Tutor Teacher Allowance. a) A tutor teacher is a fully certificated teacher who holds a current practicing certificate and is designated as being responsible for providing an advice and guidance programme to a provisionally certificated teacher working towards full certification. The responsibilities of the tutor teacher include assisting the provisionally certificated teacher to meet the certification requirements. b) A tutor teacher allowance of $600 per annum is payable to a designated tutor teacher while they are responsible for a provisionally certificated teacher, or teachers, who are permanently employed or employed to fixed term positions of at least ten consecutive weeks provided that the total combined hours of the provisionally certificated teachers are at least 0.8. c) A tutor teacher may be responsible for tutoring more than one provisionally certificated teacher concurrently, but shall only receive one payment of the allowance. d) Only one teacher may be designated as being responsible for tutoring any provisionally certificated teacher at any one time. e) The designation of tutor teacher shall be for no more than one calendar year on each occasion. f) Where the provisionally certificated teacher is employed for part of a year, the allowance shall be paid to the tutor teacher for that part of the year only. g) The tutor teacher and the provisionally certificated teacher engaged in the advice and guidance programme will receive paid release time of: i. Tutor teacher: one day per year; ii. Provisionally certificated teacher: two release days per year. iii. Release days can be used for: professional discussion and feedback, observations, visiting other centres, writing up observations, or reviewing the PCT’s folder.
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Sources: Employment Agreement, Collective Employment Agreement
Tutor Teacher Allowance. a) A tutor teacher is a fully certificated teacher who holds a current practicing certificate and is designated as being responsible for providing an advice and guidance programme to a provisionally certificated teacher working towards full certification. The responsibilities of the tutor teacher include assisting the provisionally certificated teacher to meet the certification requirements.
b) A tutor teacher allowance of $600 per annum is payable to a designated tutor teacher while they are responsible for a provisionally certificated teacher, or teachers, who are permanently employed or employed to fixed term positions of at least ten consecutive weeks provided that the total combined hours of the provisionally certificated teachers are at least 0.8.
c) A tutor teacher may be responsible for tutoring more than one provisionally certificated teacher concurrently, but shall only receive one payment of the allowance.
d) Only one teacher may be designated as being responsible for tutoring any provisionally certificated teacher at any one time.
e) The designation of tutor teacher shall be for no more than one calendar year on each occasion.
f) Where the provisionally certificated teacher is employed for part of a year, the allowance shall be paid to the tutor teacher for that part of the year only.
g) The tutor teacher and the provisionally certificated teacher engaged in the advice and guidance programme will receive paid release time of:
i. Tutor teacher: one day per year;
ii. Provisionally certificated teacher: two release days per year.
iii. Release days can be used for: professional discussion and feedback, observations, visiting other centres, writing up observations, or reviewing the PCT’s 's folder.
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Sources: Collective Employment Agreement