1. OUR PATH TO THE FUTURE

3. Building coherence Values Professional standards
Code of Professional responsibility
Teacher preparation
Professional development
Leadership strategy
Sharing practice

4. Enabling a rich collaborative culture
In your centre
Across your community
In your area of interest or expertise
Across ECE, primary, secondary and tertiary
Across practitioners, academics, PLD facilitators, researchers

5. Values developed with the profession
These values underpin the Code and Standards. They define, inspire and guide us as teachers.
WHAKAMANA: empowering all learners to reach their highest potential by providing high quality teaching and leadership.
MANAAKITANGA: creating a welcoming, caring and creative learning environment that treats everyone with respect and dignity
PONO: showing integrity by acting in ways that are fair, honest, ethical and just.
WHANAUNGATANGA: engaging in positive and collaborative relationships with our learners, their families and whānau, our colleagues and the wider community.

6. Standards developed with the profession

7. Code developed with the profession

8. Teacher preparation FUTURE FOCUSED ITE PROPOSALS
Expanding postgraduate pathways
Setting clear Standards for graduating teachers and greater confidence in assessment of graduate outcomes
Raising entry requirements – higher literacy and numeracy
Strengthening the quality of practica arrangements
More flexible programmes – that prepare teachers to teach across different ranges of year levels
LATER IN 2017 WILL PROGRESS
Managed pathways from graduation to full certification
A stronger focus on graduate outcomes in programme approval. review and monitoring – over time
Manage the supply of new graduates to better meet future workforce trends
A more collaborative and coherent network of provision – to ensure overall system needs are met.

9. Leadership WHAT WE WILL DO
Working with our new ECE advisory group to provide a leadership focus for next year
Developing a coherent leadership strategy for the whole profession to support and grow leaders and leadership across the profession
Providing leadership development for COL leaders
Providing online content for all leaders
2017/18
Strategy will inform future actions and investment in leadership development
Government funded PLD will transition to the Council over time

10. Requirement to report Sections 392 to 395 of the Education Act 1989
Employers must immediately report to the Education Council:
All dismissals
If, within the 12 months before a resignation or expiry of a fixed term position, the employer has advised the teacher that it was dissatisfied with, or intended to investigate, any aspect of the teacher’s conduct or competence
If the employer has reason to believe the teacher has engaged in serious misconduct
Despite undertaking competence procedures, the teacher has not met the required level of competence