Qualifications you need to register and practise as a teacher in Victoria

This page provides you with the information and forms you need to apply for registration as a teacher in Victoria.

1. The Institute will grant registration to an applicant who possesses:

• Four years of approved tertiary study, including an approved course of primary or secondary teacher education

or

• An approved Certificate of Proficiency/Completion in a trade together with:
  - relevant industrial experience such that the period of apprenticeship and the industrial experience totals not less than eight years; and
  - an approved trade technician course or an approved equivalent program of post-apprenticeship studies; and
  - an approved course of teacher education

or    

• An approved Certificate of Technology, together with a minimum of six years of approved industrial experience and an approved course of secondary teacher education.

2. If the applicant does not meet the requirements of 1. above, but does have an approved course of primary or secondary teacher education, then in limited and extraordinary circumstances the Institute may register the applicant as a teacher.

3. Under the terms of the Mutual Recognition (Victoria) Act 1998 and the Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997, the Institute is required to register a person who is registered to practise as a teacher in any other participating State or Territory or in New Zealand.