Employment
Finding a job
There are a number of ways you can find a teaching position:
Support in teaching
The Māori Immersion Teacher Allowance (MITA) is a salary allowance (equivalent to one salary unit p.a.) for teachers who use te reo Māori as the language of communication and instruction. To qualify teachers must:
- be employed in a permanent full-time position or full-time relieving position; and
- teach immersion programmes at Levels 1 (81%-100%), 2 (51% - 80%), or 3 (31% - 50%); and
- use te reo Māori in approved teaching programmes to deliver the national curriculum for at least 31% of their total teaching time.
Full-time unqualified teachers who meet this criteria are entitled to an annual allowance of $1500.
Application forms are available on the Ministry of Education website.
Loan Support Scheme
The Loan Support Scheme has been closed to new applicants from 2009 as it has been superseded by the Teacher Voluntary Bonding Scheme. However, those teachers who have received Loan Support Scheme payments in the past, and continue to meet the eligibility criteria, can apply for their next payment in the usual way. The 2009 Loan Support Scheme application forms are available to download below.
The Loan Support Scheme will cease from the beginning of 2011.
If you would like to find out more about the Teacher Voluntary Bonding Scheme, visit www.minedu.govt.nz/voluntarybondingscheme
Salaries
Collective agreements for secondary, primary and kindergarten teachers can be viewed on the Ministry of Education’s website or follow the direct link in the table below.
For other early childhood services, pay varies greatly and salaries are agreed in other types of collective agreements or by individual contracts.
More detailed information on some, but not all, early childhood collectives can be found on NZEI’s website.