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      • Confirm my teachers' registration status
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      • Teaching learners from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds
      • Teaching learners from culturally diverse and refugee backgrounds
      • Inclusive education
      • Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
      • Illustrations of early childhood teacher practice
    • Qualifications and other prerequisites for new teachers
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      • What qualifications do I need to become a teacher?
        • What qualifications do I need to become a teacher?
        • In a school setting
        • In an early childhood service
      • Overseas qualifications
      • Providing evidence of qualifications
      • Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education
      • English language competency
    • Education for those who wish to become teachers
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      • Initial teacher education programs
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      • Codes of Conduct and Ethics
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        • What types of impairments does VIT investigate
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