Appendix 1.2
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| 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. | 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. | ||
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| + | '''Professional Update''' | ||
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| + | Professional Update has been introduced to support, maintain and enhance teachers' career-long professional learning. (These provisions are set by the GTCS) | ||
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| + | '''Protection of Vulnerable Groups(PVG)''' | ||
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| + | The Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme was introduced by the Scottish Government on 28 February 2011 and requires teachers and associated professionals who undertake regular work with children to be members of the appropriate PVG Scheme. | ||
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| + | '''Career-Long Professional Learning''' | ||
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| + | CLPL encompasses continuing professional development (CPD) and is the continuous process in which teachers engage throughout their careers. | ||
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| - | 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 term covers teachers registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) who are employed in a teaching capacity. This comprises teachers on the Main Grade Scale, probationer teachers, chartered teachers, principal teachers, depute headteachers and headteachers. |
| '''The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)''' | '''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. | + | The GTCS is an independent regulatory 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. |
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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.
Professional Update
Professional Update has been introduced to support, maintain and enhance teachers' career-long professional learning. (These provisions are set by the GTCS)
Protection of Vulnerable Groups(PVG)
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme was introduced by the Scottish Government on 28 February 2011 and requires teachers and associated professionals who undertake regular work with children to be members of the appropriate PVG Scheme.
Career-Long Professional Learning
CLPL encompasses continuing professional development (CPD) and is the continuous process in which teachers engage throughout their careers.
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 for Scotland (GTCS) who are employed in a teaching capacity. This comprises teachers on the Main Grade Scale, probationer teachers, chartered teachers, principal teachers, depute headteachers and headteachers.
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)
The GTCS is an independent regulatory 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.
