emollart1

Hi I am looking for some advice please.. I am a primary school teacher qualified to teach 5-11 year olds in the UK. I have a 3 year BA honours and a 1 year PGCE. I have completed my NQT induction year. I believe from reading another forum that these qualifications are enough to supply teach whilst I travel in Australia?!

The places I really want to visit are Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns and Perth. I am flexible about how long I spend in each place and would be willing to move around to anywhere there is more demand for casual teaching work.

Can anybody tell me if supply teaching works the same as it does in the UK in Australia and what the necessary requirements are.. Visa, DBS (or equivalent of) is there anything else I need? Has anybody done this before? Could you recommend a good agency that covers most areas of Australia?!

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thankyou EM

goldchoccycoin

I believe (but I am not a teacher) that you need to be registered by the individual State teaching authority to work in each state - they are autonomous in some ways (more like the US than the UK in that different states have different requirements) and love a good amount of red tape.

Might be worth having a search on each state board website.

verystormy

Australia is awash with unemployed primary school teachers. I would say your chances are minimal

Babsw

I'm a teacher in Qld and as another person mentioned each state registers its own teachers. You have the necessary qualifications to register here but it is quite a process to register - what visa you are on,background history, recognition of qualifications from UK, police checks from UK etc, fees and then it is another process to become able to teach in a school. Here in Qld, it is a system called Tracer and you have to be available most days to pick up work as it's a bit similar to UK in that once a school gets to know you, more work becomes available. None of this will happen quickly and as another person mentioned there are a lot of primary teachers out there and all the new graduates just finished in Dec so those without jobs will be applying in Jan when schools return at end of Jan. As I said this is just what I know of for Qld and each state varies. I think you might be able to do it but it will take you some time to apply and register so you will need to factor this process into your travelling time. Good luck and I'm sorry if this information is not wholly accurate but I think I've pretty much covered it for here in Qld and I'm sure other posters will give you more info.

quoll

Don't fancy your chances to be honest. Registering with every state you want to teach can take months then (in ACT at least) getting "known" enough to be offered the odd day here or there could take months and in the meantime you're not eating.

If you're on a WHV and think you want to teach your way around Australia I think I would reframe and get barista training and a licence to serve alcohol. Sorry - primary teaching in Aus is well oversubscribed with local talent.

moneypenny20

Not sure I'd do that either tbh, well not in SEQLD anyway. I'd go the old fashioned WHV route; back pack, fruit pick etc. Certainly can't see teaching in the OPs future in Aus but I have been known to be wrong occasionally