NESA Accredited PD
Latest update: January 2025
Training 24/7 has retired NESA Accredited PD
As you are likely aware, in 2024, NESA notified teachers and PD providers of their decision regarding major changes around PD requirements for teacher accreditation. On 16 August 2024, NESA announced the following:
Effective immediately, NESA has removed Accredited and Elective PD categories to give teachers more flexibility in completing their required 100 hours of professional development.
Under the changes, you can choose PD that better meets your needs and contexts.
The changes acknowledge the trust in and professionalism of NSW teachers, who typically complete far in excess of their required 100 hours of PD across a variety of activity types.
You no longer need to:
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- complete a minimum amount of Accredited PD
- complete PD from across the 4 mandatory priority areas
- write an evaluation for any completed Accredited PD courses
- align PD activities against the 37 Standard Descriptors, instead aligning it to one or more of the 7 Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (the Standards).
You can now use all employer mandated training aligned to the Standards towards your 100 hours.
As a result, Training 24/7 has now retired NESA Accredited PD, and updated its full day self-paced courses to remove some of the restrictions that were implemented due to NESA’s requirements (such as fast forwarding in a course).
Logging your PD hours for maintenance
You will now need to manually log all course hours with NESA for PD you complete with us.
To simplify this process of logging your hours, we released a ‘Completion Report’ capability, with a link to this under ‘My Courses‘. This provides you a report on what PD modules you have marked completed, when. It also includes the APST standards, and expected course completion time to help you enter data. All courses should fit the priority area: ‘delivery and assessment of NSW Curriculum’.
If you have any questions at all about this, please contact us and we’d be pleased to help!