Tiwhikete Whakaakoranga Tōmua | Provisional Practising Certificate: for all new and beginning teachers from New Zealand and all overseas trained teachers wanting to register to teach in New Zealand. This certificate indicates that a teacher is meeting Ngā Paerewa | Standards with support, as they are required to complete an induction and mentoring programme before being endorsed as independently meeting Ngā Paerewa | Standards. 

Tiwhikete Whakaakoranga Tūturu | Full Practising Certificate (Category One): for experienced teachers; those who have been, and continue to be, endorsed as meeting the Standards for the Teaching Profession | Ngā Paerewa. This could be demonstrated by meeting the satisfactory teaching service requirement, or through completion of a teacher refresh process. Satisfactory recent teaching service is at least two years of uninterrupted teaching, or a shorter period as determined by the Teaching Council. 

Tiwhikete Whakaakoranga Pūmau | Full Practising Certificate (Category Two): for experienced teachers who, because of their role type, are not currently able to be endorsed as meeting all the Standards | Ngā Paerewa but are considered likely to meet them. 

Limited Authority to Teach (LAT): not a practising certificate and is not intended for registered teachers. However, it enables people without a teaching qualification to teach in positions where there is need for specialist skills or skills are in short supply, but which are not permanent roles, for example teachers of musical instruments or languages.