Leaving teaching

If you are considering leaving teaching and you might return to teaching in the future, either part-time or full-time or as a relief teacher, you may wish to consider maintaining your registration with the Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia (TRBWA).

If you wish to leave teaching but maintain your registration you can:

• change your category of registration to Non-Practising Registration, if you hold Full or Provisional Registration​. Non-Practising Registration allows you to retain teacher registration with the TRBWA indefinitely as long as you continue to pay the annual fee and comply with your obligations as a registered teacher. Teachers holding Non-Practising Registration are not entitled to teach at an educational institution.

If you decide not to maintain registration and let your registration expire, when/if you decide to return to teaching in the future, you will be required to apply again for Full or Provisional teacher registration. 

You will have to wait until your application has been approved before you can commence teaching again.

To teach immediately, your employer may make an Application for Limited Registration on your behalf.

I wish to cancel my registration

If you wish to cancel your registration, you should advise the TRBWA in writing using the Request for Cancellation of Registration Form (online form via-Teacher Login) and forward it to the TRBWA.

This will stop you receiving correspondence from the TRBWA from the date the notification is processed.