GRADING OF TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16233, 19 May 1916, Page 6

GRADING OF TEACHERS.

THE DOMINION SCHEME, SIX PROVISIONAL GROUPS. ANNUAL CLASSIFICATION. CBT TELEGRAPH. — ASSOCIATION.' Wellington, Thursday Regulations for the grading of teachers under the new scheme -were gazetted today. They provide for a Dominion grading scheme, for which teachers have been agitating for many years past. The inspectors, acting together, are to meet annually in order to grade certificated teachers employed by education boards in their own districts as on February 1, and to report to the Minister for Education not later than March 31. Provision is made for certificated teachers who may be temporarily ont of employment, and for native school teachers. For the purpose of determining the grading of teachers, the inspectors are to divide teachers provisionally into six groups, as follows :—

Group A: Head teachers with salaries of Grade 1., and assistants with salaries of Grades L and 11. Group B : Head teachers with salaries of Grade 11., and assistants with salaries of Grade 111. Group C: Head teachers with salaries of Grade HI., and assistants with salaries of Grades rV. and V. Group D : Head teachers with salaries of Grade IV., and assistants with salaries of Grades VI. and VII. Group E: Head teachers with salaries of Grade V. Group F: Head teachers with salaries of Grades VI. or VH. It is provided that the head teacher of a district high school, unless he is classified in Group F, shall be placed in the group next above that in which he •would otherwise be placed under the above provisions. Teachers in charge of part-time schools are to be grouped in all cases as if their grade of salary were determined by part 4 (B) of the fifth schedule of the Education Act. Relieving and temporary teachers, other than permanent relieving teachers, are to be grouped according to the grade of salary of their last permanent position. In cases of normal schools and kindergarten, a mistress, senior secondary assistant, and sole teacher shall be placed in Grade A. The remaining assistants in such schools, other than those in charge of middle schools, are to be grouped according to the grade of salary they would receive in the corresponding positions in a school of Grade VH., but are not to be placed in a group lower than B. Except as otherwise provided, grade of salary for the purpose of these regulations is to be the grade of salary in parts 1 and 2 of the fourth schedule of the Education Act, payable to a teacher on February 1, but shall not include any additional payment or allowance by way of salary or otherwise.