Text file: 8997.txt
author: jfp
downvotes: 9
end consideration date: 2018-03-08
id: '8997'
number comments: 13
number views: 4567
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport\nThe scope of\
  \ a teacher's educational work (in primary and music schools, in vocational education\
  \ and in grammar schools) is defined by the Act on the Organisation and Financing\
  \ of Education and Training. We explain how in the following answer.\nAccording\
  \ to the provisions of Article 119 of the Education and Vocational Education Act,\
  \ a teacher's work obligation includes:\n teaching and other forms of organised\
  \ work with pupils, apprentices, pupils or students of higher education institutions\
  \ (i.e. (i.e. teaching obligation), preparation for lessons (ongoing content and\
  \ methodological preparation, preparation of didactic aids), correction and evaluation\
  \ of products and other work necessary for the implementation of the educational\
  \ programme, which includes: cooperation with parents, participation in the school's\
  \ professional bodies, performance of the duties of a class teacher, organised professional\
  \ training and further training, collection and processing of data relating to the\
  \ performance of educational and other work, mentoring of pupils, apprentices, pupils\
  \ and students of the upper secondary school and cooperation with schools and higher\
  \ education institutions training professional staff, mentoring of trainees, tidying\
  \ up of classrooms, collections, school workshops, gymnasiums, playgrounds, allotments,\
  \ etc., organising cultural, sporting and other generally useful and humanitarian\
  \ actions involving pupils, apprentices or students, preparing and conducting excursions,\
  \ trips, competitions, nature schools, holidays, camps organised by the school and\
  \ other tasks laid down in the annual work plan.\nHereinafter referred to as \"\
  the EFLL\":\n Article 120 for primary and music schools stipulates that, within\
  \ the weekly full-time working hours established by law and by collective agreement,\
  \ a teacher's weekly teaching commitment shall be no more than 22 hours, and in\
  \ extended-stay and hospital wards no more than 25 hours; Article 121. Article 121\
  \ for vocational education stipulates that the weekly teaching obligation shall\
  \ be within the weekly full-time working hours laid down by law and by collective\
  \ agreement: a maximum of 20 hours for teachers of general education and theoretical\
  \ subjects, a maximum of 19 hours for teachers of the Slovene language, a maximum\
  \ of 19 hours for teachers of the Hungarian and Italian languages, a maximum of\
  \ 16 hours for lecturers at higher vocational schools, a maximum of 25 hours for\
  \ teachers of practical instruction and skills, and a maximum of 30 hours for professional\
  \ staff who have a teaching obligation or who participate in teaching; Article 122(1)(a)\
  \ of the EC Treaty provides that Article 122 for grammar schools stipulates that,\
  \ within the weekly full-time working hours established by law and by collective\
  \ agreement, the weekly teaching obligation is: for teachers of general education\
  \ and theoretical subjects, a maximum of 20 hours; for teachers of the Slovene language,\
  \ a maximum of 19 hours; for teachers of the Hungarian and Italian languages, a\
  \ maximum of 19 hours; for teachers of practical instruction and skills, a maximum\
  \ of 25 hours; and for other professional staff with teaching obligations or who\
  \ participate in teaching, a maximum of 30 hours.\nIf it is not possible to organise\
  \ teaching in accordance with the subject-matter within the weekly teaching obligation\
  \ laid down by law, the head teacher may give a teacher or other professional staff\
  \ member an additional weekly teaching obligation of as many hours as is laid down\
  \ for each subject in the department, but not more than five hours, or a reduction\
  \ in the weekly teaching obligation, but not more than three hours.\nHowever, Article\
  \ 5 of the Regulation on norms and standards for the implementation of educational\
  \ programmes and educational curricula in the field of secondary education, to which\
  \ you refer and which is the basis for the provision of funds to public institutions,\
  \ which sets out the teaching obligation of a teacher, merely reproduces the provisions\
  \ of Articles 121 and 122 of the Education Act.\nThe regulations in question cover\
  \ the teaching obligations of teaching assistants (as already mentioned, they are\
  \ regulated in the same way as in the FCPEI), the working or teaching obligations\
  \ of the head teacher and assistant head teacher, the criteria for the creation\
  \ of an advisory service, a library, an administrative, accounting and technical\
  \ service, and the criteria for the creation of departments and groups. However,\
  \ before establishing norms and standards, the Minister must, in accordance with\
  \ Article 84(1) of the FCVEA, obtain the opinion of the competent professional council\
  \ and the representative trade unions in the field of education.\nYour proposal,\
  \ if we understand correctly, concerns a different regulation of the teaching obligation\
  \ as one of the components of a teacher's work obligation. This is already 40 hours,\
  \ as is the case for all other full-time employees. The teaching obligation and\
  \ the tasks that a teacher has in addition to teaching are defined and laid down\
  \ in the FCSE and in the Regulations on norms and standards for the implementation\
  \ of educational programmes and educational programmes in the field of secondary\
  \ education. We consider that the teaching obligation is adequately regulated. We\
  \ are not considering amending the existing legislation in the way you suggest.\n\
  \ "
response date: 2018-04-03
response due date: null
sent date: 2018-02-15
title: Wages and work in secondary schools
upvotes: 21
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/8997
