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Benefits of Membership | Regional
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Membership
Association
membership is open to any person who holds a substantive Principal,
Assistant Principal or Leading Teacher position in a government secondary
school or who
is acting in one of those roles, Liaison Principals and Senior Education
Officers with principal class experience.
VASSP
represents the professional interests of over three quarters of
Victoria's principal class officers in state secondary schools.
Membership Benefits
Membership
of the Association provides the following services and advantages:
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logistical support for your welfare and well-being
- advice
and representation for you when branches or staff members lodge grievances
against you or when you are required to attend Merit Protection Board
hearings
- information
and advice on policy areas as diverse as resource management (staffing,
facilities, Student Resource Package, ICT), workforce planning, career
development, personal well being, educational leadership, managing
the Agreement, dispute resolution and leading a quality learning
environment
-
professional development programs
- a
hotline service through field officers to provide information, support and advice
- regular
meetings in your region which allow you to participate in a network
which directly serves your professional interests
- a
means by which your rights and interests as a professional principal
class officer can be collectively represented, advocated and supported
- opportunities
to participate in the association's decision-making processes at
local, regional and statewide levels.
-
project services support can be customised to your needs
The
Association works hard to lobby
DEECD, the Government and statutory bodies such as VIT and VCAA to
resource secondary schools appropriately, and to ensure that the educational
needs of the students in our schools are properly addressed. VASSP works
both with and on behalf of principal class officers to ensure that quality
learning environments in secondary schools are everyone's primary objective.
VASSP participates as a peak organisation in all of the consultation processes
that this government and its bureaucracies supervise. VASSP provides
a voice on behalf of Principal Class Officers at the highest levels.
Fees
General Membership:
Open to all Principal Class members of the Victorian Teaching Service
who hold substantive positions in secondary schools, are Senior Education
Officers or are displaced under certain conditions.
Fee: $540.80 per annum ($20.80 per fortnight).
Download
application form
Associate
Membership:
Open to members of the Victorian Teaching Service
who hold acting positions in the Principal Class, subject to application
and Committee approval.
Fee: $184 per annum.Associate
Membership: Leading Teachers
Open to members of the Victorian Teaching Service who hold
positions as Leading Teachers subject to application and Committee approval.
Fee $184 per annum
Download
application form
Honorary
Membership:
Open to retired
members and may be conferred on members of equivalent organisations from
interstate or overseas who are visiting or working in Victoria for more
than eight weeks.
Life
Membership:
Conferred
by the Association after special recognition.
Regional
Meetings
Non members are invited to attend meetings in their region. Please
contact the VASSP office or the secretary of your region
to confirm your attendance and for information on meeting dates and
meeting locations.
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