INTO & the Teaching Profession Information for Education Graduates - 20 Bealtaine, 2021 Aoife Ní Mhaoláin, Education Official

INTO & the Teaching Profession
           Information for Education
                  Graduates

         20 Bealtaine, 2021
Aoife Ní Mhaoláin, Education Official

Finding your feet
✓About INTO?

✓Why join INTO?

✓How do I become a member of
 INTO?

About INTO
Founded by Vere Foster in
1868

“A nation’s greatness
depends on the education of
its people”.

About INTO
➢Largest teachers’ trade union in Ireland (over 50,000
 members)

➢INTO Officials in Head Office negotiate on behalf of members

➢Central Executive Committee (CEC) – elected
 representatives

➢INTO Branches all over the country

➢INTO Staff Representative (Staff Rep.) in every school

Which District are you in and who is your CEC Representative?

Channels of communication

             CEC Rep.

Staff Rep.              INTO Head Office

Motions passed (Resolutions)
                                                     INTO Congress 2021
✓   Covid-19

✓   Class Size

✓   Special Education

✓   Reproductive Health

✓   Occupational Health related matters

✓   Workload

✓   ICT funding

✓   DEIS

✓   Communication from the Department of Education

✓   Equal employment opportunities

Guidance   •
           •
               Appointment procedures
               Employment contracts
for        •
           •
               Duties and responsibilities
               Staff and BOM relations

teachers   •
           •
               Positive parent-teacher relations
               Discipline
           •   Complaints/Allegations Against Teachers
           •   Child protection issues
           •   Health and Safety
           •   Leave entitlements
           •   Financial – salary & pensions

Important points for newly
qualified teachers
Registration with The Teaching Council

Garda Vetting

Appointment procedures

Droichead

INTO Help and Advice section

Spectrum Life

Teaching Council
• Route 1 – Primary. Initial reg. fee of €90 Requirements:
  • Qualifications
  • Vetting
• Annual re-registration is €65 p.a.
• www.teachingcouncil.ie
• Register prior to taking up a temporary or permanent job
  *without this you can not be paid.
• Subbing – 5 day rule applies without registration

Garda Vetting
• You cannot work in a school without Garda vetting

• In the calendar year that you are due to graduate you can apply to be
 vetted on the Teaching Council’s website (e-vetting)

• Will speed up your registration process when you qualify

• Garda vetting for teaching practice placements is not sufficient to
 engage in substitute work

Appointment Procedures

• Fixed Term >24 weeks – Advertised

• Fixed Term

Appointment Procedures (contd.)
• Made by Board of Management
• Open competition
   • Advert – online and in national newspapers
   • Selection Board
   • Assessment of Applicants
   • Interviews
   • Appointment by B.O.M.
   • Notifies successful candidate/ notifies other candidates

Employment status
   Permanent / C.I.D. (contract of indefinite
                     duration)

                 Temporary
   (normally one-year contracts e.g. Career
   break, secondment or job share)

                 Substitute
            Casual (40 days in a school
            year)

Routes to permanency
1.Contract of Indefinite Duration (CID) – in excess of 2 years service in same
 school with a viable post in the third year

2.Supplementary Panel – 3 years – all service counts

3.Open Competition
Benefits of permanency:
   ✓job/financial security
   ✓Career break/secondment

Droichead
• Change of focus from probation to induction, and from evaluation to
  support - “Progression not perfection”

• Post of a minimum of 60 consecutive school days
• Must attend 3 NIPT induction seminars and complete 1
  professional learning activity

• Apply by sending Form DR 1 to the Teaching Council
• Reflective practice, mentoring & professional conversations
  supported by Professional Support Team (PST)

NIPT – National Induction Programme
for Teachers

NIPT (contd.)
Purpose: To support the professional growth of
teachers during the induction phase
Vision: Quality induction for every teacher
Motto: To ask for support is a sign of strength

Salary
✓ Primary and Post Primary paid on same pay scale
✓ Graduate as of 1 October 2020 will start on €37,692 (point 1 of the
  scale)
✓ Increasing up to €70,795 (Over 25 years)
✓ Salary is paid every second Thursday from the Department of Education
  (DE) Payroll Section
✓ All qualified substitute work counts towards increments (moving up the
  pay scale) and service for Supplementary Panel
✓ 183 school days = 1 school year
✓ Holiday pay paid in respect of each day worked

Union involvement
• Opportunity to meet colleagues and
  network, to share best practice
  and professional insights

• Professional development –
  conference workshops, summer
  courses, training seminars

• Effect change & safeguard
  professionalism – staff representative,
  branch meetings, conferences and
  Congress.

Joining INTO
New Members
   • First three months free
   • Then a percentage of salary (0.75%) will be deducted from salary each
     fortnight

Join Online
              http://www.into.ie/ROI/AboutINTO/JoinINTO

Staying connected

Website and members’ portal

   Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

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