URL: Why do we find it difficult to share power with learners?
Shifting Thinking
Why is it often difficult to give up control and share power with our learners, even when we believe this is important? Jenny Whatman says she drew her inspiration from an incident that occurred more than 30 years ago, when she was a drama teacher in an Auckland secondary school. You’ll have a chance to [...]
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Te Wahanga on culture and identity
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Shifting Thinking
Jessica Hutchings and Alex Barnes from Te Wahanga, NZCER, discuss the perspective their session on identity and culture will bring to shifting thinking about participating and contributing.
Shifting Thinking
Jessica Hutchings and Alex Barnes from Te Wahanga, NZCER, discuss the perspective their session on identity and culture will bring to shifting thinking about participating and contributing.
Charter schools a mystery for many - TVNZ
 SayCampusLife | URL: Charter schools a mystery for many TVNZ A ONE News poll has revealed more than a third of New Zealanders do not know what charter schools are. The Government is rolling out the privately-run schools in South Auckland and Christchurch next year as part of the Act Party's support agreement ... |
Charter schools backed - Auckland stuff.co.nz
URL: Charter schools backed
Auckland stuff.co.nz
The major difference is the class size and the style of teaching. Classes are kept to between 12 and 15 students with academic lessons held each morning and afternoons spent on activities and projects. Carey College principal Michael Drake agrees ...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
The major difference is the class size and the style of teaching. Classes are kept to between 12 and 15 students with academic lessons held each morning and afternoons spent on activities and projects. Carey College principal Michael Drake agrees ...
Charter schools backed - Auckland stuff.co.nz
URL: Charter schools backed
Auckland stuff.co.nz
"There's education needs in every area so I don't think the trials should be targeted at Christchurch East and South Auckland." Mr Poole says overseas studies have found that charter schools improve educational outcomes for children in poorer families ...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
"There's education needs in every area so I don't think the trials should be targeted at Christchurch East and South Auckland." Mr Poole says overseas studies have found that charter schools improve educational outcomes for children in poorer families ...
Minister's visit appreciated - Gisborne Herald
URL: Minister's visit appreciated
Gisborne Herald
Class sizes do have a major impact on student achievement and secondary teachers' current collective agreement limits class size to no more than 26 students. While it may save money to squeeze more kids into each class, we should expect learning to be ...
Gisborne Herald
Class sizes do have a major impact on student achievement and secondary teachers' current collective agreement limits class size to no more than 26 students. While it may save money to squeeze more kids into each class, we should expect learning to be ...
Time for govt to front up over teacher cuts - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Time for govt to front up over teacher cuts
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Kiwis did not vote for cutting frontline teachers from our schools, they did not vote for teachers to be taken from our students' classrooms and they did not vote for an increase in class size.” Cuts to frontline teaching staff would mean less time for ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Kiwis did not vote for cutting frontline teachers from our schools, they did not vote for teachers to be taken from our students' classrooms and they did not vote for an increase in class size.” Cuts to frontline teaching staff would mean less time for ...
It's time for performance pay for police dogs - The Dominion Post
URL: It's time for performance pay for police dogs
The Dominion Post
This would require massive testing to be even partly accurate, but the kids would have already had eight years of national standards so they'll be used to it. My simple teacher performance formula (0.2PX Y13 - sinPY9 X [10 - D], where P equals the ...
The Dominion Post
This would require massive testing to be even partly accurate, but the kids would have already had eight years of national standards so they'll be used to it. My simple teacher performance formula (0.2PX Y13 - sinPY9 X [10 - D], where P equals the ...
Performance pay talk for teachers is flawed - The Dominion Post
URL: Performance pay talk for teachers is flawed
The Dominion Post
Firstly, while teacher quality is very important, teacher quality alone cannot raise student achievement. Secondly there is no evidence that tying teacher pay to performance, based on student test results, does anything to raise student outcomes or ...
The Dominion Post
Firstly, while teacher quality is very important, teacher quality alone cannot raise student achievement. Secondly there is no evidence that tying teacher pay to performance, based on student test results, does anything to raise student outcomes or ...
Brendan Schollum: Pay for performance long overdue - New Zealand Herald
URL: Brendan Schollum: Pay for performance long overdue
New Zealand Herald
What about one teacher I know who constantly marks essays till after midnight and emails this feedback promptly to her students? As a result, many of her students are gaining excellence subject endorsements and scholarship passes.
