GRADING OF TEACHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 6

GRADING OF TEACHERS.

■ The Finance Committee of the Auckland Board of Education submitted at the Board meeting to-day a comprehensive series of recommendations regarding the grading and promotion of teachers. These were considered, and, in the main, approved, but one or two points' were deferred and referred back to the inspectors' staff for .consideration. The Board, for instance, affirmed the principle of an annual grading and of the allocation of extra marks for prolonged country service, and these matters will be the subject of further consideration. The recommendations (approved with the reservations above mentioned) were as follows:— nlv w"" 8 .. Iy °. tnose teachers who ap-Ust-t l\.° ?„..'? ° wUI a P Dear °n the graded "sts. AU teachers, male anc remalo will be graded on the same basis ~ ~ , s P amT5 st . rS 8 , on lS t__ _. m h„ . The . headings under-which marks wf'^el^llS^^l^^ scholastic ntt_-__n_ent_, 20~' ° errlce ' ,-.. For each year of serv.ce in the «. .♦„ schools of New Zealand, up to a) years, on. mark will he awarded, and for 3 ___f £Jf years of service In the State schoolTn. 'v„_i Zealand between 21 and 30 ye_r° one will be awarded. In the ca_f of teaSi.rV having service in the State schoo.s of other English-speaking countries, one mark wi.i ' be awarded for every two years', to 20 years; provided that no mark, '__ assigned for service beyond 30 Lists will be prepared as follow-—Head p^;«^-tElli Ing, salaries of _180 and usw__S-. n_"£ £135 to £180; (c) £90 to __«? _____ of S re P aratory department in spools of g. a __ J and higher. _.o teacher wllThe eligible tor the position of head teacher of a Si. grades 8, 9, and 10 until he has served °n a country school for a period of five years No teacher will be eligible.for the petition of assistant carrying a salary of £l_€i and upwards per annum until he has served In a country school for a period of two years These two clauses will not apply to _£W_r_ i S£° h:lTe , entered the service prior to 180S I With a., view to securing more adequare riy cognition of training college experience each second year student will be seen by an inspector, who, after observing the. student at work and considering the data supplied by the principal, shall-award grading marks Teachers will be Informed 6t the rlunier'c_i position their names occupy on the general list and on the special lists, and also of the number of marks they receive under the various headings. The Board, for any sufficient reason such as neglect of duty or misdemeanour may re move from ihe promotion, lists the name of any teacher In its service. Teachers de elring to appeal against their grading "must do so within two months of the receipt of their marks, such appeal to be considered by a committee consisting of a repre___. tire.of the Board, the Chief Inspector ana a representative of the Teachers' Institute, and if sufficient grounds be shown, to he referred -by such committee to the Board of ' ■