WORLD GIFTED 2013: Mainstreaming effective gifted education ...
..New Zealand educators are no strangers to the concept of industrial and post-industrial educational approaches and the need for a major paradigm shift in education. A recent report produced by Bolstad, Gilbert, McDowall, Bull, Boyd & Hipkins (NZCER) proposes that at least six emerging themes in education need to come together if we are to create a "coherent direction for designing a future-focused education system"...
Monday, July 30, 2012
Schools 'must release data' | Stuff.co.nz
URL: Schools 'must release data' | Stuff.co.nz
Education minister Hekia Parata has told Manawatu principals they must release their national standards data if asked for it.
Education minister Hekia Parata has told Manawatu principals they must release their national standards data if asked for it.
Auckland principals oppose league tables for schools - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Auckland principals oppose league tables for schools
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Press Release – Auckland Primary Principals' Association Auckland Primary Principals' Association members are continuing to oppose the use of league tables to rank schools according to data generated by the National Standards. The Association has ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Press Release – Auckland Primary Principals' Association Auckland Primary Principals' Association members are continuing to oppose the use of league tables to rank schools according to data generated by the National Standards. The Association has ...
Teachers' Council change wanted - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Teachers' Council change wanted Otago Daily Times "When did you ever hear the teachers' council leading the profession with respect to the changes to educational professional standards such as the benefits, or otherwise, of league tables and National Standards?" He said the General Teaching Council ... |
Review of the New Zealand Teachers Council
URL: Review of the New Zealand Teachers Council
Background to the Review of the New Zealand Teachers Council, Terms of Reference, meet the Review Committee
Background to the Review of the New Zealand Teachers Council, Terms of Reference, meet the Review Committee
Report supports qualified teachers in early childhood educat - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Report supports qualified teachers in early childhood educat
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dr Meade says teachers in '100 percent centres' were more intentional about children's learning, evidenced through planning, talking with parents and exchanging information about child learning and development. They were better at explaining the ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dr Meade says teachers in '100 percent centres' were more intentional about children's learning, evidenced through planning, talking with parents and exchanging information about child learning and development. They were better at explaining the ...
Monitoring Teacher Supply 2012
URL: Monitoring Teacher Supply 2012
The 2012 Monitoring Teacher Supply report provides the Ministry with a snapshot of the number of entitlement staffing vacancies and re-advertised vacancies in schools at the start of Term 1, how these vacancies are being covered and, in the case of secondary schools, in what subject areas pressure points are occurring.
The 2012 Monitoring Teacher Supply report provides the Ministry with a snapshot of the number of entitlement staffing vacancies and re-advertised vacancies in schools at the start of Term 1, how these vacancies are being covered and, in the case of secondary schools, in what subject areas pressure points are occurring.
Participating and contributing? The role of school and community in supporting civic and citizenship education
URL: Participating and contributing? The role of school and community in supporting civic and citizenship education
This report is the fourth in a series based on the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), which was undertaken in New Zealand in 2008. It focuses on the role of the school and the community in civic and citizenship education.
This report is the fourth in a series based on the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), which was undertaken in New Zealand in 2008. It focuses on the role of the school and the community in civic and citizenship education.
Destiny interested in charter school - New Zealand Herald
URL: Destiny interested in charter school
New Zealand Herald
Other groups that have expressed an interest include a United States-based profit-making school chain, the New Zealand chapter of the Maharishi Foundation, which practises transcendental meditation, trustees of the former Maori schools St Stephen's and ...
New Zealand Herald
Other groups that have expressed an interest include a United States-based profit-making school chain, the New Zealand chapter of the Maharishi Foundation, which practises transcendental meditation, trustees of the former Maori schools St Stephen's and ...
Pupils learn to cherish Maori language | Stuff.co.nz
URL: Pupils learn to cherish Maori language | Stuff.co.nz
Hundreds of pupils from Invercargill to Milton gathered yesterday at the Mataura and Districts Marae for a day of teaching and sharing to mark Maori Language Week.
Hundreds of pupils from Invercargill to Milton gathered yesterday at the Mataura and Districts Marae for a day of teaching and sharing to mark Maori Language Week.
