With this specific teaching context, you will need to first contact VIT to verify whether you can use your practice within this setting to undertake the full registration process.

In general, the workplace should provide PRTs with the opportunity to teach learners and an experienced colleague or trained VIT mentor to work with you. The work you undertake must allow you to evidence the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) at the proficient teacher level and must also provide opportunities for PRTs to

• deliver an approved curriculum 
• individually assess student learning against the approved curriculum
• plan for learning against the approved curriculum
• provide feedback on learning to students both formally and informally
• report this progress (informally and formally) to parents / carers
• demonstrates clear understanding of the legal obligations pertaining to registered teachers and strategies to ensure a safe and inclusive learning environment
• be able to demonstrate all 37 descriptors of the APST at the proficient standard
• be able to undertake all of the compulsory requirements of VIT’s Inquiry process to demonstrate proficiency of practice.

If you are working within these frameworks and the education leader of the non-school setting (who needs to be a VIT registered teacher) can verify this, then you can use this practice as teaching practice.

Examples of non-school settings where approved curriculum is taught may include the Melbourne Zoo, Royal Children’s Hospital, TAFE institutions offering the VCAL or VET programs (if they are teaching school aged students).

You must contact VIT to verify whether you can use this practice first before commencing the process.