Within school teacher

On this page you can learn about the Community of Learning | Kāhui Ako within school teacher role.

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This guidance supports Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako to understand the functions of the within school teacher.

About the within school teacher role

The purpose of the within school teacher (WST) is to promote best teaching practice and strengthen the use of an inquiry approach to teaching and learning.

  • Within school teachers draw on a range of professional resources and adapt what they do to meet students’ needs and strengths.
  • They work directly with other teachers (including those from other members of their Community of Learning) to help identify and respond to challenges in practice
  • They support the Community of Learning’s objectives.

Allowances

Teachers appointed to WST are given time and support to share effective teaching practices that improve educational achievement.

We provide the employing board with:

  • 0.08 full-time teacher equivalent release time (this will appear on the school’s staffing entitlement notice)
  • a $400 per year induction and networking allowance, as part of the operations grant.

Allowances are provided on a pro-rata basis if an appointee is in a role for less than one year.

Pre-requisites for the role

Applicants for the within school teacher role will have:

  • employment as a teacher in the school
  • a current practising certificate
  • recent teaching experience relevant to the role
  • met professional standards relevant to their current position.

Merging within school teachers to create across school teachers 

Communities of Learning may create up to 2 additional across schools teacher roles by merging several within school teacher roles.

Across school teacher

Responsibility allowances and examples

Schools and kura with at least 2 school-allocated WST positions may release up to 50% of these roles to allocate Kāhui Ako responsibility allowances to 1 or more teachers for the purposes of:

  • promoting effective teaching practice within the school, and
  • strengthening the use of effective approaches to teaching and learning to achieve shared Kāhui Ako objectives, and
  • recognising Kāhui Ako related responsibilities undertaken by teachers who are not Kāhui Ako Teachers (within school).

Responsibility allowance guide for primary and area schools

For primary schools and kura (from 6 September 2023) and area schools (from 28 January 2024), each Kāhui Ako WST role that is released will provide four Kāhui Ako responsibility salary allowances of $2,000.

A teacher may be allocated more than one Kāhui Ako responsibility allowance. There is no minimum required classroom teaching load (PTCA) or timetabled class-contact hours (ASTCA) for teachers who hold the Kāhui Ako responsibility allowance.

Primary and area school examples

Example 1

Pōneke Primary School is entitled to 3 school-allocated WST roles. They may use one of these of these roles to create up to four responsibility allowances.

For example:

  • 1 teacher is allocated 3 responsibility allowances of $6,000 and 0.06 FTTE release, and
  • 1 teacher is allocated a responsibility allowance of $2,000 and 0.02 FTTE release.

Example 2

Waterstone School is entitled to 1 school-allocated WST role and has been given 1 community-allocated WST role.

Both roles must remain WST roles. Each teacher appointed to a role will receive a WST allowance of $8,000 and 0.08 FTTE release.

Example 3

Horomanga School is entitled to 7 school-allocated WST roles and has been given 1 community-allocated WST role. They may use up to 3 of these roles to create up to 12 responsibility allowances.

For example:

  • 1 teacher is allocated 6 responsibility allowances of $12,000 and 0.12 FTTE release, and
  • 2 teachers are each allocated 2 responsibility allowances of $4,000 and 0.04 FTTE release, and
  • 2 teachers are each allocated 1 responsibility allowance of $2,000 and 0.02 FTTE release.

Responsibility allowance guide for secondary schools

A teacher who is allocated a Kāhui Ako responsibility allowance(s) can be provided either a salary allowance(s) or a time allowance(s), or a combination of both.

A teacher may be allocated more than 1 responsibility allowance. There is no minimum required timetabled class-contact hours for teachers who hold the Kāhui Ako responsibility allowance.

Each Kāhui Ako WST role that is released will provide:

  • 2 Kāhui Ako responsibility time allowances of 0.04 FTTE; and
  • 4 Kāhui Ako responsibility salary allowances of $2,000.

Examples for secondary schools

Example 1:

Tiritiri Secondary School is entitled to 3 WST school-allocated roles. They may use 1 of these of these roles to create responsibility allowances.

For example:

  • 2 teachers are each allocated a responsibility allowance of $4,000 with 0.04 FTTE release time.

Example 2:

Bluebay Boys High School is entitled to 6 school-allocated WST roles. They may use up to 3 of these roles to create responsibility allowances.

For example:

  • 3 teachers are each allocated responsibility allowances of $6,000 and 0.08 FTTE release time, and
  • 3 teachers are each allocated responsibility allowances each of $2,000 with no release time.

Example 3:

Riversby High School is entitled to 1 school-allocated WST role and has been given 1 community-allocated WST role.

Both roles must remain WST roles. Each teacher appointed to a role will receive a WST allowance of $8,000 and 0.08 FTTE release.

Example 4:

Ohikaiti College is entitled to 11 school-allocated WST roles and has been given 1 community-allocated WST. They may use up to 5 of these roles to create responsibility allowances.

For example:

  • 2 teachers are each allocated responsibility allowances of $12,000 with 0.12 FTTE release time, and
  • 6 teachers are each allocated responsibility allowances of $4,000 and
  • 6 teachers are each allocated (responsibility allowances) of 0.04 FTTE release time.

More information

Role selection and appointment information guide [PDF, 283 KB]

Board as employer – NZSTA(external link)

Local Ministry offices

 

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