quadro de zona pedagógica
Published 8 November 2026, 20:08
quadro de zona pedagógica (QZP) — area teaching staff
Teachers attached not to one school but to a whole area: they are sent wherever lessons in their subject are not covered. Areas where teachers are particularly scarce are called shortage areas (carenciados), and work there comes with extra pay.
Where you come across it. The teacher recruitment competition, allocation to schools, extra pay for working in shortage areas.
A teacher on area staff may be moved to a different school every year, but it is in shortage areas that the supplements apply: for example, €750 a month for those who are already entitled to retire but keep teaching.
Official website: portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc25/area-de-governo/educacao-ciencia-e-inovacao