URL: Teaching programme to fast-track new graduates
TVNZ
... new graduates into classrooms in as little as six weeks. Teach First New Zealand and the University of Auckland plan to recruit 20 people with degrees, who they will place straight into the classroom at low decile schools to learn on the job.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Fast track teachers programme praised - Newstalk ZB
 3News NZ | URL: Fast track teachers programme praised Newstalk ZB Professor John Hattie, from the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education concedes it's an expensive programme but says its already working very well in Australia. "The principals who employ them, are extremely happy with these people, ... |
Commerce Commission releases second issues paper on high speed broadband demand-side study
URL: Commerce Commission releases second issues paper on high speed broadband demand-side study
The Commerce Commission has today released the second of three issues papers relating to the uptake of high speed broadband ahead of a public conference in February 2012. The paper is in two parts and examines the potential demand for high speed broadband from the education and health sectors.
The Commerce Commission has today released the second of three issues papers relating to the uptake of high speed broadband ahead of a public conference in February 2012. The paper is in two parts and examines the potential demand for high speed broadband from the education and health sectors.
Teachers ready for broadband challenge - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Teachers ready for broadband challenge
Stuff.co.nz
But it said while teachers had been skilled up over the past 10 years and most were willing to ''leave their comfort zones'', the same could not be said for teacher training institutions which were ''behind the times''. The report is one of a series of ...
Stuff.co.nz
But it said while teachers had been skilled up over the past 10 years and most were willing to ''leave their comfort zones'', the same could not be said for teacher training institutions which were ''behind the times''. The report is one of a series of ...
Teachers will benefit from broadband scheme - The Dominion Post
URL: Teachers will benefit from broadband scheme
The Dominion Post
Newman said it was foreseeable most students would have a digital device such as an iPad at school in the near future. "One area that arose repeatedly as a serious concern ... was the perception that our colleges of education are many years behind the ...
The Dominion Post
Newman said it was foreseeable most students would have a digital device such as an iPad at school in the near future. "One area that arose repeatedly as a serious concern ... was the perception that our colleges of education are many years behind the ...
High demand for better broadband in schools - paper - Voxy
 Voxy | URL: High demand for better broadband in schools - paper Voxy There is already significant demand for connectivity in schools from students who use their own devices to do school research online, for social media and multimedia purposes, and for other educational purposes. This demand will increase as many ... |
Health and education to boost UFB uptake - MSN NZ News
URL: Health and education to boost UFB uptake
MSN NZ News
The government ring-fenced $150 million to invest in schools as part of its $1.5 billion programme to roll out a nationwide broadband network. Primary and secondary schools are already showing signs of "pent-up demand for connectivity" as students with ...
MSN NZ News
The government ring-fenced $150 million to invest in schools as part of its $1.5 billion programme to roll out a nationwide broadband network. Primary and secondary schools are already showing signs of "pent-up demand for connectivity" as students with ...
Education will lead health in UFB demand says ComCom - Computerworld New Zealand
Voxy | URL: Education will lead health in UFB demand says ComCom Computerworld New Zealand By Michael Foreman | Auckland | Tuesday, 24 January, 2012 There is already “significant demand for connectivity” from school students who use their own devices, and this demand will increase as more schools provide devices, concludes the second of ... |
The NZC Treaty of Waitangi Principle
URL: The NZC Treaty of Waitangi Principle
This Update focuses on the New Zealand Curriculum principle of the Treaty of Waitangi and its implications for teaching, learning, and the school curriculum.
This Update focuses on the New Zealand Curriculum principle of the Treaty of Waitangi and its implications for teaching, learning, and the school curriculum.
Editorial: School lunch should be a local decision
URL: Editorial: School lunch should be a local decision
The Social Welfare Minister is out on the road, listening to people who have read her green paper on child abuse. At her first public meeting, in Kaitaia this week, Paula Bennett heard a case for providing children at school with...
The Social Welfare Minister is out on the road, listening to people who have read her green paper on child abuse. At her first public meeting, in Kaitaia this week, Paula Bennett heard a case for providing children at school with...
Farm courses on offer - Manawatu Standard
URL: Farm courses on offer
Manawatu Standard
The rural industry needs 3000 new employees to cope with growth, says Land Based Training business development and marketing manager Paula Jonker. And the training school wants to be part of that by offering a new programme. Land Based Training has ...
Manawatu Standard
The rural industry needs 3000 new employees to cope with growth, says Land Based Training business development and marketing manager Paula Jonker. And the training school wants to be part of that by offering a new programme. Land Based Training has ...