New Zealand Herald
What about one teacher I know who constantly marks essays till after midnight and emails this feedback promptly to her students? As a result, many of her students are gaining excellence subject endorsements and scholarship passes.
Controversial way of learning - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Controversial way of learning
Stuff.co.nz
Advocates say KIPP schools have been successful in deprived, largely African-American communities and send more students to college than comparable public schools. Critics say that they have higher attrition rates and enrol fewer students with ...
Stuff.co.nz
Advocates say KIPP schools have been successful in deprived, largely African-American communities and send more students to college than comparable public schools. Critics say that they have higher attrition rates and enrol fewer students with ...
Individual Education Plan (IEP) Guidelines
URL: Individual Education Plan (IEP) Guidelines
Guidelines for anyone involved in developing or implementing individual education plans (IEPs) to support students with special education needs.
Guidelines for anyone involved in developing or implementing individual education plans (IEPs) to support students with special education needs.
Nurses and youth workers promised for low-decile schools - Radio New Zealand
 Voxy | URL: Nurses and youth workers promised for low-decile schools Radio New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says a $62 million positive behaviour school programme will be rolled out across all secondary schools. Nurses and youth workers will be placed in the low-decile schools to help identify students with mental health problems and ... |
School choice seen as illusion for disabled children - Radio New Zealand
URL: School choice seen as illusion for disabled children
Radio New Zealand
CCS Disability Action says most of the respondents to its survey found choosing a school stressful, and a third did not enrol their children in their nearest school. Radio New Zealand's education correspondent says 217 parents of children who get ...
Radio New Zealand
CCS Disability Action says most of the respondents to its survey found choosing a school stressful, and a third did not enrol their children in their nearest school. Radio New Zealand's education correspondent says 217 parents of children who get ...
Comment: SSC more lap dog than guard dog - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Comment: SSC more lap dog than guard dog Otago Daily Times This has now taken a huge step further with the head of the Treasury, Gabriel Makhlouf, going in to bat for government policy in raising such issues as the size of school classes, teacher performance, the usefulness of National Standards in primary ... |
Schools blind to bright Maori - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Schools blind to bright Maori Stuff.co.nz Gifted Maori children are being overlooked in the classroom because teachers are failing to recognise their unique genius, says a researcher. Massey University education associate professor Jill Bevan-Brown said schools tend to focus on academic ... |
Computer glitch upsets teaching at Correspondence School
URL: Computer glitch upsets teaching at Correspondence School
Teachers at the Correspondence School say thousands of their students are having their education disrupted because of problems with a new computer system.
Teachers at the Correspondence School say thousands of their students are having their education disrupted because of problems with a new computer system.
Why Should Business Care About The Wellbeing Of Children?
URL: Why Should Business Care About The Wellbeing Of Children?
Every Child Counts and BusinessNZ are announcing a discussion series about the importance of child wellbeing to the economy, to be hosted at Te Papa on 10 May and 12 July.
Every Child Counts and BusinessNZ are announcing a discussion series about the importance of child wellbeing to the economy, to be hosted at Te Papa on 10 May and 12 July.
Wagging school the daily deal for 29000 - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Wagging school the daily deal for 29000
Stuff.co.nz
On any given day 29000 students skip school – the equivalent of Blenheim's entire population missing from class. And serial truants, who may be bunking school to smoke drugs, babysit younger siblings or help with household chores, are already on the ...
Stuff.co.nz
On any given day 29000 students skip school – the equivalent of Blenheim's entire population missing from class. And serial truants, who may be bunking school to smoke drugs, babysit younger siblings or help with household chores, are already on the ...
NCEA results for Northland schools | Northland News | Local News in Northland - Northern Advocate
URL: NCEA results for Northland schools | Northland News | Local News in Northland
Northern Advocate
NCEA results for all New Zealand schools have been released but a leading expert has warned parents to consider a number of factors before drawing a conclusion from the results. The results were published on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority ...
Northern Advocate
NCEA results for all New Zealand schools have been released but a leading expert has warned parents to consider a number of factors before drawing a conclusion from the results. The results were published on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority ...
One piece of the puzzle - Manawatu Standard
URL: One piece of the puzzle
Manawatu Standard
While NCEA pass rates are obliviously an important factor in determining a school's performance, they should be viewed within a broader context and treated with some caution. Academic achievement should never be undervalued, and the schools that have ...
