Teachers devoting more time to pupils (UK Report)
http://tinyurl.com/2xpfx7
Teachers devoting more time to pupils thanks to reforms (Report)
Teachers have more time to devote to pupils thanks to reforms designed to reduce paperwork and refocus their workload, inspectors have found.
A report by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) reveals that more than three quarters of teachers interviewed believed they have greater control over their work and more time to plan lessons, mark books and collaborate with colleagues thanks to a ”revolutionary shift’’ in school working practices.
The new report, Reforming and developing the school workforce, looks at the impact of the agreement struck between the Government, employers and professional associations.
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Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights (USA)
http://www.nctq.org/cb/
Welcome to the National Council on Teacher Quality's groundbreaking online research portal. You can explore the intricacies of collective bargaining agreements, board policies, and teacher handbooks from the nation's 50 largest school districts, educating 16 percent (over 8 million) of all school children, employing nearly 500,000 teachers and operating 11,000 schools. And that's just the beginning.
The database provides answers to over 300 questions, ranging from salary and benefits to how a teacher gets evaluated--with more getting added all the time.
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PPA The national agreement (UK)
http://www.tda.gov.uk/remodelling/nationalagreement.aspx
PPA The national agreement (UK)
Planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) :
All teachers should now receive 10 per cent of their timetabled teaching time for PPA activities. Find out about resources to help you achieve this.
Dedicated headship time : Headteachers need to be able to focus on strategic leadership and management. Phase three of the national agreement secures you dedicated time to lead the drive for school improvement.
Invigilating exams: Teachers are no longer required to invigilate exams or national curriculum tests.
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PPA Time for Teachers : FAQs
http://www.devon.gov.uk/dcs/improve/remodel/ppa_faq.htm
PPA Planning Preparation & Assessment Time for Teachers: FAQs
Guaranteed Planning Preparation and Assessment (PPA) time is a key development in the drive to reduce workload and to raise standards. It ensures that there is provision during the school day for these core tasks. This will enable teachers to more effectively improve the quality of pupils' learning through a combination of individual and collaborative professional activities during the timetabled school day.
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PPA time; leadership and management time (UK)
http://www.teachers.org.uk/story.php?id=3403
Planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time leadership and management time (UK)
This guidance document will improve understanding of some important changes to teachers’ conditions of service which will affect the way in which UK school-time is organised.
Preparation and Assessment (PPA) Time and Leadership and Management Time. The vast majority of teachers became entitled to PPA time from September 2005.
This document deals with two changes to conditions of service which affect the amount of non-contact time to which teachers are entitled during the school day. These are the introduction of Planning,
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Teacher Pay and Salaries Area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/salary/
Teacher Pay and Salaries Area on Shambles
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Teacher Conditions of Service Comparisons
http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/Education
Worldwide Teacher Conditions of Service Comparisons and Statistics
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Teacher Duties in Michigan USA
http://www.gomasa.org/EPjobdescripts.htm
Teacher Duties in Michigan USA
Job Desrciptions | Michigan Tenure Rules |
Michigan Teacher Tenure Act | Asst. Supt. Human Relations Position Description |
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Department of Trade and Industry UK
http://www.dti.gov.uk
Department of Trade and Industry UK
| Hours of work | Pay entitlement | Public holidays | Employment agency standards | Individual employment rights | Redundancy arrangements | Employee consultation | Trade unions and collective rights | European employment Directives | Analysis and research (EMAR) | Workplace partnership | Publications |
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What Teachers Make
http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=13
What Teachers Make
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Example and sample school pay policies from NCSL
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/index.cfm?pageID=managing-policies-documents
Example and sample school pay policies from NCSL National College for School Leadership (UK)
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Teachers' Pay in the UK
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/pay
This area of TeacherNet contains details of teachers' pay since 1997. It includes recent editions of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document and its associated guidance along with other publications relating to the annual pay cycle. These include DfES evidence to the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) along with copies of the STRB reports and copies of the letter sent to statutory consultees about proposed changes.
The site also gives access to the teachers' pay calculator this is a website-only version, based on TeacherNet, and designed for continuous use, eliminating the need to produce a new version each time the pay arrangements change.
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Reducing Teachers Workloads (UK)
http://www.ome.uk.com/downloads/732615_CM5497.pdf
STRB special review of approaches to reducing teacher workload
"It is vital that teachers spend their time teaching, not doing tasks that can be done by others or helped by better use of ICT."
teachers | pay | UK | workload | use of time |
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Teachers Pay in the UK
http://www.ome.uk.com/
The Office of Manpower Economics (OME) is a non-statutory body which provides a Secretariat for the six Pay Review Bodies and the Police Negotiating and Advisory Boards.
School Teachers' Review Body
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