If you’re interested in accessing resources to support registration, guide professional learning, and improve teaching practice, AITSL has compiled helpful resources on this webpage.

These resources can help early childhood teachers, leaders and employers to:

  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia
Teacher Regulatory Authority

ACT Teacher Quality Institute (ACT TQI)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Early childhood teacher registration:
    • FAQs
    • Information sessions
Teacher Regulatory Authority

NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Proficient teacher evidence guide for teachers working in K-12 schools and early childhood services
  • Early childhood evidence guide: Highly Accomplished Teacher
  • Early childhood evidence guide: Lead Teacher
  • Effective documentary evidence - Early childhood item
  • Support a teacher: Employers
Teacher Regulatory Authority

Teacher Registration Board of the Northern Territory (TRB NT)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Proficient teacher evidence guide: Early childhood teachers
Teacher Regulatory Authority

Queensland College of Teachers (QCT)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Transition to full registration: An evidence guide for early childhood teachers
  • Early childhood education and care services (access to workshop recording)
Teacher Regulatory Authority

Teachers Registration Board of South Australia (TRB SA)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Transition from provisional to full registration: Modified process
  • Application for teacher registration: Guidelines booklet
Teacher Regulatory Authority

Teachers Registration Board of Tasmania (TRB Tasmania)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Eligibility for registration
Teacher Regulatory Authority

Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Early childhood teacher evidence guide
  • Provisionally registered teachers (PRT) guide: Moving from provisional to full registration
  • PRT guide for casual relief and non-school setting teachers
  • PRT seminars
  • Workplace panel guide
  • Mentor guide
  • Teacher mentoring programs
  • Australian Professional Standards for Teachers – VIT version
Teacher Regulatory Authority

Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia (TRB WA)

Resources provided by the authority include:
  • Professional Standards for Teaching in Western Australia
  • Transition to Full Registration: Guide to Evidencing the Professional Standards
  • Professional Standards: Direct Assessment of Evidence – Information for Applicants
  • Professional Standards Policy

Resources

Early childhood teachers, leaders and employers can download the resources below to understand how the Teacher Standards work for them and how they fit with the NQS and EYLF.

Fact sheet

The Teacher Standards provide a consistent, nationally accepted definition of what quality teaching looks like. This fact sheet provides information on how early childhood teachers, leaders and employers can benefit from using the Teacher Standards to support quality teaching practice and create opportunities for local networking.
Download Fact Sheet (PDF)

Mapping tool

Early childhood experiences play a vital role in children’s learning and development which underscores the importance of early childhood settings providing quality teaching and learning. This resource explains how the Teacher Standards links with the NQS and EYLF to support the quality of early childhood teaching, learning and practice. Early childhood teachers, leaders and employers can use this tool to understand how the Teacher Standards align with the work of early childhood teachers.
Download Mapping tool (PDF)

Applying the Teacher Standards

AITSL’s Illustrations of Practice videos bring the Teacher Standards to life showcasing teachers in action by demonstrating a range of effective teaching practices across educational settings.

Early childhood teachers, leaders and employers can use the Illustrations of Practice videos as professional learning. The accompanying discussion questions can help to facilitate conversations on teaching practice and guide reflections for ongoing improvement against the Teacher Standards.

For Teachers

A primary school teacher in a pre-primary/prep and year 1 room sits with two learners. One learner is using blocks in a learning task, whilst the other is sitting across from the teacher.
Focus Area

Using a range of teaching strategies to suit the capabilities of all learners

In this video, a primary school teacher working in a pre-primary/prep and year 1 room supports students to undertake different kinds of mathematical tasks. The teacher demonstrates their ability to select from a flexible and effective repertoire of teacher strategies to suit the capabilities of the learners.
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A close-up of a learner’s hands building 3D shape models.
Focus Area

Establishing a program inclusive of learners with disability

In this video, set in a 4-year-old room at a long day care and kindergarten centre, an early childhood teacher designs and implements teaching activities that support the learning and participation of a child with disability in the ECEC service.
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A close-up of learner alongside their teacher.
Focus Area

