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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 18. July 24, 1974

After they learn to spell C-A-T Who's going to teach them how to T-H-I-N-K?

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After they learn to spell C-A-T Who's going to teach them how to T-H-I-N-K?

Teaching means helping students to learn for themselves. For this task we need teachers who are well equipped academically and who are able to stimulate young minds. If you think you have the necessary qualifications, contact your careers adviser, or local education board for further information.

Secondary Teaching

Here is a career that uses your knowledge; a career with probably more job satisfaction than any other. A career in which your academic, artistic and sporting interests can be used to the full.

Teaching offers permanent lifetime employment in a service that's vitally important to the future. It offers variety and scope for initiative. It offers freedom to develop special interests, and real opportunities for advancement and self-improvement.

Then there's the generous salary scales and the payment while you train. And the long holidays.

The Teaching Capacity

Secondary teachers usually specialise in a subject or group of subjects. English, science, maths, languages, social studies, art, music, physical education, homecraft, commercial subjects, woodwork and metalwork, or agriculture. Some teachers undertake special responsibilities in connection with school libraries, or as careers advisers. Others specialise in the expanding field of guidance counselling, while a few become child welfare officers, or education officers in the armed forces. There are opportunities, too, in teachers' colleges and in the secondary inspectorate.

Training

1. Division U: Full time university study towards a degree or diploma, followed by a year at a teachers' college.

2. Division B: A three-year course including teacher training and university study at either Auckland or Christchurch.

Secondary Teacher Studentships

These provide students with financial assistance for full-time university study. To be eligible for a studentship, you must hold U.E. at the date applications close (15 August), and be at least 16 years of age on 31 December of the year you apply. If you wish to go to University independently you can make use of the Fees Bursary if you have only U.E., or the Fees and Allowances Bursary if you have Higher School Certificate. You may apply for a studentship or Division B during your university course if you decide later to enter secondary teaching.

Division B students are paid an allowance of $1,759 for each of the first two years, and $2,388 for the third year, plus a boarding allowance, if eligible, of $139 a year.

Salaries

Basic Salary Scales at 1 February 1974 for a trained teacher with a Bachelor's Degree are:

1st year $4,711
2nd year $5,188
3rd year $5,584
4th year $6,060
5th year $6,380
6th year $6,855
7th year $7,412
8th year $7,967

If eligible, a married allowance of $140 is paid. Higher rates are paid for positions of responsibility. In secondary schools with rolls in excess of 850 pupils, the basic salaries for Principals and Deputy Principals are:

Principal $13,608
Deputy Principal $10,826
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Primary Teaching—

The primary service includes all pupils from the primers to Form II. If you wish to become a teacher in this field, you may apply to your local Education Board to enter a teachers' college under the classification Division A. The minimum qualification is Sixth Form Certificate. However. University Entrance is an advantage for those who wish to undertake additional University study during their training. If you are now in the sixth form you should be pursuing a course of study for University Entrance. You may apply in anticipation of gaining your U.E. or Sixth Form Certificate at the end of the year.

Salaries

On admission to a teachers' college, you receive for the first two years $1,759 and $2,388 in your third year. A boarding allowance of $139 may be payable if you must live away from home. If you are over 20 you will receive $2,936 in your first two years and $3,092 in your third year but no boarding allowance. The table shown below gives the basic salary paid during the first eight years of teaching.

Basic Salary Scale at 1 February 1974.

Trained Teachers Certificate Diploma in Teaching Bachelor's Degree
First year $4,059 $4,236 $4,717
Second year $4,236 $4,407 $5,013
Third year $4,407 $4,601 $5,234
Fourth year $4,576 $4,823 $5,498
Fifth year $4,841 $5,087 $5,827
Sixth year $5,170 $5,416 $6,156
Seventh year $5,498 $5,744 $6,482
Eighth year $5,827 $6,072 $6,482

Opening eyes, opening minds come Teaching Department of Education

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