The New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association / Te Wehengarua (PPTA) response to the question:
Will the introduction of the new Registered Teacher Criteria (RTCs) increase teacher workload by forcing all teachers to keep portfolios of evidence?
This should not be the case.
The Registered Teacher Criteria (RTCs) are replacing the Satisfactory Teacher Dimensions
The RTCs are replacing the current Satisfactory Teacher Dimensions that are used for decisions around whether a beginning teacher is ready to move to full registration and for renewal of practising certificates every three years.
Documentation of induction and mentoring for beginning teachers
For beginning teachers, the Teachers Council has always expected that careful and detailed records will be kept of the induction and mentoring process in the first two years. These records, often in a portfolio, help the school to decide whether to recommend to the council that the teacher become fully registered. They should include written feedback on classroom observations, notes and reflections from discussions with mentor teachers, records of professional development activities, and so on.
The Council does not require these records to be sent in with an application for full registration, but sometimes, if there appears to be something irregular about the application, they will ask for them.
Documentation for renewal of teacher's practising certificate
In their workshops on the RTCs, the council is making it very clear that this same level of record-keeping is not required for the three-yearly renewal of practising certificates. Teachers Council staff are telling workshops that schools should find ways to combine this process with their existing performance appraisal system, which may or may not involve teachers assembling portfolios of evidence about their work and professional learning.
The booklet on the RTCs that has been issued to schools says: “The degree of formality and extent of documentation of evidence supporting the demonstration of the Registered Teacher Criteria will clearly be different for experienced teachers renewing practising certificates in contrast to what is required by provisionally registered teachers working towards gaining full registration, which may be more extensive and formal” (P.5).
Download Registered Teacher Criteria Handbook 2010
Check out the Teachers Council’s programme of workshops 
Registered Teacher Criteria workshops
If no-one from your school has attended one, and there is one coming up that they could get to, suggest that they do.
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Flip
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... Be warned...If you are an immigrant there is already "something irregular about the application". The Teachers Council calls this "random selection" Either way keep all that paperwork. |
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