This site offers some information which will assist teachers seeking Accreditation at Proficient. Please review the NESA site for more detailed information about accreditation and/or liaise with the nominated supervisor in your school to situate the process in your immediate context. 

You will need to have completed 160 days of teaching, including a substantial block (6-10 weeks is suggested) in one school before submitting your accreditation. Your evidence can be a collation of material from a range of school contexts but must be work which reflects your practice.

The following steps outline a summary of the process, but this needs to be actioned within the context of your school setting and guided by your nominated supervisor(s). The steps are a guide only and assume you have sought approval to seek accreditation in a specific school context.

NB: Specific advice re the steps required to achieve accreditation are provided by NESA @ Proficient teacher accreditation.

Steps in seeking accreditation

1. Keep a copy of all work you produce as part of your everyday practice. The lid of a photocopy paper box is suitable.

2. Ask for a lesson observation as you will need one as part of your evidence collation and/or assessment by a supervisor. This will usually be built into the school structure anyway. Do this after you have completed a substantial amount of teaching. 

3. Once you have collected a range of work samples, start to map standard descriptors to each of your work samples (evidence).

4. Annotate each piece of evidence to show how it reflects the standard descriptors chosen. Your annotation should offer some context to frame the evidence for the reader; help build the story of your practice. Your annotation can be a mximum of 3000 characters

7. Remember, if you are conditionally accredited you will need to provide your final academic transcripts with your evidence.

8. Your final submission is completed via the NESA online platform - eTAMS.  (As a guide, keep your evidence to roughly no more than 35 single-sided pages in total.) The focus is on a quality snapshot, not the production of a large portfolio. Each item of annotated documentary evidence that a teacher submits to finalise accreditation, via the online platform, must not exceed 10MB in size. 

9. At PHS, we currently expect teachers seeking accreditation to use Google workspace to collate their evidence and annotations. Each evidence set is collated as a pdf document and each anotation is completed as a Google doc. This allows amendments to be identified and addressed more efficiently. One of the HT T and L will assist you with this part of the process.

10. Inform the nominated senior executive member who oversees accreditation  that your evidence and annotations are ready for review. They will review your documentation and offer feedback. 

10. Upload your evidence and annotations to eTAMS once you have liaised with the school school mentor/ senior executive supervisor.