The Irish National Teachers Organisation is to submit a long list of claims to the review body which has been set up under the new national pay agreement.
The general secretary of the INTO, Senator Joe O'Toole, said his union would be submitting "a long shopping list of claims which will have to be considered".
The review or bench-marking body, established under the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness (PPF), can consider productivity-related issues in the public service and will come into being in the third year of the agreement.
Senator O'Toole told the national conference for primary school principals, that principals' allowances should be increased in line with the levels obtained by those with similar levels of responsibility in the private and public sectors.
"We will also be claiming parity of principals' allowances as between primary and post-primary sectors," he said. "We will be claiming proper recognition and reward for promoted teachers," he added.
He said another issue to be submitted to the body was that "additional duties, responsibilities and functions which have been added to the already comprehensive role of the teacher, be rewarded by an improved pay scale".
He said that while the PPF agreement would give all new graduate teachers a job "we must also give them some hope of being able to purchase a home".
He said to do this the "incremental scale" which means it takes 24 years for teachers to reach the highest grade of pay must be addressed. "It is a relic of other times and has no place in the modernised, efficient and accountable education sector envisaged in the PPF," said Senator O'Toole.
He also told delegates a package of measures for teaching principals was recently agreed with the Department of Education and Science. From September principals of eight-teacher schools with 210 pupils would be relieved of full-time teaching duties and become administrative principals, he said.
He added that from September next year principals of seven-teacher schools with 180 pupils would be relieved of full-time teaching duties and become administrative principals. Several other concessions allowing for release from classroom duties for the teaching principal had been won.