New Zealand Schools OER Portal/Governance/Staff Representative

Responsibilities

• Is responsible for the links between the Board and the school staff.

Tasks

• To express the views and decisions of the staff to the board.
• To communicate the decisions and direction of the Board to the staff.

• Guides these policies and procedures:

Assessment Reporting

• The Staff trustee reports the views of the staff on issues under discussion (agenda items), and reports to staff on decisions of the Board.

• The staff representative must ensure that there are ‘no surprises’ at board meetings.

• The relationship between staff trustee and principal is very important.

• The staff trustee is bound by the same principles as all the other trustees.