Manawatu Standard
While NCEA pass rates are obliviously an important factor in determining a school's performance, they should be viewed within a broader context and treated with some caution. Academic achievement should never be undervalued, and the schools that have ...
Hawke's Bay schools eclipse target for NCEA - Hawke's Bay Today
URL: Hawke's Bay schools eclipse target for NCEA
Hawke's Bay Today
However, Mrs Nixon said last year's Year 11 students faced challenges with changes to Level 1 assessments that were not backed up with enough NZQA-supplied resources to guide changes. NZQA "re-aligned" assessments so course work was standardised across ...
Hawke's Bay Today
However, Mrs Nixon said last year's Year 11 students faced challenges with changes to Level 1 assessments that were not backed up with enough NZQA-supplied resources to guide changes. NZQA "re-aligned" assessments so course work was standardised across ...
NCEA results better but can improve - Stuff.co.nz
URL: NCEA results better but can improve
Stuff.co.nz
Nelson College headmaster Gary O'Shea said results in level 1 and 2 were well above the previous year, but the school had taken a "thump" in level 3. He said 2010 had seen the school's strongest year in a decade in terms of NCEA Level 3 results, ...
Stuff.co.nz
Nelson College headmaster Gary O'Shea said results in level 1 and 2 were well above the previous year, but the school had taken a "thump" in level 3. He said 2010 had seen the school's strongest year in a decade in terms of NCEA Level 3 results, ...
NCEA: Canterbury Pupils Excel Despite Earthquakes | Stuff.co.nz
URL: NCEA: Canterbury Pupils Excel Despite Earthquakes | Stuff.co.nz
However, statistics released by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority show the displaced schools accomplished even better National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) results last year than they did in 2010. ... Education student at Canterbury) going to do a study of what worked so well - the rest of us around the country look on in awe at the results of hard and focused work - but I think you have some learning and assessment lessons for all of us.
However, statistics released by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority show the displaced schools accomplished even better National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) results last year than they did in 2010. ... Education student at Canterbury) going to do a study of what worked so well - the rest of us around the country look on in awe at the results of hard and focused work - but I think you have some learning and assessment lessons for all of us.
Two schools top NCEA average - The Daily Post
URL: Two schools top NCEA average
The Daily Post
John Paul College and Reporoa College are the only schools in the Rotorua area to have beaten the national average for NCEA achievement at every year Level. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement 2011 statistics were recently released by ...
The Daily Post
John Paul College and Reporoa College are the only schools in the Rotorua area to have beaten the national average for NCEA achievement at every year Level. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement 2011 statistics were recently released by ...
CPIT expects to regain domestic students - Stuff.co.nz
URL: CPIT expects to regain domestic students
Stuff.co.nz
A Christchurch tertiary institution expects its domestic-student numbers to fully recover this year from the earthquakes. The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) expects to have 5157 fulltime-equivalent students by the end of the ...
Stuff.co.nz
A Christchurch tertiary institution expects its domestic-student numbers to fully recover this year from the earthquakes. The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) expects to have 5157 fulltime-equivalent students by the end of the ...
Scores of false fire alarms linked to failing school infrastructure - New Zealand Herald
URL: Scores of false fire alarms linked to failing school infrastructure
New Zealand Herald
King's College, which had 24 false callouts in the past 12 months, was the worst offender. It was followed by Te Puke High School and Marlborough Boys College with 16 each. The University of Auckland had 71 false alarms across its Tamaki, ...
New Zealand Herald
King's College, which had 24 false callouts in the past 12 months, was the worst offender. It was followed by Te Puke High School and Marlborough Boys College with 16 each. The University of Auckland had 71 false alarms across its Tamaki, ...
Schools forbid teachers reporting violence - TVNZ
URL: Schools forbid teachers reporting violence
TVNZ
In one case a teacher was sitting in their classroom eating lunch when a student walked in and punched them in the face. The school told the teacher not to go to police because it would be dealt with internally. Nothing happened.
TVNZ
In one case a teacher was sitting in their classroom eating lunch when a student walked in and punched them in the face. The school told the teacher not to go to police because it would be dealt with internally. Nothing happened.
