APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 8 December 1908, Page 3

APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS

An important series of resolutions were passed at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board on Friday in connection with 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 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 teachers, professional skill to be assessed by teaching power, organising power, disciplinary power, and the extent to which school gardens, school games, grounds, buildings and furniture are made to contribute to the physical, moral and educational well-being of the children. The promotion lists are to show for each grade and sub-grade, as defined by the Act of tqoß, the rank, numerically designated, of each teacher at the beginning of each year,

Every teacher is to be supplied with a copy of 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 by the board to the claims of teachers in their employ, and that in their judgment they must transfer deserving ones to better appointments. To enable that to be done properly, some system must be involved, and the one adopted is intended to do that.