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National Standards from the Support Staff Perspective

National Standards from the Support Staff Perspective. Use of Volunteers. Will volunteers be needed? e.g. the need for more parent helpers. Will these volunteers be taking OUR Support Staff jobs and who will train these people?. Narrowed Curriculum.

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National Standards from the Support Staff Perspective

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  1. National Standardsfrom the Support Staff Perspective

  2. Use of Volunteers • Will volunteers be needed? e.g. the need for more parent helpers. • Will these volunteers be taking OUR Support Staff jobs and who will train these people?

  3. Narrowed Curriculum • A narrowed curriculum will see Support Staff spending time integrating students who have poor social skills . • This will be taking precious time away from learning.

  4. Disruptive Behaviour • Children become frustrated at being labelled failures and exhibit disruptive behaviours that will require support by Support Staff.

  5. More Data and Paperwork • Admin Staff with already huge workloads may find they are called on to help teachers with extra data input and paper work overload.

  6. more Support Staff • More Support Staff may be needed to work with children who are not meeting the standard and to carry out extra work in relation to record keeping and reporting. • There is no specific funding allocated to provide these extra staff or to train them or existing staff.

  7. Extra Responsibility • Teacher aides could end up working with more children or bigger groups of children.

  8. Blame or accountability • Teacher Aides could end up taking the blame for children not achieving and reaching the standards.

  9. Failure • Schools may not label students as failures when they do not meet the standards, but the students will feel like failures resulting in more behaviour problems causing larger workloads for Support Staff.

  10. Extra Workload • If my school employs relievers to try and address the issue of under achieving students, my workload of administering them will have a huge impact on my productivity.

  11. Larger Groups • Larger groups means behaviour management issues. • Less one on one attention. • We will be failing the children with the inability to do our jobs.

  12. Loss of hours and Jobs • Support Staff could be replaced by extra teachers being employed to raise the children’s learning to the required National Standards level. • For us that may mean less hours or total loss of hours.

  13. Less hours / More work • Bigger groups of children to work with to get them to the required National Standard level. • But no extra money in the Operation Grant to give the necessary hours of employment to try and achieve this.

  14. Productivity • National Standards will increase my productivity. • YEAH RIGHT!!

  15. Issues within Kura Kaupapa • I oritetonungararu • All of the issues for Support Staff in mainstream also affect Support Staff in Kura Kaupapa.

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