Primary teachers met in Masterton this week to discuss performance pay among a raft of other claims ahead of upcoming pay talks.
Beryl Thomson, Wairarapa branch president of the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), said about 60 teachers attended a meeting at Lakeview School yesterday and approved a claims package proposed by their union. It was the first of two Masterton primary teachers' meetings; the second of which is to involve a similar number of teachers at Masterton Primary School on June 27.
Teachers are being called to vote on taking to their talks in August a pay model that combines a new base scale with recognition of expert classroom teaching, Mrs Thompson says.
She said teachers were not opposed to performance pay but did not want performance to be "judged against National Standards achievements by pupils because that's not an even playing field".
NZEI lead organiser Denise Cornford said the union would "strongly oppose any performance pay system that linked teacher pay to student results".