Digital devices add to parents' back-to-school blues - Waikato Times
 Waikato Times | URL: Digital devices add to parents' back-to-school blues Waikato Times But Waikato University education expert Noeline Wright told the Waikato Times more use of internet devices was as inevitable in the classroom as it already was in the wider world. "In some schools in the district it is already as if we are doing it ... |
School provides good education - ERO - The Nelson Mail
URL: School provides good education - ERO
The Nelson Mail
"Teachers are not yet adequately assessing student achievement in all areas of mathematics in relation to the National Standards." It also said the analysis and reporting of pupil achievement information could be strengthened to increase their accuracy ...
The Nelson Mail
"Teachers are not yet adequately assessing student achievement in all areas of mathematics in relation to the National Standards." It also said the analysis and reporting of pupil achievement information could be strengthened to increase their accuracy ...
Sponsor programme helping poor kids at school - Voxy
URL: Sponsor programme helping poor kids at school
Voxy
Hundreds of New Zealand children living in poverty will start their school year unable to fully engage in getting a good education. They will walk through the school gates with little or no food to sustain them during the day, inappropriate or ...
Voxy
Hundreds of New Zealand children living in poverty will start their school year unable to fully engage in getting a good education. They will walk through the school gates with little or no food to sustain them during the day, inappropriate or ...
School closed - Wairarapa Times-Age
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Wairarapa Times-Age
"Just like at any school so far out of town, there are students who really want to learn and their parents get behind that school and it naturally becomes a centre of community life. That was the case at Tiraumea." Jilly Tyler, Ministry of Education ...
Wairarapa Times-Age
"Just like at any school so far out of town, there are students who really want to learn and their parents get behind that school and it naturally becomes a centre of community life. That was the case at Tiraumea." Jilly Tyler, Ministry of Education ...
Kuranui College Launches Outdoor Education Academy
URL: Kuranui College Launches Outdoor Education Academy
Kuranui College, the South Wairarapa’s secondary school, continues to develop its innovative approach to education with a new groundbreaking programme that is aimed at getting secondary, primary and international students to enjoy the great outdoors ...
Kuranui College, the South Wairarapa’s secondary school, continues to develop its innovative approach to education with a new groundbreaking programme that is aimed at getting secondary, primary and international students to enjoy the great outdoors ...
Stress tells on headmaster - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Stress tells on headmaster Stuff.co.nz After spending months growing increasingly physically ill from constant stress, Nelson College headmaster Gary O'Shea is back behind his desk, and ready for another year of challenges. Mr O'Shea took a month-long leave of absence towards the end of ... |
The algebra project at St Hilda's Collegiate
URL: The algebra project at St Hilda's Collegiate
Anna Cox, head of mathematics at St Hilda's Collegiate in Dunedin, talks about her involvement in a Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) - The algebra project. Anna believes it is important for teachers to think about why they do things, how students learn, and how to overcome the barriers to learning. In this talk Anna describes how being involved in the TLRI had benefits for her role as a leader of professional development in her department.
Anna Cox, head of mathematics at St Hilda's Collegiate in Dunedin, talks about her involvement in a Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) - The algebra project. Anna believes it is important for teachers to think about why they do things, how students learn, and how to overcome the barriers to learning. In this talk Anna describes how being involved in the TLRI had benefits for her role as a leader of professional development in her department.
Academy brings music to low-decile schools - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: Academy brings music to low-decile schools The Dominion Post Jonny does good: Jonny Wilson is hoping his music school will reach 1000 enrolments by the end of this year, including 70 low cost places. He has just opened a second branch of Goodtime Music Academy in Petone's Jackson St. Spreading music through the ... |
Canterbury students look south - Otago Daily Times
URL: Canterbury students look south
Otago Daily Times
Last year, the university recorded a fall in student numbers for the first time in five years, partly as a result of an introduced enrolment limitation scheme and a drop of about 67 equivalent full-time students at the University of Otago's ...
Otago Daily Times
Last year, the university recorded a fall in student numbers for the first time in five years, partly as a result of an introduced enrolment limitation scheme and a drop of about 67 equivalent full-time students at the University of Otago's ...
It's a fresh start for pupils of kura - Wanganui Chronicle
URL: It's a fresh start for pupils of kura
Wanganui Chronicle
PHOTO/BEVAN CONLEY When the 16 pupils of Te Kura o te Wainui-a-Rua School at Ranana arrive for the start of the new school year, they will have a new building in which to learn. School principal and sole charge teacher Kass Kirk said she was looking ...
Wanganui Chronicle
PHOTO/BEVAN CONLEY When the 16 pupils of Te Kura o te Wainui-a-Rua School at Ranana arrive for the start of the new school year, they will have a new building in which to learn. School principal and sole charge teacher Kass Kirk said she was looking ...
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