Finalise your application

Your Accreditation Supervisor has to give reasons for this kind of declaration. You should read their evaluative comments in your eTAMS account.

Your principal/TA Delegate will review your entire application, including your Accreditation Supervisor's declaration, and can:

• ask you to make revisions to your application
• make a recommendation to accredit you
• make a recommendation to not accredit you
• say that they are unable to make a recommendation.

If your principal/TA Delegate asks for revisions:

• discuss them with your Accreditation Supervisor
• review the Standard Descriptors you haven’t met and think about what you need to do
• modify your documentary evidence and resubmit.

Your principal/TA Delegate is only able to make a recommendation to not accredit where:

• you have completed at least 160 days of teaching
• the Accreditation Supervisor has fulfilled their responsibilities
• they have contacted your previous school/service, where relevant
• you have had the chance to revise your evidence and meet the requirements for accreditation at Proficient Teacher but you have failed to do so.

Your principal/TA Delegate will give you and your employer 28 days written notice before they recommend you not be accredited. The written notice will include the Standards not met and their reasons. After reading it, you should respond to the reasons and any requests.

If you respond to the written notice, your principal/TA Delegate will consider your response before making a recommendation to NESA.

If you do not respond, your principal/TA Delegate must make a recommendation to NESA within 28 days of their notice.

We will decide to accredit or not accredit you within 28 days of receiving your principal/TA Delegate’s recommendation. We will email you our decision.

In some circumstances your principal/TA Delegate will tell us that they cannot make a recommendation about your accreditation. These circumstances include:

• you have not completed at least 160 days of teaching
• you have not worked long enough in the school or service for the principal/TA Delegate to make a judgement about your practice
• your principal/TA Delegate has asked for information about your practice from your previous school or service with your permission, but it hasn’t helped them to make a judgement. Your current principal/TA Delegate is likely to state they are ‘unable to make a recommendation’ if you do not give them permission to contact your previous principal/TA Delegate.

What you can do

Your principal/TA Delegate will send you a written notice if they cannot make an accreditation recommendation.

Your application will reopen.

You should read the comments in your principal/TA Delegate's written notice. Discuss with your principal/TA Delegate how you can address their reasons for being unable to make a recommendation. If you can address the reasons and your principal/TA Delegate agrees, you can resubmit.

Alternatively, and if you are still within your accreditation timeframe, you can approach another school/service or employer for support to finalise your accreditation at Proficient Teacher. You can do this until the end of your accreditation timeframe.

In some circumstances you can apply to us via an Application for extension of accreditation timeframe (PDF 223.05KB).

You can apply in the final 6 months before your due date. You will need to provide evidence of the grounds for your extension request.

Grounds may include:

• illness and misadventure
• carer responsibilities
• undertaking further study
• other applicable professional or individual circumstances.

If you don't gain Proficient Teacher accreditation by the end of your maximum timeframe or any extended time given, your accreditation will cease.

This means you are no longer accredited and are not eligible for employment as a teacher in any NSW school or service.