Benefits of a teaching career
A career that moves
- Find casual, temporary and permanent employment anywhere in the state or world
- Explore a career in rural or remote NSW with additional benefits and incentives
- Enjoy teaching across a wide variety of roles and settings
Mentoring and support
- Be supported while you study with a future teacher scholarship
- Receive beginning teacher support funding in your first two years of teaching
- Enjoy generous leave provisions
Benefits you and others
- Develop a range of transferable skills
- Benefit from access to training and development programs
- Countless leadership progression opportunities
- Make a difference in the community
Video: Teaching opens doors
Start your teaching journey
Ready to start the journey? Find out how to become a teacher in a NSW public school.
High school students:
- Meet teaching course pre-requisites
- Update UAC preferences to include an initial teacher education course
- Apply for a future teacher scholarship
University students:
- Enrol in an approved initial teacher education course
- Apply for a future teacher scholarship
- Apply for approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education
Career changers:
- Select your subject area specialisation
- Enrol in an initial teacher education course
- Be supported while you study/retrain to become a teacher
Teachers from other systems/states:
- Apply for NESA accreditation
- Apply for approval to teach in NSW public schools
- Explore employment opportunities across NSW
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Book credit: ICEBERG by Claire Saxby, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft (Allen & Unwin, 2021) featured with the permission of Allen & Unwin: www.allenandunwin.com.