NEW EDUCATION ACT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 3

NEW EDUCATION ACT.

APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS. MARTON, December 4.

An important series of resolutions wa» passed at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board to-day in connection with the sections of the Education Acti dealing with appointment of teachers.. The board decided to make all appointment's, where it is possible to do so, hy } transfer, and to deal with transfers more effectively a list of teachers suitable for head teachers and assistants, as well aa one for uncertificated teachers, are to bo 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 teachers. Professional skill is to be assessed by teaching power, organising power, disciplinary power, and th» extent to which, school gardens, school!! games, grounds, buildings, furniture, an<S< apparatus are made to contributeyto the physical, moral, and- educational wel!- < being of the children. The promotion, lists are to show for each grade and subgrade, as denned by the act of 1908, tha rank, numerically "designated, of eac*t teacher at the beginning of each year.w Every teacher is to be supplied with a copy of the entries against his name, andjif to have the right to appeal to the boardt against the position in which he is place.c.. ( The position taken up _by the board is that the Legislature intended that before applications for positions are invited con-\ sideration must first be given to tn"s! claims of teachers in their employ, and in their judgment to transfer the deserving; ones to better appointments. To enable* that to be done properly some systejii must be evolved, and the- one adopted is intended to do that.