The Teaching Council

Help & Advice

• Pay & Pensions
  • Useful Information
  • Calculating Your Salary
  • Teachers’ Pay Scales
  • Update on Pension Contributions
  • Leadership Group Pay Guidance
  • Pay Progression
    • PRSD/Threshold
    • Upper Pay Scale Progression
  • Teaching Allowances
  • Acting Allowances
  • School Reorganisation Allowances
  • Planning Your Retirement
  • Changes to NITPS from 1 April 2015
  • Pension & Lump Sum Calculator
  • Your State Pension
  • Transfer of Pension
  • Application for Retirement Benefits
  • Application for Ill-health Retirement
• Rights & Conditions
  • Classroom Observation
  • Criminal Convictions
  • Data Protection Act
  • Flexible Working
  • Absences from school
    • Absence Due To Illness
    • Brief Absences
    • Career Breaks
    • Time Off for Family & Domestic Reasons
  • Maternity, Paternity, Adoption & Shared Parental Leave
  • Redundancy
    • Redundancy Guidelines
    • Procedure for Handling Teacher Redundancies
    • How to Calculate Your Redundancy Payment
    • School Reorganisation Agreement
  • Working Time & Professional Duties
    • INTO Guide to Working Time & Professional Duties
    • Substitute Cover
    • Workload Agreement
    • Directed Time Budgets
• Child Protection
  • Administration of Medicine
  • Child Protection & Safeguarding
  • Dealing with Allegations of Child Abuse
  • Guidelines on Taking Images
  • Social Media
• Wellbeing, Health & Safety
  • Teacher Health & Wellbeing
    • Bullying & Harassment
    • Teacher Protection
    • Teacher Stress
    • Health & Wellbeing
    • Inspire Wellbeing
    • THAW: Teachers’ Health & Wellbeing Strategy
    • Menopause in the Workplace
    • Health & Wellbeing Webinars
  • Teacher Health & Safety
    • Latest Guidance on COVID-19
    • Avoiding Allegations of Child Abuse
    • Working Time Regulations
  • Health & Safety in Schools
    • Class Sizes in Practical Subjects
    • Latest Guidance on COVID-19
    • Asbestos at Work
    • Heating Standards in Schools
    • Risk Assessment
  • Educational Visits
    • INTO Guidance
    • Helpful Documentation
• Procedures & Policies
  • Bullying & Harassment
  • Disciplinary
  • Grievance
  • Parental Complaints
  • Pupil Behaviour and School Discipline
  • Supporting Effective Leadership in Schools
  • Supporting Effective Teaching in Schools
  • Teacher Attendance Procedure
• Support for Teachers
  • Support for New Teachers
    • Catholic Teaching Certificate
    • Managing Behaviour
    • Social Media
    • Teaching in the Republic of Ireland
    • NISTR: Supply Teacher Register
    • GTC(NI): General Teaching Council
  • Support for Supply Teachers
    • Supply Teachers’ Pay & Conditions of Service
    • Supply Teachers’ Pensions
    • NISTR: Supply Teacher Register
    • GTC(NI): General Teaching Council
    • FAQs for Supply Teachers