Unstitching the cosy details - New Zealand Herald
URL: Unstitching the cosy details
New Zealand Herald
School uniform and stationery monopolies are lining the pockets of selected retailers at the expense of parents. Now, the Government must act. Education minister Hekia Parata claims it's not her place to tell school boards what to do but that is a ...
New Zealand Herald
School uniform and stationery monopolies are lining the pockets of selected retailers at the expense of parents. Now, the Government must act. Education minister Hekia Parata claims it's not her place to tell school boards what to do but that is a ...
Herald On Sunday Editorial: School deals leave a sour taste - New Zealand Herald
URL: Herald On Sunday Editorial: School deals leave a sour taste
New Zealand Herald
If nothing else, our stories this week and last about schools cashing in on uniform sales should get us all thinking about the wisdom of requiring our children to dress in a special way just so they can be educated. Our reports have revealed that ...
New Zealand Herald
If nothing else, our stories this week and last about schools cashing in on uniform sales should get us all thinking about the wisdom of requiring our children to dress in a special way just so they can be educated. Our reports have revealed that ...
Principal says it's hard to walk away - Auckland stuff.co.nz
 Auckland stuff.co.nz | URL: Principal says it's hard to walk away Auckland stuff.co.nz One of the biggest changes during his time at the school was the 1989 education reforms known as Tomorrow's Schools. It meant schools were able to manage themselves and boards were appointed. "We were able to make some great changes ourselves. |
Principal of troubled school on paid leave - New Zealand Herald
URL: Principal of troubled school on paid leave
New Zealand Herald
By John Lewis of the Otago Daily Times Rotary Park School principal Carmel Casey has been at the centre of allegations of incompetent teaching practices and staff bullying. She's now on paid leave. Photo / Gerard O'Brien Rotary Park School principal ...
New Zealand Herald
By John Lewis of the Otago Daily Times Rotary Park School principal Carmel Casey has been at the centre of allegations of incompetent teaching practices and staff bullying. She's now on paid leave. Photo / Gerard O'Brien Rotary Park School principal ...
Ki-o-Rahi's king - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Ki-o-Rahi's king Stuff.co.nz More than 170 primary school children learnt how to play the game last week and competed in the inaugural Marlborough Ki-o-Rahi schools tournament at the Redwoodtown School. Tournament co-ordinator Margy Crosby said the game had a great history and it ... |
School has designs on software - The Southland Times
URL: School has designs on software
The Southland Times
New Plymouth engineering design company ITL is partially financing and implementing AutoCAD design software in secondary schools. Waitara High School received its package during the week, thanks to the brains behind the initiative, Garnett Henderson, ...
The Southland Times
New Plymouth engineering design company ITL is partially financing and implementing AutoCAD design software in secondary schools. Waitara High School received its package during the week, thanks to the brains behind the initiative, Garnett Henderson, ...
Energy campaign saves university $350000 - Otago Daily Times
URL: Energy campaign saves university $350000
Otago Daily Times
By Vaughan Elder on Fri, 6 Apr 2012 An energy-saving campaign at the University of Otago has seen it save $350000 (excluding GST) on forecast energy spending last year. Energy co-ordinator Mark Mason said the "energy challenge", which started in June ...
Otago Daily Times
By Vaughan Elder on Fri, 6 Apr 2012 An energy-saving campaign at the University of Otago has seen it save $350000 (excluding GST) on forecast energy spending last year. Energy co-ordinator Mark Mason said the "energy challenge", which started in June ...
School investigation into 'sexting' - Stuff.co.nz
URL: School investigation into 'sexting'
Stuff.co.nz
Golden Bay High School is boosting its internet safety policies after pupils distributed sexualised images of a fellow student. The "sexting" incident resulted in police involvement and the temporary suspension of the students who forwarded the content ...
Stuff.co.nz
Golden Bay High School is boosting its internet safety policies after pupils distributed sexualised images of a fellow student. The "sexting" incident resulted in police involvement and the temporary suspension of the students who forwarded the content ...
High school bans energy drinks - New Zealand Herald
URL: High school bans energy drinks
New Zealand Herald
Another school in the town, John Paul II High, has not banned the drinks, but says it does not sell them at the canteen or promote their consumption. A number of primary schools in the area already ban energy drinks. Community and Public Health ...
New Zealand Herald
Another school in the town, John Paul II High, has not banned the drinks, but says it does not sell them at the canteen or promote their consumption. A number of primary schools in the area already ban energy drinks. Community and Public Health ...
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