GRADING OF TEACHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 5, 6 January 1920, Page 7

GRADING OF TEACHERS.

EFFICIENCY AND SERVICE. (Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) * WELLINGTON, Monday. The committee set up to report upon the remits having reference to grading, placed before the Education Conference to-day a series of"resolutions designed to urovide a basis of discussion. At the conclusion of the discussion the conference passed the following resolutions:—! Teachers' grading should depend upon— (1) Efficiency in assessment, of which the following factors should be taken into consideration: (a) Teaching ability, (b) personality and discipline, (c) organisation and management, and (d) school environment; (2) academic attainments; (3) years of efficient service. The quota system is inequitable as long as deserving teachers are debarred from opportunities of proving their efficiency in higher positions, and thereby improving their status. The present system ot allotting i. '< iency marks under special definite. headings should be retained, and teachers should be considered for lo marks lor organisation, and nfaSagemenir'"' Ttf enSßle feathers, to make proper comparison of grading of teachers in different education districts, quota marks and service marks of all teachers should be in the graded, list, as no system of promotion based on the grading scheme with its present anomalies -will ever gain the -confidence of the teachers of New Zealand, and this institute is strongly of opinion that immediate steps should be taken to establish uniformity of appraisement in grading as between district and district. The institute, -therefore, welcomes "the assurance of the assistant director that a conference of senior inspectors is to be held forthwith, hut is of the opinion that all grading officers should be called to that conference. The conference endorsed the sentiment expressed in the final words of the committee's report, which were as follow:— "Tour committee thinks the institute should place on record- that it is still unanimously in favour of a grading and promotion scheme equitably applicable to the whole of the Dominion, and that in making these recommendations it is actuated solely by the desire to improve the present scheme by the removal of some faults revealed as they only could be revealed by experience." Another resolution was passed to the effect that the space allotment and grading of a school should be based not on the average attendance, but on the average roll number.