In 1958, after serving eight years in the RNZ Navy and completing a teaching diploma, I was appointed to a position at an Auckland co-ed college. As there was a teacher shortage, recruitment was sought in the UK and graduates with art degrees but no teaching qualifications were offered two-year contracts with airfares to New Zealand and assistance with accommodation. As they lacked teaching experience they were to 'train on the job' and were sent to classrooms to observe teachers. As one chosen to assist I was expected to inculcate the principles and practices of teaching. Their salaries were £1000 pa; mine was £615 pa.
The government did not consider that by improving the extremely niggardly teaching salaries in New Zealand they may have solved the problem locally.
B Johnson, Omokoroa.
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Bonding
Posted on 03-03-2018 15:22 | By MISS ADVENTURE
There was a time when teachers were trained for free but then had to go where the MOE required them to go for a period of time of a few years perhaps five? Now the standard required to pass has dropped, the results of students are plummeting, teachers have at best "Lady-Di" hours of work, little home work is set for students and yet the demand is for more and more money. It is clear where the focus is on, what actually is the most important thing and "teaching" does not appear on the list!
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