Registration Subject to Confirmation (STC)

This category is for experienced teachers who have not met the requirements for full registration. This generally means that they have not taught for 8 blocks of ten weeks in the last 5 years.

Some facts about STC:

• Subject to confirmation category does not affect the ability to employ the teacher in permanent or fixed term positions, for full or part-time work, so long as the teacher holds a current practising certificate.
• The teacher registered STC is still placed on the appropriate salary step.
• The teacher registered STC can remain in teaching, and in that category for as long as they wish, subject to reapplication each three years to renew their practising certificate.

Principals should encourage teachers with STC to move to full registration. The teacher will need:

• to undertake a ten week advice and guidance programme under the supervision of a fully registered teacher. Unlike PRTs, there is no minimum weekly teaching time required time required each week, in recognition that the teacher has previously been fully registered.
• to be involved in professional development, and
• a recent appraisal against the Satisfactory Teacher Dimensions.

Professional development support for relieving teachers is important. This needs some co-ordination and can be best achieved through school clusters. Individual principals should consider sending a list to all teachers on its relieving list of staff meetings and staff professional development dates for the term with an invitation to attend.

Overseas teachers applying for registration in New Zealand for the first time may be eligible for registration Subject to Confirmation, provided they have had 5 or more years of teaching experience, have held a senior teaching positions in conjunction with documented supervised teaching experience.

Note that the Teachers Council will not recognise teachers registered STC as tutor teachers. Principals must be aware of this and must not appoint STC teachers as Tutor Teachers - the work of any PRT being supervised by a STC teacher cannot not be recognised for the purposes of moving to full registration, and the Council will require the programme to be repeated under the guidance of a fully registered teacher. That is of great concern to the PRT involved.

STC Resources:   Requirements for Professional Development (0.1mb pdf)   Extensions (0.1mb pdf)