Teacher education
The Teacher Registration Board has a statutory responsibility under the Teacher Registration (Northern Territory) Act to ensure that only persons who are fit and proper, and who are appropriately qualified, are employed as teachers in the Northern Territory.
The Act makes provision for the Board to fulfil this responsibility in a number of ways, including through involvement in preservice teacher education. The Act requires the Board to accredit teacher education courses in relation to standards, to assess the relevance of courses to the teaching profession in the Territory and to make recommendations to the Minister for Education and Training in relation to the minimum qualifications and other requirements for registration.
Currently the Board uses the standards, guidelines and processes for the approval of preservice teacher education programs (pdf 160 kb | rtf 4.9 mb)
Over the coming months, the Board will adopt the national Accreditation of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and procedures
Charles Darwin University
The following courses were recommended to the Minister in June 2010.
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning Early Childhood (approved until 2014)
- Bachelor of Early Childhood Learning (approved until 2014)
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning Inservice (Early Childhood) (approved until 2014)
The following courses were recommended to the Minister in September 2007 and are approved until December 2012.
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning (Inservice)
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning/Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning/Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning/Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning/Bachelor Creative Arts
- Bachelor of Teaching and Learning/Bachelor of Applied Science
The following program was recommended to the Minister in November 2006 and is approved until December 2014.
- Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning
A limited review of the Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning will be undertaken in the latter half of 2011 in order to satisfy the Board that graduates of this program continue to be eligible for teacher registration in the NT.
The following courses were extant at the time the Teacher Registration (Northern Territory) Act was passed in 2004, and therefore were deemed suitable for the purposes of registration but have not been formally assessed.
- Bachelor of Education (Preservice)
- Bachelor of Education (Graduate Entry)
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Primary Strand)
- Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Education (Primary Strand)
- Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education (Primary Strand)
- Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education
- Bachelor of Secondary Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Secondary Strand)
- Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Education (Secondary Strand)
- Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education (Secondary Strand)
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
The following courses were extant at the time the Teacher Registration (Northern Territory) Act was passed in 2004, and therefore were deemed suitable for the purposes of registration but have not been formally assessed.
- Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) 2004-2007
- Bachelor of Education (Primary) 2004-2007
The Institute introduced two new courses which were recommended to the Minister in June 2011
- Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) (approved until December 2013)
- Bachelor of Education (Primary) (approved until December 2013)