA online account (eTAMS). When you are allocated a teacher, this will appear in your dashboard as a task.

When you accept the task in your NESA online account (eTAMS) the teacher will be notified.

Complete NESA training

We strongly recommend you complete NESA’s online course for Accreditation Supervisors to learn more about your role and responsibilities as an Accreditation Supervisor, and to access guides and resources to help you.

We also recommend you complete NESA’s online course Making Consistent Proficient Teacher Accreditation Decisions to learn more about the characteristics of effective documentary evidence to support you making judgements about a teacher’s documentary evidence.

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