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9 Int'l J. Educ. L. & Pol'y 131 (2013)
Reforming the Legal Status of Teachers in Poland

handle is hein.journals/ijelp9 and id is 131 raw text is: Reforming the Legal Status of Teachers in Poland Urszula Markowska-Manista* I. Which categories of teachers are distinguished in your country? Teachers working in state schools follow a precisely defined path of professional promotion and a salary range connected with that path. Particular levels of professional promotion are determined by the fulfilment of appropriate conditions. The Teacher's Charter (Karta Nauczyciela)' lists conditions necessary to obtain the successive levels of teachers' professional promotion under the Polish legal system. In Poland the Teacher's Charter defines the rule by which a person who has not yet obtained one of the stages of promotion established by this statute, on the day their employment contract commences obtains the entry level of a ,,trainee teacher. The Charter identifies the following stages of promotion for teachers: - Trainee teacher, - Contract teacher, - Nominated teacher, - Certified teacher. 131 The Polish law allows to employ a teacher granting a higher level of professional promotion than the initial level of a trainee teacher. The level of a contract teacher is granted to academic teachers who have at least three years' employment history at a higher education institution, or persons with at least five years' employment history and significant professional achievements. The level of a nominated teacher may be granted to academic teachers who, beginning their employment at a teacher training centre, already have a degree and at least three years' employment history at a higher education institution.2 In 2013 the Ministry of National Education introduced new regulations defining the procedure of teachers' professional promotion. They have been adjusted to the new regulations concerning the substitute care system. The legally binding promotion procedure is defined in the order of the Ministry of National Education of 1 March 2013 on obtaining professional promotion levels by teachers (Law Journal. pos. 393), which entered into force on 27 March 2013. The introduction of this regulation was necessary due to exclusion of teachers employed in public educational care centres and adoption-care centres from the scope of provisions of the Teacher's Charter. The legal basis of professional promotion is regulated by: - The statute of 26 January 1982 The Teacher's Charter - The Minister of National Education and Sport Order of 1 December 2004 referring to obtaining the levels of professional promotion by teachers. Urszula Markowska-Manista PhD, Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education Faculty of Pedagogical Science, Warsaw, Poland. umarkowska@aps.edu.pl Point no. 15 has been prepared in cooperation with Marta Ponikowska, MA (Educational Research Institute, m.ponikowska@ibe.edu.pl) 1 http://www.prawo.vulcan.edu.pl/przegdok.asp?qdatprz=akt&qplikid=2 2 More: http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1217/Poland-TEACHING-PROFESSION.html IJELP - 2013 - ISSUE 1-2

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