Additional funding - RTLB clusters and attached teachers
Additional payments are made to boards that manage cluster resources or have attached teachers. These payments are limited to the officially approved positions of:
- Resource Teacher Learning and Behaviour (RTLB)
- Resource Teacher Literacy (RTLit)
- Resource Teacher Literacy: Māori (RTLit:Māori)
- Resource Teacher Māori (RTM)
- Resource Teacher Hearing Impaired (RHI)
- Resource Teacher Vision Impaired (RVI)
- Itinerant Teachers of Music (ITM)
- Regional Health School Teacher
- Supplementary Learning Support (SLS).
Administration
grant
This is a standard grant per officially approved position. It is
paid to the fundholder board in a cluster, or to the board to
which the teacher is attached.
The funding is provided for administration, cleaning, telephone
and fax lines, cell phones, ongoing professional development
costs and so on.
Travel grant
This is paid to boards of schools with officially approved
itinerant positions. It is paid to the fundholder board in each
cluster, or the board to which the teacher is attached, and is
provided for travel in relation to servicing schools, teachers
and students.
Boards should ask attached teachers to present a travel programme
for approval at the beginning of the year so that an estimate of
the annual cost of travel can be made to ensure the cost can be
met from the board’s budget.
There are five travel grant funding rates, see
Appendix 1 - Table N. Changes to the level of travel grant
for positions are by application.
The Resource Teacher Travel Application Form is available
here.
Boards must note the relevant reimbursement provisions in the
current teacher collective agreements (CAs) and the relevant
income tax requirements. Boards are also responsible for
recording the detailed information that is necessary to meet tax
requirements. Information about the tax requirements can be
accessed from
Inland Revenue’s website.
RTLB learning support
funding
This funding is provided to the board of the fundholder school in
each cluster. Funding is calculated using the roll and decile of
each school in the cluster.
Funding is provided for:
- educational support (eg, assistance to students needing
individual support but not meeting the criteria for other special
education initiatives)
- release time for classroom teachers to meet with RTLB
- professional development for departments, syndicates or
schools to enhance skills in behaviour management or curriculum
development.
RTLB year 11-13+
To encourage flexibility and allocation of resources on a
priority basis across a broader community of interest, funding is
provided to clusters to support students in years 11–13+ who have
learning and behaviour difficulties.
This cluster funding is calculated using the roll and decile of
each school in the cluster.