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Science in The New Zealand Curriculum:Years 5 to 8 (May 2012)
3/5/2012
In 2011, ERO evaluated the quality of science teaching and learning, its place within the curriculum and its relationship to literacy and numeracy teaching, focusing on years 5 to 8 in 100 schools. This report documents the findings of the evaluation.
Leading from the middle: educational leadership for middle and senior leaders
2/5/2012
This leadership resource describes the knowledge, skills, and qualities that are at the heart of every level of effective school leadership. It sets out the expectations we have of leadership, and it aims to strengthen and support that leadership. It also aims to encourage teachers to consider taking on middle and senior leadership roles.
Leading from the Middle is to be used in conjunction with Kiwi Leadership for Principals and Tū Rangatira: Māori Medium Educational Leadership (English version, Māori version). These present models for educational leadership unique to Aotearoa New Zealand.
Living Heritage - Whanaungatanga
1/5/2012
Tauriko School's year 5 and 6 students have used their school’s inquiry process to investigate the concept of whanaungatanga, and how the past has influenced the present Tauriko community.
NZ Curriculum Update 20: Raising student achievement through school planning
27/4/2012
This Update highlights the importance of planning within ongoing self-review aimed at improving student outcomes. It is intended to support schools and kura as they think about the next steps in their self-review cycle and to help them establish shared understandings about planning processes, expected outcomes, and achievement for priority groups.
Linking Minds Scholarship
26/4/2012
The Linking Minds Scholarship is a prestigious international award for young teachers who identify themselves as emerging leaders.
The scholarship is sponsored by the British Council, the Ministry of Education, the New Zealand Teachers Council and the NZ-UK Link Foundation, and aims to recognise and promote effective teaching by providing international experience for teachers early in their careers.
This year there are 4 scholarships available in total for teachers or principals working in early childhood, primary, or secondary education.
Find out more about the scholarship and how to apply here
Applications should be postmarked no later than 25 May 2012.
Learning spaces
24/4/2012
Find out what schools are doing to create new learning spaces. Watch the latest video clips of school stories, join the discussion, and find out more from the research and readings.
Embedded Support in Audio
23/4/2012
Learning Media is piloting the use of embedded support in the audio versions of non-fiction texts from the School Journal, Junior Journal, and School Journal Story Library (years 5-6) and School Journal Story Library (years 7-8).
Embedded support is designed to assist students to use visual features, such as photographs and diagrams, to help them make meaning of the text.
The aim of including embedded support in audio is to help students to use the strategies highlighted in the audio file independently when they read other non-fiction texts.
Two embedded support items - School Journal and Junior Journal are currently online.
Teachers are asked to provide feedback after they have used the audio track(s).
ANZAC Day resources
18/4/2012
Here are some of the collections of material relevant to ANZAC day that can be found from TKI, Digistore, and a number of external sources:
Kia Mau - 28th (Māori) Battalion multimedia resources and social studies units
wickED Topic ANZAC Day
wickED Topic War and Peace
Teacher support material for School Journal stories and articles
Digistore film clips, audio clips, images, and more
English Online unit plans Anzacs and Us and Conflict and War
Arts Online Teacher resource exchange Anzac Day Cross arts ideas and Anzac Day music
NZ On Screen ANZAC Day collection
New Zealand History online Social Studies activities and The red poppy
National Library ANZAC topic collection
Image sourced from KeteScape
Getting the EOTC message across
17/4/2012
A professional development programme to equip educators to manage EOTC effectively using the resources available is currently being rolled out across the country.
Find out about the EOTC workshops coming to your area soon...
e-asTTle outage on Wednesday April 18th
17/4/2012
e-asTTle will be unavailable from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Wednesday 18th April 2012. This scheduled outage is to upgrade functionality.