TEACHERS' APPOINTMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13926, 7 December 1908, Page 6

TEACHERS' APPOINTMENTS.

WANGANUI BOARD'S SYSTEM.

[BY TELEGRAM!.— CORRESPONDENT.]

Marton, Saturday. An important series of resolutions was passed at the meeting of the Wanganut Education Board yesterday regarding the sections of the Education Act dealing with the appointment of teachers. The Board decided to make all appointments possible by transfer, and to deal with transfers more effectively lists of teachers who are suitable for head teachers and assistants, as well as one for uncertificated teachers, are to be prepared by the inspectors. One list will be called the efficiency register, and will show the length of service, age, professional skill, educational standing, and personality of the teachers, professional skill to be assessed by teaching power, organising power, disciplinary power, and the extent to which the school gardens, school games, grounds, buildings, furniture, and apparatus are made to contribute to the physical, moral, and educational wellbeing of the children. The promotion lists are to show for each grade and subgrade, as defined by the Act of 1908, the rank numerically designated of each teacher at the beginning of each year. Every teacher is to be supplied with a copy of the entries against his name, and to have the right to appeal to the Board against the position in which he is placed. The position taken up by the Board is that the- Legislature intended that before applications for positions are invited consideration must first be given to tho claims of the teachers in their employ, and, in their judgment, to transfer deserving ones to better appointments. To enable this to bo done properly some system must be evolved, and the one adopted is intended to do that. i