EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 82, 31 December 1907, Page 6

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

■■■.•■' >;'• - annual'meeeting. ' , ' "•'.. -interesting subjects f0r ; :' v ' ■■;,;•; ' -"; ■ discussion. ,;;■' : ; •■'.•', . (BY TEWSGnArH—SrxCUK COREESFONDENT.) '.-. ..." Auckland, December 30..In. qbnrieqtioii with the annual, meeting ,ol the Now Zealand Educational Institute about fifty,_ teachers...from,-, various, parts .of ~th.« Dominion wiH'.'take'part in the.conference. Aji.\al)uh'dance, of .work. for...the.'three.,days' sitting will he .'provided by the' I ,order paper, which, is a lengthy one, comprising 57 recommendations from tho various district • institutes; .., /.. ... ... ; -\ ■• .'-..■ .' Matters in .connection • with the status, and payment, of members will figuro largely in the:"'discussion, no fervor than 19 of .tho recommendations coming under this head. The. question 0f...a promotion "scheme,: for teachers is likely to; occupy ' considerable, time. In. connection"' with'this matter .'-'a' report will bo submitted by- a special -committee, set'up las.Vy.oar.- This report..affirms the nocd for a sound system' of promotion providing for. efficiency being.,the,first, consideration -..in- appointments,, for ,t : he. grading oppositions, for seniority of ser'vice'.boing tho determining factor when all' other.' things are equal, for- a.-gua/ahtee. against, reduction of salary, except on- proofs of loss of efficiency. The committed recommends that tho-Minister-, for Ediictaion be asked to introduce a Bill-providing that, fo'rjth'e purpose' of tho ■• promotion ■ of. ..teachers, :-tho .-various education- : districts..bo grouped/ ..The com-iaittoo'i-ccommeridsthat positions be'classified into three divisions according'to., salary; that .teachers. : in each; division .shall- be graded according to efficiencp, personality', educational, attainments' and -length of '■ service, marks being'given for, eaohj.and thjifc oil the • estimate so formed 'the names .shall be placed on ; each ' list. Appointments" .'.'to .vacancies' according . .to tho.,; committee! s seliemo should be made on the basis' Of the marks awarded.,,. It is' also/suggested that each division should have fixed minimum and maximum .salaries; w;ith provision for annual increments in the case of salaries below tho <taaximiim. ' .' . ■''.:■ ' ,v ' -. ;' A resolution will also be moved to' the effect.that.the Minister be urged' to provide for the' payment, of salaries on; some'other basis than that of average attendance.; Resolutions will also be subnlitted'dealing with tho staffing, of schools. ..Olio recommendation, from the North' Canterbury" In-stitute-is to the effect that every school should-have; at least 60 per cent, of its staff adult teachers, and that whero., the pupilteachers exceed 40,,p0r cent., of the staff, the number shall be reduced by the substitutionof assistants.at £90 a year. , ".'-..' ... A recommendation.will bo .brought forward ... by, tho, Hawke's Bay. delegates:' ■" That pupilteachers should not bo" employed'"in schools with'a smaller average attendance than 250."• An Auckland resolution affirms the desirableness of legislation -to : provide for a quarterly ;adjustment of staffing In schools.'. •'.;■ • •''; the Njorth. Canterbury - Institute is ..bringing forward a motion in fav6ur,of, tho compulsory retirement of all male .teachers..it' 65; and all female teachers at 60 ye3rs of-' age. ■ ' -,•■,! ~.;-■:; ~i . . : t Tho pupifH-eachers scheme, prepared.by the Auckland Headmasters' Association; will be considered by, the'conference,and the- question of December examinations'on\the lines of tho regulations.which have already.beeu:pre-, pared by the Department; but not put into operation, will also bo dealt with.;.; . lii regard 'to tho super'ahtiuatOT'. scheme,. the following 'recommendation, will ■bo 'sub-;.; mlttejT'By ] tbe r Wanganlin" representatives: —;: "That,: iii:tho:opinion'of this Institute,' al- , lowanco for back service, amourttiug't6'l-120tn of tho ary.l, 1966, gives-a totally inadequate allowance to teachers who havo sjjent - tlreir''best' years'.'in the'service of education; and that ovory effort oughtrto;be made to obtain, ternis .'. as good as those of the railway and J.police Departments.""' ''"'..' ''< ':'.' '• The School Journal will also bo discussed on tho following recommendation from 1 tho Auckland- Branch :-.'.'.That, .w,hilo; appreciating-the, i action bfvt'ho Education Department in publishing -tho School-: Journal; '-the "Institute '~ would/. suggest .that-'prbvision'.bo: made-- for \; separator sets, of lessons, for standards'l arid llv oirac'cbtinfc:'of the difficulty .experienced ;in Standard I in undertaking'tho-work:of Part I;-and - for-tlie-iiicHisi(tti- : m'Pa'rte.II.and:IIItb. , - r » dcfinitoi courses■:of, lessoJis:-in:'civic-iinstitu-tions, ■ and history-,. health;.; geography', arid, , ; perhaps, an iritprosting' serial.story.".'; ■>•■