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Teaching job application form with registration and referees
A teaching application is checked against two registers before anybody reads the cover letter, which is why the numbers come before the prose. This eighteen field form asks for a teacher registration number and the state that issued it, a working with children check with its expiry, the subjects and year levels somebody will actually take, and three referees including a current line manager.
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Every field, and what it collects
The complete field list, in the order respondents meet it.
- Your nameNameRequired
- EmailShort textRequired
- MobileShort textRequired
- Position you are applying forDropdownRequired
- Options: Secondary teacher, Mathematics · Secondary teacher, Science with senior Chemistry · Secondary teacher, English and Humanities · Secondary teacher, Design and Technology · Primary classroom teacher, years 3 to 6 · Learning support teacher, whole school
- What are you looking for?Single choiceRequired
- Options: Full time, ongoing · Full time, a fixed term contract is fine · Part time, three or four days · Part time, one or two days
- Teacher registration numberShort textRequired
- State or territory of registrationDropdownRequired
- Options: Victoria, VIT · New South Wales, NESA · Queensland, QCT · South Australia, TRB · Western Australia, TRBWA · Tasmania, TRB · Australian Capital Territory, TQI · Northern Territory, TRB · Overseas, and I would apply on appointment
- Registration expiryDateRequired
- Working with children check numberShort textRequired
- Working with children check expiryDateRequired
- Subjects you are qualified and willing to teachMultiple choiceRequired
- Options: Mathematics to year 10 · Mathematics, senior Methods or Specialist · General Science · Biology · Chemistry · Physics · English · Literature · History · Geography · Design and Technology · Health and Physical Education
- Year levels you are comfortable withMultiple choiceRequired
- Options: Prep to 2 · Years 3 to 4 · Years 5 to 6 · Years 7 to 8 · Years 9 to 10 · Years 11 to 12
- Years of classroom teachingNumberRequired
- Co-curricular you could offerMultiple choice
- Options: A sport, any season · Music, ensemble or instrumental · Debating or public speaking · Outdoor education and camps · Robotics, coding or STEM club · Production, backstage or direction
- Your teaching philosophy, and how it shows up in a lessonLong textRequired
- CV and cover letterFile uploadRequired
- PDF, up to two files, 15 MB each. A CV and a cover letter addressed to the principal. There is no need to attach transcripts, registration certificates or references at this stage, and they are not read if you do.
- RefereesTableRequired
- Columns: Name · Position and school · Relationship to you · Phone or email
- SignatureSignatureRequired
About you
Registration and clearances
What you teach
Your application
The numbers are checked before the prose is read
A school cannot interview an unregistered teacher, so the registration number, its state, its expiry and the working with children check all sit above the written answer rather than below it. The paragraph on that block says the numbers are verified against the issuing register before an interview is offered, which is a fact worth telling applicants because a transposed digit costs them the interview. It also tells anyone with a provisional registration or an application in progress to write that in the field rather than leaving it empty, which keeps good candidates in the process.
The Australian pieces on this form
Teacher registration in Australia is issued state by state, so the number alone is not enough and the dropdown names the authority in each jurisdiction, from VIT in Victoria through NESA, QCT and the rest, plus an overseas option for applicants who would register on appointment. The working with children check is a separate clearance with its own number and expiry, which is why it is asked twice over rather than folded into the registration block. Year levels use the Australian bands from Prep through to years 11 and 12, which is how a timetable is actually built.
How to adapt this form
A government school system replaces the position dropdown with a vacancy reference number and adds a merit selection criteria block, because the process is a documented one. A relief or casual teacher register drops the philosophy statement entirely, adds the availability grid used on a casual application, and keeps the registration and clearance block untouched since that is the whole point of the register. An early learning centre swaps teacher registration for a qualification dropdown and adds a first aid and anaphylaxis certificate upload, which is the equivalent gate at that level.
What makes this form work
Registration is asked as a number, a state and an expiry
A teacher registration number means nothing without the authority that issued it, so the dropdown names VIT, NESA, QCT and the rest beside each state, with an overseas option for applicants registering on appointment.
The philosophy question tells you what will be read
Around 600 words on how you decide what to do when a class is not learning, with a note that a specific example of a lesson that went badly is read most carefully. That is what stops a generic answer.
The upload says what not to attach
CV and cover letter as PDF, and an explicit note that transcripts, certificates and written references are not read at this stage. It keeps the bundle to two files and the panel reading rather than sorting.
Questions people ask
Why ask for the state of registration separately?
Because registration is issued by a different authority in each Australian state and territory, and a number without its issuer cannot be checked. The dropdown names the authority alongside the state, which removes the guesswork for an interstate applicant. It also has an overseas option, since a teacher moving to Australia registers on appointment rather than before applying.
Should a teaching application require a cover letter?
Here it does, as a PDF alongside the CV, and the field says what not to attach: transcripts, registration certificates and written references are not read at this stage. Being specific about what is unwanted shortens the upload and saves the panel from a forty page bundle, which is the usual result of leaving the instruction off.
How long should the teaching philosophy answer be?
About 600 words, and the paragraph above says what the panel is reading for: how somebody decides what to do when a class is not learning something. It also says a specific example of a lesson that went badly is read more carefully than anything else. That instruction changes what people write far more than a word count on its own.
Why a referee table instead of three text fields?
Because four columns produce four answers each time. Name, position and school, relationship, and a phone or email arrive as structured rows that export together, where three loose text boxes reliably lose the relationship. The paragraph above sets the rule that one referee must be a current or most recent line manager, which is the condition most applications quietly avoid.
Can this form check a registration number?
No. It collects the number, the state and the expiry, and a person verifies it against the register before an interview. Nothing on the page suggests otherwise. What the form does well is make the check quick, because the export puts the number, the issuing authority and the expiry date in adjacent columns.
What does the declaration signature cover?
The paragraph above it states that the registration and clearance numbers are current and belong to the applicant, that nothing prevents them working with children, and that the application is true. It also says a false declaration ends the application at any stage including after appointment. The signature is drawn or typed and is printed into the response PDF with that text.
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