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folder icon 43 Annual Conference Papers
Papers presented to Annual Conference for debate and policy development. These papers have been developed by PPTA Executive and/or PPTA regions.
folder icon 24 Class size

Selected further information and resources on class size.

folder icon 7 Annual Reports
Annual Reports of the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua
folder icon 12 Members Guide series

This series of pamphlets includes advice and guidance covering the following topics: Beginning teachers;
Employment relations problems/Personal grievances;
Guidance for teachers in their relationships with students;
Guidance for teachers working with Māori students;
Introducing Te Huarahi Māori Motuhake;
Making schools safe for people of every sexuality;
Meeting procedure;
Overseas teachers;
Parental leave;
Part-time teachers;
Sick leave;
Teacher competence;
Teacher conduct and discipline;
Teachers’ salary guide: Area schools;
The staff representative on the board of trustees.

folder icon 20 Newsletters / Communities

PPTA publishes a number of newsletters to groups of members. PPTA advisory group correspondence and information.

folder icon 38 Media releases / posters

Press releases, advertising, posters

folder icon 43 The PPTA News

PPTA News is the journal of the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association. There are 11 issues published each year.  It contains articles of professional and industrial interest.

Approximately 18,000 copies of PPTA News are distributed free to secondary and area schools and other institutions.

Not all the opinions expressed within PPTA News reflect those of the PPTA.

Enquiries should be addressed to: The Editor, PPTA News, PO Box 2119, Wellington, New Zealand. Phone: 04 3849964; Fax: 04 3828763; Email news@ppta.org.nz This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

folder icon 15 Research
Published research commissioned by PPTA or undertaken by PPTA staff.     Includes Teachers talk about NCEA, Te Kotahitanga, Professional standards, What parents want..., Technology
folder icon 41 Submissions
Submissions made by the PPTA in response to discussion and consultation documents.
folder icon 14 Web resources

Documents that are not PPTA documents.  Includes Official Information Act requests, documents supplied by other organisations and WWW resources for teachers.    Please contact us if any of these links are broken webcoord@ppta.org.nz

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(May 2012)  How to use the Professional Standards and Registered Teacher Criteria and make them useful, reasonable and meaningful.  These guidelines have been prepared for PPTA members by the Executive with help from the Senior Positions Advisory Committee and the NZ Secondary Principals’ Council.    PPTA has a longstanding commitment to good quality and robust guidance and appraisal of teachers, for equity of access to quality professional learning and development, for professional ethics, and to proper processes for addressing issues of competence and conduct of teachers.
(May 2012) Consultation is about seeking the advice and opinions of others. It does not require full agreement, but must be more than prior notification. The initiator of consultation must provide enough information to allow meaningful discussion, and be willing to accommodate the views of the people consulted.
file icon HomophobiaTooltip 05/07/2012 Hits: 43
(May 2012) Homophobia is the fear or loathing of homosexuality. It is often based on what an individual believes to be an appropriate masculine/feminine role. This usually leads to discrimination and harassment.
file icon Some GLBTI definitionsTooltip 05/07/2012 Hits: 35
(May 2012) The following definitions may be useful in schools as they work to make their environment safe and welcoming for GLBTI students, staff and whanau.
file icon GLBTI Case studies Tooltip 05/07/2012 Hits: 30
(May 2012) The following case studies are based on real events in New Zealand secondary schools. They can be used as a way for teachers to think through how well prepared their school is to deal with issues for GLBTI students.
(April 2012) A resource to assist schools in developing and implementing effective anti-violence policies, practice and procedures.
file icon PPTA Branch chairs' handbookhot!Tooltip 02/24/2012 Hits: 219
(February 2012) A 'rough' guide to organising your branch. Contents: About PPTA; The branch; Recruitment; Meetings; Consultation; Health and safety; Getting into action; Role of the field officer; Acronyms and links; Helpful checklists for branches.
(August 2011) PPTA’s earthquake recovery taskforce has drafted this checklist to assist PPTA members in branches outside Christchurch where one or more buildings have been deemed an earthquake risk.  
Association policy sets the lowest temperature acceptable for classroom teaching at 10 degrees centigrade.   Most people are comfortable between temperatures of 16 and 24 degrees and all efforts should be made to maintain temperatures within this range.    However, experience in 1998 of unusually high temperatures (anticipated to reoccur in 1999 and beyond) led to requests for formal guidance from PPTA on what was a suitable maximum temperature for teaching.
(March 2011) At the human rights conference at the Asia-Pacific Outgames, PPTA President Robin Duff presented a workshop titled ‘Queering the closeted curriculum in the cardboard classroom’.
(2011) Many PPTA members who teach and assess in Years 7 and 8, either in a Year 7-13 or 7-10 school or in an area school, are experiencing negative impacts on their workloads and stress levels from the implementation of National Standards.  The 70% of respondents who are also tasked with implementing revised achievement standards are being doubly affected.  From this survey there is little evidence of enthusiasm for National Standards from PPTA members who teach in Years 7 and 8.  There is also a common perception that the National Standards have nothing to do with them because of the specialist subject(s) they are teaching, despite the government’s encouragement of schools to involve all curriculum areas in the development of students’ reading, writing and maths and in the collection of evidence against the Standards.
(February 2011) A list of useful website addresses. Publshed by EAP services
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