General Areas of Responsibility consultation for kaiako and tumuaki (9 September – 18 October)

As part of your pay equity claim process, the consultation for the General Areas of Responsibility document opens on Monday 9 September.

This document provides a summary of the responsibilities identified by kaiako and tumuaki who were interviewed for the pay equity claim.

Now, we need you to review it and then fill in the gaps to complete the picture. If something you do is not in the document, that means it wasn’t captured in an interview.

It’s important that we, as a teaching profession, take the time to complete this step to ensure that we build a strong picture of teaching before we enter the next stage of the pay equity process.

Chat to your worksite representative or your local Mana Taurite champion to find out what time you and your colleagues are meeting to discuss the document.

To learn more about our Mana Taurite | Pay Equity campaign click here.

More resources will be added to this page in the coming weeks – so be to check back!

Register for a webinar to learn more about the consultation process and how it works.

At the webinar you’ll learn:

• Why this consultation period is critical to the success of our pay equity claim
• How the consultation process works
• How to champion it at your school, kura, kindergarten or ECE centre to ensure your colleagues get involved too

We have created a summary of the general areas of responsibility document for easy reference. Click here to read.

You can find more information about the GARs and pay equity here.

• You can complete the submission individually or as a group.
• If you are short on time you can give feedback on just one or a few parts of the document.
• Share the load and get a few people at work to do a section each. 
• Print off the summary document so that you have a quick read guide.
• It's easy to complete the survey on your phone.
• You can come back to the survey later if returning to the same browser.

The Hui Whakamana are a consultation option for kaiako and tumuaki working in kura kaupapa Māori, kura ā-Iwi, puna reo, Māori immersion and bi-lingual settings as well as te reo Māori kaiako | teachers in English medium settings. Kaiako and tumuaki are invited to the hui to consider the responsibilities drawn from the interviews in kaupapa Māori education settings and identify any missing responsibilities or confirm what was found. The opportunity to register an interest for online hui will be available when the consultation opens. The online hui will be offered from week 2 of the consultation period. Each hui will run for approximately 2 ½ hours and will be outside of teaching hours.

We have created a step-by-step guide on how to run a worksite meeting to update people on our pay equity claim during consultation in September and October 2024.

You can find it here.

We’ve produced a resource, When You See Me, to get us all talking about the skills and knowledge behind every task we do.

Get together with your colleagues, fill it out, and share it on social media. Let’s spread the word about our mahi and the value of teaching!

See some examples here:


PHOTOS OF EXAMPLES


How to use When You See Me

• Download the resource.
• Print out (in A3) one of the blank When You See Me pages.
  
• Chat to your colleagues and reflect on your work.
  
• Choose one task that you do and write that under ‘When You See Me...’.
  
• Think about the skills and knowledge that task requires and write that under ‘I am...’.

Note: It’s best to use a thick pen such as a vivid so it is clear to see

Fill out the resource, scan/snap a pic or, record a video sharing your When You See Me story

Send it to us at payequity@nzei.org.nz and post it on social media, tagging @NZEITeRiuRoa on both Facebook and Instagram. We’ll share it on our social pages too!

So that your message can be read loud and clear, you can also take a close up of the poster to really get your message across.

• Download the resource.
• Print out (in A3) one of the blank When You See Me pages.
• Chat to your colleagues and reflect on your work.
• Choose one task that you do and write that under ‘When You See Me...’.
• Think about the skills and knowledge that task requires and write that under ‘I am...’.

Note: It’s best to use a thick pen such as a vivid so it is clear to see.

Fill out the resource, scan/snap a pic or, record a video sharing your When You See Me story.

So that your message can be read loud and clear, you can also take a close up of the poster to really get your message across.

Send it to us at payequity@nzei.org.nz and post it on social media, tagging @NZEITeRiuRoa on both Facebook and Instagram. We’ll share it on our social pages too!

Print out this poster and put it up on your noticeboard to let your colleagues know when your meeting time is.

You can either edit the text directly in the pdf or print it out and write on it.

Click here to download poster.

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