Probationers
Pensions For New Entrants
Last Updated: 30/06/2025Guidance for members entering teaching after 31 March 2015 A new scheme has been introduced which is termed a Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) scheme. This means that you will earn 1/57 of your pensionable pay for each year you are a member of the scheme. So to work out how much pension you will...
New Entrants to Teaching
Last Updated: 30/06/2025THE SSTA SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED SECONDARY TEACHERS 1. YOUR CLASSROOM - YOUR TERRITORY! As a novice secondary teacher, you will be nervous at the prospect of controlling, holding the attention of and maybe even educating up to 33 adolescents. Remember always that 90%+ of young people are keen to learn and come from...
Probationer Contact Time
Last Updated: 30/06/2025In 2011, the SNCT, of which the SSTA is a member, agreed a deal on teachers’ conditions which included reference to a teaching time of 0.82 FTE for probationers on the Teacher Induction Scheme (TIS). A fully-qualified teacher's contracted hours are 22.5 hours per week maximum contact time so the 0.82 FTE is equivalent to...
Probationers Contract of Employment
Last Updated: 30/06/2025General Issues The term "contract" is loosely used to mean those arrangements which exist between an employer and an employee which might be capable of being enforced by legal action. There is, however, for most teachers no single document which can be referred to as "my contract". Any employee's contractual terms are likely to be...
Your First Days in School
Last Updated: 30/06/2025Although there are variations from school to school, the following are some of the things that you might expect on joining a school as a Probationer or an experienced Teacher. SENIOR MANAGEMENT 1. On appointment, find out who in Senior Management has responsibility for the induction of new, and, in particular, probationer teachers and what...
Working with and Managing Pupil Support Auxiliaries
Last Updated: 02/07/2025Some Useful Pointers The following advice has been produced by the Association’s Additional Support Needs Advisory Panel: Preamble Teachers are responsible for devising strategies and for identifying appropriate methods for ensuring all pupils can access the curriculum. This includes strategies for the provision of differentiated teaching. Examples of differentiated teaching may include group teaching, differentiating...
