Thursday, 4 September 2025
*Original Content was created in September 2024
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 PLD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Learning Objectives:
- Understand when and how to fulfil your mandatory reporting obligations as a school leader or board
- Learn from recent disciplinary decisions to ensure compliance with Teaching Council standards and processes
Chair
David Graham, Principal, Goodwood School
HEAR FROM THE TEACHING COUNCIL OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: Managing your Mandatory Reporting Requirements and Recent Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions
Teachers face complex ethical dilemmas and professional tensions every day. The overarching expectation is that every teacher will apply high professional standards and sound ethical decision-making in all their work, uphold the reputation of the teaching profession and maintain the trust of learners and their whanau.
In this session you will focus on the legal obligations of employers to make a mandatory report, an overview of the disciplinary process for teachers and some recent case study examples.
Presented by Kate Henderson, Lead Investigator, Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand and Tejal Panchal, Lawyer, Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand
Presenters
David Graham, Principal, Goodwood SchoolDavid Graham is an experienced school leader having led three primary schools across the Waikato. He is currently the principal of Goodwood School (a primary school of 400 students) and co-leader of Te Kahūi Ako o Te Oko Horoi, the Cambridge Community of Learning. David has recently returned from the United Kingdom where he worked with the Anna Freud Centre and the national Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) programme. His research investigated policy and programmes which support learners who are neurodiverse, their peers and teachers.
Tejal Panchal, Lawyer, Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand
Tejal is a lawyer at the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. Tejal helps to provide legal advice to the Council and its independent decision-making bodies, including the Complaints Assessment Committee and Competence Authority. Prior to joining the Council, Tejal worked in general legal practice, firstly at a medium firm in Lower Hutt and then a small practice in Wellington. Tejal has a background in litigation, particularly in the Family and District Courts.
