Common use of Other teaching service Clause in Contracts

Other teaching service. 6.1. Other teaching service for salary purposes shall include an aggregate of all teaching service in the employment of: a university a registered initial teacher education provider a polytechnic a New Zealand registered private school a free kindergarten association and/or registered teacher-led early childhood centre; and/or an overseas school provided it was a state school or a school subject to state inspection subject to clause 6.3 below. 6.2. Full credit shall be granted where the service in clause 6.1 (a) to (f) above was as a certificated teacher or was a teacher who held the equivalent of a recognised New Zealand teaching qualification, otherwise where the service in clause 6.1(a) to (f) above was not as a certificated teacher or evidence of certification cannot be provided, half credit shall apply. 6.3. Overseas teachers who gain certification through either the Teaching Council’s comparable qualifications or core components pathways will be deemed to have met the requirements for certification from the date they completed that/those qualification(s). For the purposes of Appendix 6 clause 6.1, overseas teaching service will count from the date the NZQA deems those qualification(s) to have been completed. Relevant work experience (including overseas teaching service completed prior to that date) will be determined under Appendix 6 clause 7.1. 6.4. Overseas teachers who gain certification through the Teaching Council’s discretionary pathway will be deemed to have met the certification requirements from the date certification is granted in New Zealand. Overseas teaching service completed after the date certification is granted in New Zealand will be determined under Appendix 6 clause 6.1 and relevant work experience (including overseas teaching experience completed prior to the date certification is granted in New Zealand) will be determined under Appendix 6 clause 7.1.