Wondering How To Sign Off On Teacher Registration? Tips For Principals.

How To Sign Off On Teacher Registration

If you’re a principal, you already know that signing off an Early Career Teacher’s folio for full teacher registration is more than a formality, it’s a professional judgement call with real accountability. It’s also highly important to ensure your early career teacher has completed their folio correctly so that you can continue to employ them and retain them on staff.

However, some issues can arise during this process. One of the most common challenges principals face is knowing if a folio actually meets the standards and another can be simply not having the time to support or mentor your teacher/s as they complete this large piece of work.

Mentoring

At Guides On The Side, we provide Early Career Teaching Mentoring — and one of the main topics we can support ECTs with is the teacher registration portfolio process. This mentoring allows principals to know that their teacher is getting the support they need to correctly meet the standards of their registration, while freeing up their time to focus on all the other demands of running a school. The ECT mentoring packages we provide are $250/session or $800/ for 4 sessions across a year, to support teachers at this critical moment.

5 Things to Consider For Teacher Registration Portfolios

When reviewing an Early Career Teacher’s submission for teacher registration, here are three simple downloads that may help:

#1 Common mistakes and how to avoid them

#2 How to tell the difference between graduate and proficient teaching

#3 Things to consider for teacher registration portfolios

For more information about Guides On The Side mentoring for early career teachers, get in touch with us to set up a principal consultation session.

We also offer the Meet The Standards comprehensive resource for Early Career Teachers which includes extensive examples of evidence, reflections and folio presentation to help make the process as smooth as possible.