New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INSTITUTE OF TEACHERS ACT 2004 - SECT 3A

3A Meaning of “teach” and “teacher”

(1) In this Act, "teach" means to undertake duties in a school that include (but are not limited to):

(a) the direct delivery of courses of study that are designed to implement the curriculum and the responsibility for assessing student participation, performance and progress in those courses, or

(b) the direct delivery of any other course or program for primary, secondary or preschool children (being a course or program prescribed by the regulations, or of a class prescribed by the regulations, for the purposes of this definition) and the responsibility for assessing the participation, performance and progress of children in that course or program.

(2) A reference in this section to undertaking duties in a school is a reference to undertaking duties on the premises of a school in the course of providing services conducted by the school.

(3) In this Act, "teacher" means a person who is, or is to be, employed to undertake any duties referred to in subsection (1) (whether or not the person undertakes any other duties).