URL: Faculty of Education - The University of Waikato Symposium ...
Rose Hipkins (New Zealand Council for Educational Research);. Dawn Penney (University of Waikato); and. Bronwen Cowie (University of Waikato). The symposium will close with the launch of Peter Hay and Dawn Penney's ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Light on refugee research
URL: Light on refugee research
Researcher Dr John Benseman interviewed 36 learners from 10 countries attending English Language Partners’ ESOL-Literacy programme. The programme’s teachers and bilingual assistants also participated....
Imagine you’ve never held a pen. Now couple this with learning to read and write in what is your new language. Refugees with little or no literacy in their own language face enormous challenges in learning English.
Researcher Dr John Benseman interviewed 36 learners from 10 countries attending English Language Partners’ ESOL-Literacy programme. The programme’s teachers and bilingual assistants also participated....
Imagine you’ve never held a pen. Now couple this with learning to read and write in what is your new language. Refugees with little or no literacy in their own language face enormous challenges in learning English.
Labour defends change of heart on National Standards - Newstalk ZB
URL: Labour defends change of heart on National Standards
Newstalk ZB
"In many schools they are already well entrenched features, and staff don't want to change them again. So we've said 'look, it's over to the board', teachers, and most importantly parents have the say in whether National Standards continues in that ...
Newstalk ZB
"In many schools they are already well entrenched features, and staff don't want to change them again. So we've said 'look, it's over to the board', teachers, and most importantly parents have the say in whether National Standards continues in that ...
Shearer explains Labour's new education policy - 3News NZ
 3News NZ | URL: Shearer explains Labour's new education policy 3News NZ @Paul National Standards is a bad idea and even John Key refers to their rating system as eirie faerie lol so the point of that excercise was a waste of time now wasnt it?. National traditionally make the school systems international rating fall ... |
Shane Taurima Interviews David Shearer - Voxy
URL: Shane Taurima Interviews David Shearer
Voxy
Shearer says national standards "inferior" and no good for children, but Labour won't abolish them and "turn the whole applecart upside down". Focus in schools should be on the under-achieving tail: "National standards is somewhat of a side issue." ...
Voxy
Shearer says national standards "inferior" and no good for children, but Labour won't abolish them and "turn the whole applecart upside down". Focus in schools should be on the under-achieving tail: "National standards is somewhat of a side issue." ...
Keep focused on the student - Marlborough Express
URL: Keep focused on the student
Marlborough Express
Marlborough Principals Association president and Spring Creek School principal Andrew Macfarlane said the publication of national standards results for small schools breached the privacy of pupils as year level results could easily identify individuals.
Marlborough Express
Marlborough Principals Association president and Spring Creek School principal Andrew Macfarlane said the publication of national standards results for small schools breached the privacy of pupils as year level results could easily identify individuals.
A Public Meeting on Charter Schools
URL: A Public Meeting on Charter Schools
Partnership Schools/Kura Hourua – known internationally as charter schools – are one of the Government’s initiatives aimed at addressing student underachievement. As a relatively late adopter of the concept, New Zealand has the advantage of being ...
Partnership Schools/Kura Hourua – known internationally as charter schools – are one of the Government’s initiatives aimed at addressing student underachievement. As a relatively late adopter of the concept, New Zealand has the advantage of being ...
Primary school leaders must work hard to inspire their students - The Guardian (blog)
 The Guardian (blog) | URL: Primary school leaders must work hard to inspire their students The Guardian (blog) My leadership journey has seen me teaching tamariki (Maori children) in New Zealand and being questioned in a wharenui (meeting house) on why a white man is talking about their children's education to overcoming the challenge of gaining my NPQH ... |
Christchurch schools lodge Waitangi Tribunal complaints - TVNZ
URL: Christchurch schools lodge Waitangi Tribunal complaints
TVNZ
''Speculation is that the intention is to divide the schools in order to create a student intake for the new charter school that is targeting Maori,'' he said. Martindale ... He said he understood Ngai Tahu was supportive of a charter school aimed at ...
Emotions surface in fight to save school - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Emotions surface in fight to save school Stuff.co.nz The school, off Marshland Rd, was one of 13 slated for closure under proposals announced by the Education Ministry last Thursday. About 150 parents, teachers ... I'll tell you what, they've got something that bigger schools haven't got." Parent and ... |
Closure of schools 'will kill peninsula' - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Closure of schools 'will kill peninsula' Stuff.co.nz Three rural primary schools, at Le Bons Bay, Duvauchelle and Okains Bay, look set to close under the Education Ministry's renewal plan. Pupils will be absorbed into Akaroa Area School or housed in satellite classrooms at current school sites. Okains ... |
Principals, students and parents up in arms - Stuff
URL: Principals, students and parents up in arms - Stuff
Thirteen schools are marked to close, 18 may merge into nine, seven will be relocated to another site and five may close and become part of a single campus in Aranui for year 1-13 pupils. The Government plans to invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to restore the Christchurch area's ... Fellow student Adam Green was worried there wouldn't be space for the extra students. "We hardly have enough room for ourselves," he said. However, deputy head boy Stephen ...
Thirteen schools are marked to close, 18 may merge into nine, seven will be relocated to another site and five may close and become part of a single campus in Aranui for year 1-13 pupils. The Government plans to invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to restore the Christchurch area's ... Fellow student Adam Green was worried there wouldn't be space for the extra students. "We hardly have enough room for ourselves," he said. However, deputy head boy Stephen ...
Maori school merger will affect language growth
URL: Maori school merger will affect language growth
A proposal to merge two Maori language schools in Christchurch has led to complaints being lodged with the Waitangi Tribunal.
A proposal to merge two Maori language schools in Christchurch has led to complaints being lodged with the Waitangi Tribunal.
Maori schools fight merger - New Zealand Herald
 3News NZ | URL: Maori schools fight merger New Zealand Herald The Education Ministry announced a proposal to close 13 Canterbury schools and merge another 18 - including the city's te Kura Kaupapa Maori immersion schools. The chairman of the board of Te Whanau Tahi school in Spreydon, Huata Martindale said ... |
Schools mull legal action over payroll - New Zealand Herald
URL: Schools mull legal action over payroll
New Zealand Herald
This month, Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone ordered the Novopay Governance Board to meet "as a matter of urgency", following complaints from school boards of trustees, principals and school administrators. The board has identified the key ..
New Zealand Herald
This month, Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone ordered the Novopay Governance Board to meet "as a matter of urgency", following complaints from school boards of trustees, principals and school administrators. The board has identified the key ..
Scheme to bring students and employers together
URL: Scheme to bring students and employers together
South Auckland employers are to be linked up with schools to provide work experience and mentoring for students who need help to get jobs.Two local boards in Otara-Papatoetoe and Mangere-Otahuhu have employed two fulltime workers...
South Auckland employers are to be linked up with schools to provide work experience and mentoring for students who need help to get jobs.Two local boards in Otara-Papatoetoe and Mangere-Otahuhu have employed two fulltime workers...
Teachers 'getting too close to students' | Stuff.co.nz
URL: Teachers 'getting too close to students' | Stuff.co.nz
Teachers are getting too friendly with their students and the blame is being levelled at teacher training institutions.
Teachers are getting too friendly with their students and the blame is being levelled at teacher training institutions.
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