Teaching: you can do it
Indigenous Territorians considering a career as a teacher are encouraged to apply for scholarships, cadetships and fellowships that provide financial and study support. Applications close 18 January 2008.
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What do you want to do with your life? Have you ever thought about becoming a teacher?
Teachers are respected members of the community and great role models for kids … and it’s never too late to take up the challenge.
There are lots of different ways to become a teacher. You could study in your home community and you can even be paid to study.
Talk to your teacher, careers adviser or principal about a pathway that might suit you.
Steps to becoming a teacher
There are many different steps that will take you closer to becoming a teacher, depending on where you’re starting.
If you are still at school, you must stay at school and finish Year 12.
If you have just finished Year 12 you could:
- Apply to do a traineeship as an assistant teacher in your community school
- Study at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE)
- Study at Charles Darwin University (CDU)
Contact your principal or careers adviser for more details.
If you finished school a few years ago you could:
- Apply to do a traineeship as an assistant teacher in your community school
- Complete the Preparation for Tertiary Studies (BIITE) or the Tertiary Enabling Program (CDU) to prepare for study
- Do a Bachelor of Education at BIITE
- Do a Bachelor of Teaching and Learning at CDU
To find out more, talk to your local school principal.
Conditions and benefits
Teaching gives you:
- Excellent salary and allowances, especially in remote areas
- Great professional learning and experience
- Subsidised housing (up to 100%) in regional and remote communities if you’re teaching away from home
- Up to three airfares a year, an isolation allowance and freight allowance, depending on the location
- The IT tools you need including a laptop for every teacher in an NT Government school.
Cadetships and traineeships
You can be paid while you study through the Department of Employment, Education and Training’s (DEET) study support programs.
An Indigenous cadetship helps Indigenous people complete a degree to become teachers in DEET. It provides financial and study support including:
- 40 weeks living allowance
- 12 weeks paid work placement
- HECS fees paid for every unit of study passed
- $1000 book allowance per year
- A guaranteed job at a professional level at the end of your degree.
DEET offers traineeships in schools as Certificate IV Indigenous Education. Traineeships combine practical work experience with on or off the job training, lead to a nationally recognised qualification and can be the first step in becoming a teacher.
Downloads
- Teacher stories display (pdf 2.6Mb)
- Promotional posters - A3 size (pdf 858Kb)
- Mini card promotional posters (pdf 783Kb)
- Teacher resource posters (pdf 714Kb)
- Comic - Teaching: you can do it (pdf 3.3Mb)
Contacts
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE)
Phone: 8939 7493
Charles Darwin University
Phone: 8946 7413
Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET)
Phone: 8901 4991