Work experience
As part of your application, you'll need to provide copies of documents that give evidence of your relevant past work experience.
Check with your principal whether previous teaching or work experience is relevant to your new role, before requesting information from a previous employer.
You'll need to provide a statement of service or other evidence for:
- paid employment as a teacher overseas, in the NZ private sector or early childhood sector
- paid or unpaid employment, related to the teaching position you work in or are about to work in, that doesn't qualify as teaching experience eg sports coaching
- Voluntary Service Abroad (VSA), if you held a teaching certificate while in your VSA teaching role.
Paid employment in a NZ state or state integrated school does not require documentation as it will already be recorded in the school's payroll.
Voluntary teaching experience (other than VSA) is not considered relevant for a salary assessment application.
You will need to provide your school with a certified copy of each work experience document, before your school emails it to Education Payroll with your completed Salary assessment for teachers form (EP7t).
Ministry of Education guidelines assess whether your previous employment qualifies as either teaching experience or work experience.