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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

"The Education Act, 1877."—Examination and Classification of Teachers.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth make the regulations hereto annexed for the examination and classification of teachers; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this order shall come into force on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, and that on the same date the regulations for the examination and classification of teachers made by Orders in Council of the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and of the tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, shall be repealed.

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REGULATIONS.

CERTIFICATES.

1. CERTIFICATES shall be of five classes, determined by mental training and attainment, and distinguished, from the highest to the lowest, by the letters A, B, C, D, and E. But no certificates of Class E shall be issued except to teachers that have already passed the examination for Class E under former regulations, or obtained partial pass at that examination, or that shall pass or obtain partial pass at the examination to be held in January 1904. Teachers that have obtained partial pass already, or that shall have obtained partial pass at the examination to be held in January 1904, will be entitled to complete their examination at any examination up to and including that of January 1905, but not afterwards; and no certificate of Class E shall be issued after the thirty-first day of December 1906.

2. The division of a certificate within the class shall depend—first, with the limitations noted in clause 5, on the number of years during which the teacher has been actually engaged in school teaching, one mark being assigned for two years’ service, two marks for five years, three marks for eight years, and four marks for eleven years and upwards; and, secondly, on the judgment of an Inspector, such judgment being expressed by marks numbering 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10, according to the Inspector’s estimate of less or greater efficiency; and, the marks of both series being added together, fourteen marks shall qualify for the first division, eleven marks for the second, eight marks for the third, five marks for the fourth, and three marks for the fifth. In assigning marks for efficiency the Inspector will use the number “2” as a substitute for the lowest, and the number “10” as a substitute for the highest, term in a series of terms beginning with “tolerable” and ending with “excellent”; and an Inspector may put “0” in place of a number to indicate that he considers the candidate to be incompetent.

3. Marks for efficiency can be given only by the Inspector in whose district the teacher is at work, except that the Inspector-General of Schools may assign marks for efficiency, not exceeding four, to teachers whose practical skill is sufficiently attested by certificates granted by authorities acting outside the Colony of New Zealand, and that he or any other Inspector of the Education Department may also assign marks to teachers in schools inspected by him.

4. On the thirtieth day of June in each year teachers who by length of service, or upon a more favourable judgment expressed by the Inspector before the thirty-first day of May, shall have become entitled to promotion to a higher division shall receive such promotion.

5. Notwithstanding anything in the preceding clauses, no teacher shall be classified until he has taught for two years in a school inspected by an Inspector of an Education Board or of the Education Department, nor until he has been assigned at least two marks for practical skill in teaching. No teacher shall be placed in Division 2 until he has been at least eight years a teacher in a public school; and no teacher shall be placed in Division 1 until he has shown to the satisfaction of his Inspector, ability to take charge, as head teacher, of a school with more than 150 children in average attendance; and the mark “10” shall not be given unless the Inspector is satisfied that such ability has been shown; but the teacher need not have been actually in charge of such a school. For the purpose of this regulation a period of normal-school training shall count as service of twice its length, provided that not less than two hours a day on an average has been devoted to actual practice in teaching under supervision approved by the Minister of Education, or to practice in teaching and to criticism of actual teaching, both practice and criticism being under approved supervision; otherwise a period of normal-school training, if approved by the Minister of Education, shall be counted as ordinary service.

The Minister of Education may determine what value shall be attached to a period of service in schools other than public schools.

6. The requirements for Class E shall remain as heretofore, except that no examination for Class E shall be held after January 1904, nor for completion of partial pass for Class E after January 1905.

7. The requirements for Class D are set forth in clauses 21 to 24 hereof.

8. The requirements for Class C are set forth in clauses 25 to 35 hereof.

9. The examination for Class B shall be the pass examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Science, Laws, or Medicine at the University of New Zealand, together with an examination in the following subjects as for Class C: Reading, writing, arithmetic, music, drawing, elementary human physiology, theory of education.

Provided, first, that any candidate who, having passed the intermediate examination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, or the first examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, or the first section of the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts or of Science, at the University of New Zealand, shall, before the first day of June, 1904, have applied to the Inspector-General of Schools for recognition of his success at such examination, shall, on producing evidence of having passed in the remaining subjects of the examination for such degree, be regarded as having passed for Class B, without further examination.

And provided, secondly, that any candidate who, having passed the examination herein prescribed for Class C, shall at any one and the same degree examination of the University of New Zealand pass in not less than three subjects other than those in which his work has been counted for Class C, shall, on application to the Inspector-General of Schools, be regarded as having passed for Class B, without further examination.

And provided, thirdly, that any candidate who, having passed the examination herein prescribed for Class C, shall produce to the Inspector-General of Schools certificates of proficiency granted by the University of New Zealand in not less than four subjects other than those in which his work has been counted for Class C, shall be regarded as having passed for Class B, without further examination.

10. The examination requirement for Class A shall be the same as for Class B, with the addition of such success at an honours examination of the University of New Zealand as is required for first-class or second-class honours, but with no limit as to the time of passing such honours examination.

AGE OF CANDIDATES.

11. No certificate shall be issued to a candidate that has not attained the age of eighteen years; and a certificate granted to a candidate under the age of twenty-one years shall be a provisional certificate, which shall rank as a license to teach, and which may be exchanged for an ordinary certificate when the candidate has reached the age of twenty-one; and no candidate that has not attained the age of sixteen years shall be admitted to examination for a certificate.

EVIDENCE OF CHARACTER AND HEALTH.

12. No person shall receive a certificate or be admitted to examination under these regulations who does not produce sufficient documentary evidence of good moral character, and of freedom from all such physical defects as are incompatible with efficiency in teaching and in the management of a school.

No medical certificate shall be considered as sufficient evidence under this clause unless it is on the form provided, and is signed by a medical officer approved by the Minister.

EXAMINATION REQUIRED.

13. A certificate shall not be granted except after examination held in accordance with these regulations, or after proof of the passing of an equivalent examination held by some sufficient public authority: Provided that a partially equivalent examination may be recognised pro tanto, and supplemented by such further examination as the Minister of Education may order, and that the Minister shall be the judge of the value to be assigned to examinations proposed for acceptance as equivalent or partially equivalent.

DATE OF EXAMINATIONS.

14. An examination for the two Classes C and D shall be held every year in the month of January, beginning not earlier than the fifth day of the month, and ending, if possible, not later than the eighteenth day of the month.