Pupils learn to cherish Maori language | Stuff.co.nz
URL: Pupils learn to cherish Maori language | Stuff.co.nz
Hundreds of pupils from Invercargill to Milton gathered yesterday at the Mataura and Districts Marae for a day of teaching and sharing to mark Maori Language Week.
Hundreds of pupils from Invercargill to Milton gathered yesterday at the Mataura and Districts Marae for a day of teaching and sharing to mark Maori Language Week.
Introducing numeracy standards at Hamilton Boys High School
URL: Introducing numeracy standards at Hamilton Boys High School
Philippe Basel and a number of students reflect on the numeracy standards trial conducted at Hamilton Boys’ High School and explain how this approach differs from a mainstream maths class.
Philippe Basel and a number of students reflect on the numeracy standards trial conducted at Hamilton Boys’ High School and explain how this approach differs from a mainstream maths class.
Reversing the decline in speakers of te reo Māori - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Reversing the decline in speakers of te reo Māori
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dr Higgins is working closely with the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust and Te Ataarangi, an initiative to encourage people to speak Māori in homes and communities, to carry out her research. Information is being gathered through questionnaires in both ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dr Higgins is working closely with the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust and Te Ataarangi, an initiative to encourage people to speak Māori in homes and communities, to carry out her research. Information is being gathered through questionnaires in both ...
Education trust expands its focus - Auckland stuff.co.nz
URL: Education trust expands its focus
Auckland stuff.co.nz
That includes analysing educational trends in Auckland and bringing relevant groups together. COMET's Snapshots of Education in Auckland series highlights facts about areas like Pasifika education. And its Learning Auckland Accord helps connect ...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
That includes analysing educational trends in Auckland and bringing relevant groups together. COMET's Snapshots of Education in Auckland series highlights facts about areas like Pasifika education. And its Learning Auckland Accord helps connect ...
Digital devices pupils' new pencil cases | Stuff.co.nz
URL: Digital devices pupils' new pencil cases | Stuff.co.nz
Starting next year Central Southland College students will be able to "BYO" - devices, that is. ... Digital devices pupils' new pencil cases. 'We need to tap into their worlds'. KIMBERLEY CRAYTON-BROWN. Last updated 05:00 ...
Starting next year Central Southland College students will be able to "BYO" - devices, that is. ... Digital devices pupils' new pencil cases. 'We need to tap into their worlds'. KIMBERLEY CRAYTON-BROWN. Last updated 05:00 ...
footsteps™ certified to train own staff in child protection - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: footsteps™ certified to train own staff in child protection
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Press Release – Footsteps. Early childhood education organisation, footsteps™, is the first organisation in New Zealand to gain a certification by leading child protection training organisation, Child Matters, qualifying it to train its own staff in ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Press Release – Footsteps. Early childhood education organisation, footsteps™, is the first organisation in New Zealand to gain a certification by leading child protection training organisation, Child Matters, qualifying it to train its own staff in ...
Polyfest exhibition proves popular - Southland Times
 Southland Times | URL: Polyfest exhibition proves popular Southland Times Entries came from 11 schools and education centres, from Winton Kindergarten to Room 3 at St Teresa's School in Bluff, with judging done by master carver and patron of the Murihiku Maori and Pasifika Cultural Trust Johnny Penisula, museum curator and ... |
Teachers come to aid of hungry children - TVNZ
URL: Teachers come to aid of hungry children
TVNZ
School staff in the Waikato are forking out their own food and money so students don't go hungry, according to new research into school food programmes in the region. One low decile school reported half of its children were arriving hungry each week ...
TVNZ
School staff in the Waikato are forking out their own food and money so students don't go hungry, according to new research into school food programmes in the region. One low decile school reported half of its children were arriving hungry each week ...
Kakanui School gets big tick from ERO - Timaru Herald
URL: Kakanui School gets big tick from ERO
Timaru Herald
The curriculum set clear directions for student learning and teachers received effective support from the board of trustees for continuing professional development and personal wellbeing, the report said. "The school is well placed to sustain and ...
Timaru Herald
The curriculum set clear directions for student learning and teachers received effective support from the board of trustees for continuing professional development and personal wellbeing, the report said. "The school is well placed to sustain and ...
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