Appendix: Public entities and roles that train and appraise teachers
Institutional arrangements for training, registering, and appraising teachers.
The New Zealand Teachers Council is the only public entity with roles spanning a teacher's career.
| Public entity or role | Main functions relevant to training, registering, and appraising teachers | Main tools for: | ||
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| Training a prospective teacher | Registering a teacher for the first time | Appraising an experienced teacher renewing registration | ||
| Committee on University Academic Programmes | To approve or refuse to approve a programme of study [Education Act 1989, sections 241 and 249] |
Approves university-provided teacher training programmes | ||
| Education Review Office | To review how applicable organisations perform in relation to the applicable services they provide [Education Act 1989, section 325] |
Reports on aspects of school performance relevant to teaching quality but does not assess individual teacher quality | Reports on aspects of school performance relevant to teaching quality but does not assess individual teacher quality | |
| Ministry of Education | From time to time, with the agreement of the State Services Commissioner, to prescribe matters that employers are to consider in assessing teachers' performance [State Sector Act 1988, section 77C] To intervene at a school if there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is a risk to the school's operation or to students' welfare or education [Education Act 1989, section 78I] |
Sets professional standards for schools to use to assess teachers' progress in pay progression, competence, and professional development | Sets professional standards for schools to use to assess teachers' progress in pay progression, competence, and professional development Intervenes in a school's operation in limited circumstances |
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| New Zealand Qualifications Authority | To oversee setting of qualifications standards in relevant schools and in tertiary education To ensure that there are mechanisms to guarantee that secondary schools and tertiary education providers that provide programmes or teaching schemes that require national consistency have assessing and moderating systems that are fair, equitable, and consistent, and comply with the appropriate standards [Education Act 1989, section 246A] |
Approves non-university provided teacher training programmes | Assesses overseas teaching qualifications, in conjunction with the New Zealand Teachers Council. | |
| New Zealand Teachers Council | To provide professional leadership To prepare teacher registration standards To issue practising certificates To set up and maintain standards for qualifications that lead to teacher registration To approve teacher education programmes in conjunction with quality assurance agencies To develop a teachers' code of ethics Discipline To co-ordinate Police vetting To identify research priorities and promote and sponsor research [Education Act 1989, section 139AE] |
Sets requirements for initial teacher education qualifications Approves specific teacher training programmes Sets Graduating Teacher Standards: Aotearoa New Zealand |
Sets Registered Teacher Criteria Provides guidelines for induction and mentoring. Issues practising certificates with a category of Provisional Registration. Co-ordinates Police vetting of registration applicants |
Sets Registered Teacher Criteria Issues practising certificates with a category of Full Registration when the Registered Teacher Criteria are met. |
| Non-professional school boards | Have complete discretion to control the management of school (unless the law provides otherwise) [Education Act 1989, section 75] |
Set a school's performance management and professional development policies Assess how well principal effects policies |
Set a school's performance management and professional development policies Assess how well principal effects policies |
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| Principals | Have complete discretion to manage as they think fit the school's day-to-day administration (subject to complying with the board's general policy directions) [Education Act 1989, section 76] |
Manage teachers' performance and professional development this includes inducting and appraising teachers Identify and report on competence issues Provide recommendations for registration |
Manage teachers' performance and professional development this includes appraising and inducting teachers Identify and report on competence issues Provide recommendations for registration |
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| Providers of teacher education programmes, including initial teacher education | Prepare programmes of study and training to be provided at the institution (subject to any written notice from the Minister of Education) [Education Act 1989, section 223] |
Provide teacher training programmes Arrange work placements for training teachers Assess students against programme requirements |
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| Tertiary Education Commission | Allocates funding to tertiary education organisations that have approved plans (to provide tertiary education) that meet relevant assessment criteria Monitors the performance of institutions that receive funding from the Commission [Education Act 1989, section 159F] |
Funds and monitors tertiary education organisations that provide teacher training programmes | ||