The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association, representing 8500 secondary teachers in Scotland, today criticised the withdrawal of education support from some pupils who are diagnosed as having special education needs and have identified support requirements. The SSTA General Secretary, Ann Ballinger, today criticised the loss of dedicated auxiliary support from such pupils. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE "It is only relatively recently that many of the young people involved lost their principal educational resource when their special school…
Teacher Workload Survey 2009
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New 2 Teaching (N2T) Group
The Association has created a new closed peer support network on Facebook which is open to all members who are in their first 10 years of their career. The New to Teaching Network is: open to all teachers (in the first 10 years of their career irrespective of age), NQTs and student members a peer to peer web based community on Facebook for new teachers sharing, advice and help. a social grouping that can meet in various activities outwith the…
Bulletin no 415/09 19 October 2009
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Code of Practice on the Role of the Chartered Teacher - SNCT-09-14
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Congress 2009 Newsletter
This newsletter contains an overview of events at the Assoications annual Congress held in Peebles on 15/16 May 2009. The full text of the motions passed at Congress can be seen in the May 2009 Bulletin.
Restructuring of the GTC
The Consultation The most important consultation exercise the profession has been involved in within the last twenty years is to be undertaken this year. It does not relate to the curriculum, to conditions or to faculty arrangements: it relates to the structure and operation of the GTC (or GTCS as it has become). There must be no mistaking the intent: what is proposed is a radical change, intended to reduce the influence of teachers on the GTC. The Government did…
Bulletin no 414/09 - 31 May 2009
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SSTA Attacks SNCT Agreement on Chartered Teacher Status
The Association today attacked the agreement reached by the SNCT on 27 May relating to the "Role of the Chartered Teacher". The SNCT agreed a Code of Practice which the SSTA representatives vigorously opposed. General Secretary, Ann Ballinger led the opposition: "Since the first days of Chartered Teacher status the employers have been determined to assign duties to CT status. The SSTA has opposed this from the outset: the post-McCrone agreement is totally clear that the contractual duties of Chartered…
Presidential Address - Annual Congress 15/16 May 2009
President's Address Peebles 15 May 2009 Congress, Guests, Colleagues, Congress may recall that last year the part of my speech reported in the press was the section on bullying. I discussed the effect bullying had on staff and the need for all of us to stand up to bullies and support victims. Although I was prepared for the response in the press, particularly from those who have a vested interest in denying that such problems could every exist, I was…
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