Northern Ireland's five teaching unions have agreed to postpone any further strike action after meeting the education minister.
They said talks about wage increases will begin in the next few days, but they would not be postponing any action short of a strike.
In November, teaching unions announced five days of strike action as part of a long-running dispute over pay.
Two of these went ahead, taking place on 29 November and 18 January.
After meeting the unions, Education Minister Paul Givan said negotiations over pay will hopefully begin next Tuesday.
The UK government is due to release a £3.3bn package now that power sharing has been restored at Stormont, about £580m of which is to settle public-sector pay claims.
Justin McCamphill, National Official at the NASUWT, told BBC NI's Evening Extra programme that the unions had been developing plans for three days of strike action before Easter.
"We're in a different circumstance now," he said.
"Devolution has been restored, we have an education minister, and we have pay negations which will be commencing soon."
However, he warned the education minister that without a "significant pay increase" teachers "will be back on strike action".
"Teachers haven't had a pay increase in three years," Mr McCamphill added.
