Resource Teachers Learning and Behaviour

About the RTLB Service

Background

The Resource Teacher: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB) initiative was established in 1999 as part of the Special Education 2000 policy. The primary role of an RTLB is to work with and provide itinerant specialist support to students and teachers to improve the education outcomes for students with moderate learning and/or behaviour difficulties.

There are around 750 RTLB positions in 190 clusters around New Zealand. Of these, around 40 are RTLB Māori who provide support in Māori medium settings.

Following the Education Review Office's report in 2004, an RTLB Project Team was formed in the Ministry of Education. It produced the Resource Teacher: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB) Policy and Toolkit, released in 2007.

The Policy and Toolkit is available here: RTLB Policy and Toolkit. (Accessed 3rd September 2010: www.rtlb.tki.org.nz )

New Zealand Resource Teachers Association website can be linked to here for further information on the RTLB Service: http://www.nzrtlb.org.nz/

The following pdf documents include:

Our Annual Plan...

Our Vision...

What we do in the CHB cluster ....