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Research, guides and advice published by the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association / Te Wehengarua (PPTA).

Includes guidance and advice issued on various aspects of your terms and conditions of employment - as set out in the Secondary Teachers' Collective Agreement (STCA) and Area School Teachers' Collective Agreement (ASTCA).

 

Many of PPTA's published documents are available in pdf format - you can use the search documents form to access them.

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1 90-day trial period applies only to individual agreements
2 Affirming diversity of sexualities in the school community
3 Alternatives to study leave for senior students: PPTA advice
4 Appointments to teaching positions in secondary schools
5 Calculating average class size: a guide
6 Call back days
7 CAPNA [Curriculum and Pastoral Needs Analysis]
8 Career education benchmarks now available
9 Contact with parents and students by phone (landline and cellphone) [ICT advisory committee]
10 Fixed term appointments - Tenure (ERA section 66)
11 G3+ teacher salary qualification; trained and untrained pay scales
12 Medical certificate required after 5 days not 1
13 NCEA teacher only days are for standards alignment work
14 Online safety for teachers [ICT advisory committee]
15 Overseas teachers
16 PPTA members and extra-curricular activities: guidelines
17 PPTA members and National Standards: Report on assessment workload survey
18 PPTA’s advice on adjustments to the school day
19 Professional learning and development (PLD) toolkit
20 Registered teacher criteria (RTC) and appraisal processes
21 Registered Teacher Criteria: Setting the record straight about portfolios
22 Regraded positions
23 Resource teachers: learning and behaviour (RTLB) transformation process
24 Salary assessment for new and beginning teachers
25 Schools and email [ICT advisory committee]
26 Schools outside Christchurch with buildings assessed as an earthquake risk: Guidelines for PPTA members
27 Secondary school teacher salary 1980 - 2009
28 Secondary teaching into the future - aspirations
29 Secondary teaching into the future - education system principles
30 Secondary teaching into the future - learning principles
31 Secondary teaching into the future - PPTA's preferred future scenario
32 Service / Qualification Increment
33 Snow days and the length of the school year
34 Surplus staffing 2011 - contact PPTA if you have been disadvantaged
35 Teacher competence review - process and procedures
36 Teacher only days for standards realignment work
37 The cost of change : PPTA survey on NCEA workload 2010
38 The meaning of 'endeavour' and 'consultation'
39 Useful acronyms
40 Your pay: end-of-year and start-of-year dates 2011-12