Welcome to the mid-year edition of Registration Buzz

This edition is packed full of information and resources that we hope you will find useful.

If you’re teaching in a South Australian school or early childhood setting, chances are you’ve had some interaction with the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia (the Board). But have you ever wondered what the Board does more broadly, and how it can support you throughout your teaching career? 

Our website is a great place to start. Think of it as your go-to hub for everything teacher registration including information about our services, answers to common questions, and insights into how we help uphold the standards of teaching across the state.

So, what does the Board do?

We’re a specialist regulatory body dedicated to ensuring South Australian students receive high-quality education from capable, professional, and ethical teachers.

Teacher registration verifies your qualifications and ensures a consistent standard across the profession. Our aim is to build and support a teaching profession that’s well-prepared, continuously growing, and consistently delivering excellence in practice. It’s what helps maintain trust in our education system.

While the Board primarily registers teachers, it also provides a wide range of other statutory functions that are mandated by legislation.

We also:

• Approve and accredit initial teacher education programs
• Support early career teachers as they transition into the classroom
• Assess suitability and qualifications for teaching roles
• Investigate concerns about conduct, competence, or fitness to teach, always putting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people first

Our role is not just regulatory. It’s protective, supportive, and future-focused. We’re here to help you thrive in your career while safeguarding the integrity of the teaching profession.

Visit www.trb.sa.edu.au to explore our resources and find out how the Board is working behind the scenes to support quality teaching across South Australia.

The Teachers Registration Board Service award celebrates and acknowledges the work of a teacher from diverse and dedicated educator workforce with 20+ years of service who have played a vital role in influencing learning outcomes and shaping futures for our children and young people.

Teachers can self-nominate or be nominated by another registered teacher currently working with the nominee, or has done so within the five years prior to the nomination process.

To enter, download a TRB Service Award Application Form https://www.trb.sa.edu.au/home/about-us/awards-and-prizes and attach a:

• CV including the nominee’s contact details and employment history over the past 20 years. (Potential nominees should not be discouraged if their CV indicates periods of maternity leave.)
• statement of no more than 1500 words addressing of the following criteria:

• impact the nominee has had on the academic, social, and mental wellbeing of their learners
• nominee’s engagement with contemporary teaching practices, and/or community activities, to promote learner engagement, attendance and/or academic growth.
• nominee’s collaboration with colleagues, including mentorship to new teachers or contributing to professional learning communities.
• any other activities undertaken by the nominee that makes them an outstanding long-career teacher.

The successful nominee will be presented with an award to be held in the Adelaide town Hall, between 5-7 pm on the 4^th of November 2025

Applications must be submitted electronically to professional.standards@trb.sa.edu.au no later than midnight on the 5^th October 2025.

We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to Carolyn Grantskalns who was recently awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the King’s Birthday Honours.

Many in the South Australian education sector will know Carolyn through one of her many roles and of course, as the Presiding Member of the Teachers Registration Board.

Carolyn is a former teacher and Wilderness School Principal of 16 years and was appointed AISSA’s CEO in 2013, only recently retiring from that role in 2023.

Carolyn also served on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Board and is a former member of the South Australian Education Standards Board.

Congratulations Carolyn on this outstanding and well-deserved recognition of your hard work and dedication to education in South Australia.

It’s been 2 years since the new TRB website www.trb.sa.edu.au was launched. 

We're proud of how far we've come in making information more accessible, supporting South Australia's teaching profession, and staying connected with the teaching community.

We’d love to hear from you

Your ongoing feedback helps us to continue to improve the content we provide. Whether it's something you love, something we can do better, or a feature you'd like to see - let us know.

Email us at: website@trb.sa.edu.au

SLASA are thrilled to invite you to their upcoming dynamic and informative conference at a new venue, The Grand Chancellor Hotel in Adelaide.

This year’s theme, “School Libraries: Choose Your Own Adventure,” promises an exciting lineup of speakers and sessions covering a wide array of topics relevant to school libraries.

From Archives to Information Literacy, 3D Printing to Cataloguing, and Library Design, the conference has something for everyone. Whether you’re looking to explore new initiatives or find practical solutions to keep your library engaging and useful, you’ll find it here.

The new venue offers ample space for learning and networking. Your registration includes a delicious lunch and a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow professionals. Don’t miss out on this chance to enhance your skills and knowledge in a supportive and inspiring environment.

Come along and be part of the adventure!

Register here: https://www.slasa.asn.au/event-6021046

Recently Board staff came together for a strategic planning day to begin the process of co-creating the strategic direction of the agency by building on strengths and achievements.

This was an important and exciting opportunity to complete workshop activities focussed on enhancing cohesive workgroups to achieve strategic priorities.

The Board looks forward to bringing together the challenges, ideas and priorities identified in a new Strategic Plan later this year.

Finding supportive environments to share resources and information with other educators online is important. Joining one of the many teacher Facebook groups can be a good place to start. See below for a list of networks you can join.

Relief Teachers of Adelaide & South Australia

Need a relief teacher, are a relief teacher, have questions about being a relief teacher.

