NESA Accredited PD

Latest update: March 2023

Training 24/7 is building a catalogue of new NESA Accredited PD

If you’ve worked with us for many years, you will be aware that in the past, Training 24/7 was a NESA Category 2 Registered PD Provider. This allowed us to offer a large number of courses to help NSW teachers maintain their accreditation.

After the change from NESA (announcement of the end of NESA Registered PD on 30 Nov 2020, and the new policy requirements for accreditation being made available to providers 28 July 2021), we had to make the decision as to how we would go about addressing the new policies that were required for the new ‘Accredited PD’ from NESA.

We spent quite some time approaching this from multiple angles, but ran into a number of challenges looking to ‘retrofit’ previous courses with the new policies. One of those challenges was simply time related – the new policies mandate a 30 minute interval, where almost half of our courses ended on a ’15 minute’ interval boundary (for example, 1 hour 45, not 1 hour 30, or 2 hours).

In the end, we determined it would be best for us to develop a new series of courses that were designed from the start to meet the new policies, and in discussion with NESA, this indeed is the preferred approach.

As such, we have been developing a series of new courses with the new polices front of mind, and have so far released a small number of courses, with more in development.

Current NESA Accredited Courses

Synthetic Phonics 6 hour full day course (live)

This is our most popular live training day, where we provide synthetic phonics training for teachers, no matter what resources they have – although many examples will use Get Reading Right’s scope and sequence.

Synthetic Phonics 6.5 hour full day course (self-paced)

This is effectively the same educational content as our full day course, but with adjustments based on the new policies, including adding quizzes and collaboration opportunities added for further engagement in this format.

Morning Routine 6.5 hour course (self-paced)

For most folks (for example, All Access Pass PLUS subscribers) this will offer 13 hours of Accredited PD, at time of writing, and of course our regular phonics day (live) also provides 6 hours on its own.

Differences with NESA Accredited Courses

You may notice some technical changes to our NESA Accredited courses in particular. This has been driven by the new policy requirements, including specifically a technical blocker to stop fast forwarding through a course. We have implemented changes initially with the ability to rewind in small increments, but also the video player will pause if you change tabs.

These measures are to ensure engagement in the course is focused on the course itself, and it cannot be skipped through.

We are looking to enhance this further with additional software to improve review of a course following its completion.

Logging of Accredited PD completions

We will log completed accredited hours with NESA on your behalf, so long as you have provided your NESA number under ‘My Account’, are up to date with your NESA fees and are ‘Proficient Teacher’ level (otherwise NESA’s eTams site does not allow us to add hours for you).

For previous self-paced courses – logging your PD hours for maintenance

You will need to manually log other course hours with NESA for other PD you complete with us as ‘Elective PD’.

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!