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 liaise with institutions providing 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 Employment, Education and Training in relation to the minimum qualifications and other requirements for registration.
Comments on the following draft which guide this Board’s process are welcome.
The standards, guidelines and process for the approval of preservice teacher education programs (pdf 93 kb)
Charles Darwin University
The following courses were recommended to the Minister in September 2007
- 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
The following program was recommended to the Minister in November 2006
- Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning
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
In 2008 the Institute introduced two new courses
- Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) 2008
- Bachelor of Education (Primary) 2008
The new courses have been submitted to the Board and are being assessed.