Using engaging teaching strategies to help students apply knowledge of content

In this video, an early childhood teacher at a rural stand-alone kindergarten/preschool demonstrates their ability to apply knowledge and understanding of effective teaching strategies to support their learners’ literacy achievements.
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A young learner uses a tablet device with assistance from an educator.
Focus Area

Setting expectations for using ICT

In this video, an early childhood teacher at a long day care centre explains how they effectively integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into their program.
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Three young learners are gathered around a secondary school student who is reading with them.
Focus Area

Embracing community partnerships to improve literacy

In this video, an early childhood teacher at a rural stand-alone kindergarten/preschool demonstrates how they establish and maintain respectful collaborative relationships with parents/carers regarding their children’s learning and wellbeing.
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A teacher works with two young learners to review their understanding of the life cycle of butterflies.
Focus Area

Ongoing informal assessment in practice

In this video, a team of early childhood teachers at a metropolitan stand-alone kindergarten/preschool demonstrates their ability to develop, select and use informal assessment strategies to assess learning.
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A teacher works with a young learner in the foreground, with another educator watching them in the background.
Focus Area

Using different questioning styles to engage learners

In this video, an early childhood teacher at a metropolitan stand-alone kindergarten/preschool demonstrates their ability to apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging learning activities.
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A teacher reading a young learner spelling.
Focus Area

Setting explicit, challenging, and achievable learning goals for all learners

In this video, a primary school teacher working with 5 and 6-year-olds demonstrates their ability to plan and implement well-structured programs that engage and promote learning.
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Two teachers sit on the floor in a circle with 10 young learners in a pre-primary/preschool learning environment. They are engaging in an activity using toy pizzas.
Focus Area

Embracing food, culture, and community in early years education

In this video, an early childhood teacher working in a stand-alone kindergarten/preschool centre demonstrate their ability to refer to the EYLF when planning and implementing teaching whilst providing opportunities for children to demonstrate their learning.
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For Leaders and Employers

Growth-focused teaching practice in early childhood settings (AITSL)

In this case study, 3 early childhood teachers share examples of growth-focused teaching evaluations to improve teacher practice, suitable to the needs of their learners and their context.
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The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA): Educational Leadership

This webpage includes resources on the role, requirements, and responsibilities of an educational leader.
Visit ACECQA's site

ACECQA: Supporting performance and the development of professionals

This information sheet supports the performance and development of professionals and provides practical advice for employers and service leaders in ensuring their staff have clearly defined roles and responsibilities, performance is regularly evaluated, and individualised learning and development plans are in place.
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ACECQA: Educational leadership and team building

This information sheet supports educational leadership and team building and provides employers and service leaders with practical ideas and considerations for leading the development of the curriculum at their service.
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ACECQA: Practical ideas to support continuous quality improvement

This information sheet provides practical ideas for approved providers, service leaders, teachers, and educators to support continuous quality improvement.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Further resources

Teacher Standards Glossary

A glossary for early childhood teachers to further understand the Teacher Standards.
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Spotlight: Celebrating Early Childhood Teachers

AITSL’s research report that highlights the value of early childhood teachers in Australia.
Read online

Connecting early childhood teachers to high-quality professional learning

AITSL’s quick guide offering strategies to improve access to effective professional learning for early childhood teachers and leaders.
Learn more

In Focus: Early Childhood Teachers

This edition of In Focus presents new data on the career lifecycle of registered early childhood teachers and early childhood/primary qualified teachers in Australia, from the beginning of their teaching journey through initial teacher education (ITE), to their experiences in the teacher workforce, and their future career intentions.
Explore the research

In Brief: Early Childhood Teachers

This edition of In Brief presents a summary of the In Focus: Early Childhood Teachers.
Explore the research

Early Childhood Teaching Performance Assessments

This fact sheet provides information on how Teaching Performance Assessments (TPAs) can be undertaken in early childhood settings. A TPA is an assessment of students in their final years of their bachelor-level or above Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program.
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