Appendix 1.2

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PART 1 APPENDIX 1.2 - DEFINITIONS

Associated Professionals

This comprises music instructors, educational psychologists, senior educational psychologists, depute principal educational psychologists, principal educational psychologists, education support officers, quality improvement officers and quality improvement managers.

Council

The term refers to Scottish councils and local authorities as employers and education authorities.

Director of Education

This means a Director of Education, Director of Children’s Services or equivalent – for example, a senior manager of a council, normally second tier, who has responsibility for education services.

Education Authority

Here the term includes self governing schools and directly managed schools.

Employees

This includes both teachers and associated professionals who are governed by the SNCT bargaining arrangements.

Job Share

A job share is where 2 people are employed to share the duties and responsibilities of one full-time position and the salary is allocated on a pro-rata basis.

Salary

Here it refers to the aggregate of a teacher’s pay but does not include any money receivable from an educational endowment or any additional allowance paid to a teacher serving outwith Scotland under an official scheme of interchange.

Teachers

The term covers teachers registered with the General Teaching Council (Scotland) (GTCS) who are employed in a teaching capacity. This comprises teachers on the Main Grade Scale, chartered teachers, principal teachers, depute headteachers and headteachers.

The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)

The GTCS is an advisory non departmental public body that is funded by the annual registration fee paid by registered teachers. The GTCS was set up under the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965.