Teachers of Adelaide
A place for South Australian teachers to network, share/ request resources & discuss all things teacher-y.

Teachers of SA
Provides inspiration, resources and news to the South Australian education community. The page is maintained and moderated by Credit Union SA.

The SA Department for Education: Teacher Leaders

To provide a forum for networking and sharing, supporting the professional life and career development of teacher leaders and aspirants.

LTASA - Lead Teachers Association of SA

This is an association for Teacher Leaders and those aspiring, across all sectors of Education in South Australia.

The Importance of Leadership
This group is open to all educators with an interest in leadership, whether from the classroom, within a school or in a wider context.

Digital Technologies & Computational Thinking
Wondering what computational thinking looks like in the classroom? This group is for educators and others who recognise that learning to code is only part of the process.

Relief Teaching Ideas Community
A spin-off of the Relief Teaching Ideas Facebook Page. This is for ALL teachers - casual, permanent, contract, part-time, student teachers, specialists, tutors, teacher aides, homeschoolers, and anyone else interested in education

Australian Primary Ed Teachers

This group is purely for resource sharing, discounts, promotions, competitions and even resource requests! Exclusive to Australian Teachers.

Junior Primary/Primary Teachers of Adelaide

For Junior Primary/Primary Teachers to share Resources and National Curriculum Strategies.

TfEL Teachers' Companion

We are a community of teachers who use the Teaching for Effective Learning (TfEL) Framework and TfEL Teachers' Companion to support our pedagogical practice.

Teach Meet Adelaide

This group is for all notices regarding teach meets in Adelaide.

Australian Prep Teachers

You will find loads of ideas and support for teaching in the Australian Prep and Foundation classroom. This group is open to Australian Teachers, Aides and Student Teachers only.

Digital Technologies and Computational Thinking

This group is for educators and others who recognise that learning to code is only part of the process. Purposeful tasks and computational thinking are essential future skills for every young person. The pedagogy we bring to digital technologies is crucial, and teachers need help to transform their practice and application of digital tools.

SPELD SA (Specific Learning Difficulties Association of South Australia) provides individual and group training for teachers, educators and schools, offering professional development in the areas of literacy, including DIBELS assessments, numeracy, and inclusive education.

Coming up in June there are a range of workshops available, as well as group training in schools

DIBELS 8th provides a set of short fluency measures that allows us to accurately assess the skills needed for literacy acquisition.

DIBELS 2 hours FOCUS SESSION- Administration and Scoring Basics

Date: 03 Jun 2025

Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: ONLINE TRAINING

Register now

Supporting High School Students & Adult Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties

This training is for anyone who is supporting high school students or adult learners

and wants to know more about specific learning difficulties, such as Dyslexia.

Date: 03 Jun 2025

Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Location: SPELDSA Training Room/Bookshop – 715 South Road, Black Forest

Register Now

UFLI Foundations

UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic phonics program that introduces students

to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading.

Date: 23 Jun 2025

Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Location: SPELDSA Training Room/Bookshop – 715 South Road, Black Forest

Register now

To view all workshops available, visit: All workshops

Take the opportunity to transform your classroom with a knowledge of primitive reflexes. Learn what they are, the effect they have on children when they remain unintegrated and HOW to help children to integrate them through brief intentional movements. 

RMTi is a simple but powerful intervention for children who struggle with focus, attention, impulse control, concentration, coordination, balance, learning, speech, language, sensory processing, and emotional regulation and social maturity. 

These workshops will deepen your understanding of neurological development and give you tools to implement easily in your classrooms. Help your students to build strong and mature neurological foundations enabling them to enhance all other areas of their learning. 

Suitable for teachers in early childhood, primary or secondary settings. 

These courses will be co-taught by Moira Dempsey and Nikki Riemann. Now based in Melbourne, Moira is an international Educational Kinesiology instructor and the founder of Rhythmic Movement Training International. Nikki is a teacher and RMTi Consultant based in Adelaide. 

August 2-3rd - Adelaide CBD

Level 1 RMTi Practicum - Focus, attention and concentration. 

Level 2 RMTi Practicum - Emotions, memory and behaviour. 

August 30-31st - Adelaide CBD

Making Connections - How RMTi promotes integration of basic brain neurology to encourage brain maturity. 

For more information or to book head to https://tinyurl.com/5dhufnp9

For more information contact Nikki - nikki@headoverhills.com.au or Moira - queries@integratedbeing.com

As a national not-for-profit professional association, PETAA supports educators and school leaders with resources and professional learning across Australia. With active and excellent Board representatives from South Australia, PETAA ensures resources are mapped to each state’s curriculum and syllabus needs.

For more information, visit the website at: https://petaa.edu.au/

The KS:CPC is a child safety and respectful relationships curriculum for children and young people from birth to year 12 (age 17+).

It is mandated in all Department for Education and Catholic Education sites, and used in independent schools and other approved organisations. Teachers must complete the full day Educator course prior to delivering the curriculum to children and young people.  For more information see:

• About the KS:CPC
• KS:CPC Educator course
• Approved organisations