Essential steps before placement

The Professional Experience team organise all teacher placements. The placement team secure placements 3-4 months in advance. Communicating preferences early is critical.

Step 1: Read your Pre-placement Essentials email thoroughly and action
items immediately. Tip - this is sent you your Deakin email.

Step 2: Update InPlace with your current address, upload a photo of your Working with Childrens Check, update all other relevant preferences. Placements cannot be sourced until this is completed.

Step 3: Choose your option.

• Self-Placement via InPlace
  • Placement in your workplace
  • Placement where you have a pre-existing relationship
  • Permission to teach
• Subsidised Placements and Scholarships
  • Placement Plus Wimmera
  • PPG Rural Placement
  • Employment Based Pathways
• PEO Sourced
  • Placed within 1 hour of residential address
  • Partner Schools/Centres

Standard Option:
The PEO will begin working on a placement for you unless an alternative option is advised within 2 weeks of receiving your  replacement Essentials email.

PEO Sourced:
Your placement officer will find a placement within a maximum of 1 hour travel from your address listed on InPlace from our extensive network. Any changes must be communicated as early as possible or extended travel time may apply.

Self Placement:
This option is exclusively available for students who have:

• A pre-existing relationship with a school and have an opportunity to connect for placement
• Approved Permission to Teach (Prim/Sec only)
• Wish to complete their placement in the school or Early Childhood setting they are currently employed in.

Subsidised Placements and Scholarships:

• PG Rural Placement
• Placement Plus Wimmera
• Employment Based Pathways
• Teach Today

Follow links from the Essential Steps email for further info, cutoff dates apply.

Commonwealth Prac Payment

From July 2025, eligible Domestic students will be able to access $319.50 per week while they are undertaking a teaching placement.

Please refer to the Deakin Financial Assistance website for information. All queries should go through Student Central.

Want more information?

The new website has heaps of handy information including guidelines, calendars and student resources.

Weekly Drop-In Sessions:

The Professional Experience Team are pleased to now offer weekly Zoom drop-ins focused entirely on placement logistics - not assessment. These sessions are a great space to ask questions and make sure you are on track. No need to book, simply drop-into the relevant zoom session listed on the Professional Experience website.

Some areas we can help you with include Understanding what is required before placement, InPlace submissions and uploading forms, Placements in the Workplace, Self Placements.

Contact us

Email: peo-allocations@deakin.edu.au (before placement)

• Sourcing and Allocating Placements
• Self Placement, Workplace, PPG, PTT
• Placement Information - Calendar, Prerequisites etc.

Email: peo-placementsupport@deakin.edu.au (after placement)

• Support during and after placement for students and mentors
• Placement Assessment and Report queries

For all other queries: soe-peo@deakin.edu.au

Every placement is a chance to learn, reflect, and grow. The PEO are proud to support you on this exciting part of  our teaching journey.