Rewarding Excellence in Teaching

Help us shape the policy to reward great teachers

The Rewarding Excellence in Teaching policy aims to recognise excellence in classroom teaching and strengthen teaching practice across NSW public schools.

The purpose of the work is to create a clear classroom teaching career pathway that values professional collaboration and effective teaching, and has two primary goals:

  • To leverage the skills of these highly effective teachers to strengthen teaching practice across the NSW Education system.
  • To attract more people into teaching and ensure our students have continued access to quality teachers who might otherwise leave the classroom.

The project team is using a wide-ranging consultation approach, including gathering the thoughts and feedback of the general public and members of our school communities. Please refer to the two-page summary that provides information on the proposed policy options. More details can be found in the full paper.

Thank you for your feedback

Thank you to everyone who participated. Read about the findings of the consultation process in a full report and quick summary.

Help us shape the policy to reward great teachers

The Rewarding Excellence in Teaching policy aims to recognise excellence in classroom teaching and strengthen teaching practice across NSW public schools.

The purpose of the work is to create a clear classroom teaching career pathway that values professional collaboration and effective teaching, and has two primary goals:

  • To leverage the skills of these highly effective teachers to strengthen teaching practice across the NSW Education system.
  • To attract more people into teaching and ensure our students have continued access to quality teachers who might otherwise leave the classroom.

The project team is using a wide-ranging consultation approach, including gathering the thoughts and feedback of the general public and members of our school communities. Please refer to the two-page summary that provides information on the proposed policy options. More details can be found in the full paper.

Thank you for your feedback

Thank you to everyone who participated. Read about the findings of the consultation process in a full report and quick summary.

  • Release of the Consultation Playback Report

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    Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Rewarding Excellence in Teaching consultation process.

    In total, we held over 269 different consultation sessions with thousands of teachers, school leaders and educational partners. This included 125 roundtables held across all NSW metropolitan, regional and rural principal networks, and 4,554 survey responses from employees of the department and members of the community.

    You can read about the findings of the consultation process in a full report and quick summary, both of which are accessible on the department web page.

    The findings of the consultation process have helped inform the next steps for the project. This will begin with an initial build, test and learn phase, which will commence at 52 schools who have opted in through a registration of interest process.

    Approximately 200 new roles will be in place in these schools from Term 3, 2023. These schools will help to co-design the policy, test how it works in their school context, and give feedback on what centralised support is required to help inform next steps.