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Child care and family commitments 2 1Time and workload restraints 2 1Lack of professional development in Māori 2 0Lack of support services e.g. Resource Teachers of Māori 1 0Location of professional development 1 4• Time restraints and workload restraints for wharekura teachers in specialist subjects.Small kura tend to have a limited amount of resources in which to manoeuvre intaking advantage of professional development opportunities.• Timing of professional development programmes. Teachers in Māori-mediumsettings have workload restraints and pressures that can make for very busy andstressful terms. They feel that they need the holidays to balance the work-lifepressures and to relax and re-energise for the next term.• Targeted programmes. Not being able to access professional developmentprogrammes in Māori or professional development designed to meet the needs ofMāori-medium teachers and students.• Location is an issue. Both teachers and principals prefer on–site delivery ofprofessional development programmes.• Professional development to help cross credit to degrees. All teachers have aminimum qualification of a diploma, but would like to do professional developmentthat will contribute to a Bachelor of Education or post graduate degree.• The shortage of suitable relievers is an issue. Non Māori speaking teachers aresometimes employed to relieve in Māori-medium classrooms. School managementdo not object to teachers splitting the class and putting extra students in otherteachers’ classrooms for a day. In mainstream schools, the classrooms are oftenEnglish-medium classrooms. Teachers sometimes thought management did it as amoney saving measure as well. In one school, management did not tell the teachersuntil that morning they had not been able to get a Māori speaking reliever andtherefore approached their regional multi-serve company to supply them with anEnglish speaking reliever for the day.Q17 Is availability and type of support and development available for you as a teacher afactor that you consider when thinking about your career?Q18 If yes, in what way? Would it affect whether or not you stay teaching? If no, whynot?Teachers were asked whether availability and type of support was a factor thatdetermined whether they would stay in the teaching profession. Nineteen of the 35teachers said that the availability and type of support and professional development is afactor.TABLE 27: TABLE SHOWING IF SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT ARE A FACTOR INTEACHER CAREER DEVELOPMENTAnswer Level 1 Level 2 Level 3/4 TotalYes 12 6 1 19No 11 1 4 1647