Beginning teachers require additional release time to meet the plethora of professional responsibilities they encounter. Check your entitlements below (Catholic systemic schools). Please contact your IEU Organiser if you believe the release is not being provided.
Armidale
CSO Armidale will provide an allocation of 18 days per beginning teacher to assist the beginning teacher by providing extra release time for planning, programming and consultation and to release other staff members for the specific purpose of assisting the beginning teacher.
Bathurst
A beginning teacher is one who is appointed with CEDB and has met the graduate teacher standards of NESA and will be either Provisionally Accredited or Conditionally Accredited to teach in NSW.
Support will be provided to beginning teachers by the provision of one hour of release per week for each beginning teacher and one hour of release for each appointed mentor to participate in a school based program.
This time can be accumulated and used at a time agreed to by the school’s beginning teacher mentor.
Broken Bay – primary and secondary
The CSO provides a share release allocation of 16 days to all early career teachers to work with a supervisor/coach over the first two years of their teaching career. The release is allocated as eight days in Year 1 and eight days in Year 2 and is pro-rated for part time appointments. The release is to be used for meetings between the early career teacher and their supervisor/coach, observing in colleagues’ classrooms, being observed by the supervisor/coach, working with specialist coaches, collection and preparation of evidence for accreditation at Proficient.
Canberra-Goulburn
A 0.1 allocation per year is available for the mentoring program for early career teachers. The program will be provided to early career teachers who have been appointed at 0.5 FTE or greater for a minimum of two terms. The employer will ensure that the teacher and their mentor are informed on commencement of the support that is available.
Lismore
Year 1 - 16 days in the first year – four of these are systems days.
Year 2 eight days in the second year – four of these are system days.
Primary Schools Mentor allocation is 10 days per year shared between the selected mentors. It is strongly encouraged that primary schools designate one person to be the mentor of the identified graduate teachers.
Secondary schools mentor allocation is 10 days per year with a maximum of 30 days per year allocated for schools with a higher number of graduates.
Maitland-Newcastle
The employer will implement a program of support and mentoring Provisionally and Conditionally Accredited teachers. The allocation of 0.05 FTE (1/2 a day per fortnight pro rata for part time teachers) release time will be provided to each Provisionally and Conditionally Accredited teacher other than casuals in their initial year of service with the employer and 0.05 FTE (1/2 a day per fortnight) release time for the teacher’s mentor (pro rata for part time teachers. If this release is not completely used in the initial year the remaining time may be used in the second year, particularly in the case of a teacher whose service has been part time or has consisted of temporary blocks. Release days will only be available up until Proficient level is attained.
Parramatta
CEDP will provide an allocation of 18 days per beginning teacher to assist the beginning teacher by providing release time for planning, programming and consultation and to release other staff members for the specific purpose of assisting the beginning teacher.
Up to four of the 18 days allocated may be used to support the beginning teacher’s attendance at induction sessions provided by CEDP. Similiarly, some of the allocation can be used to assist with mentoring to support the attendance of the supervisor(s) / mentor(s) within the school at induction sessions.
Sydney Catholic Schools – primary and secondary
Additional release from face to face teaching will be provided to support graduate teachers, by providing 12 days release per teacher from the commencement of employment of which, one day is to participate in the SCS’s new teacher orientation day, seven days for teacher support and four days for the teacher’s supervisor. The principal will consult with the graduate teacher on commencement and the supervisor as to how the seven days and four days are to be scheduled; provided that such days shall be directed to assist the teacher in meeting Proficient Teacher accreditation requirements.
Wagga Wagga – primary and secondary
Provisionally or Conditionally Accredited (graduate) teachers and their mentors are entitled to four in school release days in their first year and two days out of school. The mentor is entitled to four in school release days and one out of school. In the second year the teacher is entitled to four in school release days and two outside school and the mentor gets two in school release days and two outside school.
Also, for secondary teachers, any full time or part time teacher classified as Provisional or Conditionally Accredited (graduate) will be exempt from allocation of extras as per clause 3.5 during the first 12 months of their employment.
Wollongong
A loading of 0.075 FTE is available for each full time beginning teacher on 1.0 FTE in their first year of teaching. This may be prorated for staff not on full time or on less than 1.0FTE. 0.075 FTE equates to a total of 15 days, five of which may be utilised by the CEO for the purposes of providing induction, mentoring support, classroom management, programming support and religious education formation.
Five days must be used by the school to assist the beginning teacher by providing extra release time for planning, programming and consultation, and the balance of five days used to release other staff for mentoring activities directed at assisting the beginning teacher.
A loading of 0.025 FTE is available for each full time beginning teacher on 1.0 FTE in their second year of teaching. This may be prorated for staff not on full time or on less than 1.0FTE. 0.025 equates to five days. These days must be used by the school to assist the beginning teacher by providing extra release time for planning, programming and consultation, and may also be used to release the mentor(s) for the purpose of assisting the beginning teacher.
Wilcannia-Forbes
Has no Work Practice Agreement for beginning teachers.