CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 16

CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS.

SCHEME ADOPTED IN TARANAKI. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 27. At a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board to-day the beard's inspectors— Messrs W. A. Balla.ntyne and R. G. Whetter—reported on the question of the classification of teachers. They recommended that the following scheme be adopted as the basis of classification, with a total of 100 marks: Service, 10 marks (two years 1 mark) ; academic attainment, 15 marks ; teaching proficiency, 40 marks; personality (including tone, tact, influence, and thoroughness), 20 marks; organisation, 10 marks; environment, 5 marks. The inspectors added: '' This scheme was the one adopted as the basis of classification for the teachers of the whole of the Dominion by the conference of school inspectors recently held at Wellington." The board decided to adopt the scheme, and at a later stage it adopted the following system of transfer and promotion:—(l) That after June lin the appointment of teachers the board shall first of all consider if it has a teacher in its service suitable to fill the vacancy, and, if eo, then that teacher shall be transferred to the vacancy, provided the committee concerned raises no valid objection to the appointment; (2) that in any case where no suitable teacher is available applications shall be invited and the procedure laid down by the act followed ; (3) that the board as a whole be the selection committee.