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Arts Online Digistories
7/10/2011
A collection of digital stories that shares innovative, curriculum-based Artists in Education projects in New Zealand primary, intermediate, and secondary schools and their communities.
Leading artists from a wide range of arts disciplines work alongside teachers and students, parents and wider community, to enrich arts learning through a focus on local contexts.
The stories show the process of creating meaningful arts works, the unique opportunities to learn from each other, and the positive impact on learning not only in the arts disciplines, but across many aspects of learning and school community life.
Statistics NZ: Interactive Boundary Maps
7/10/2011
A free online resource developed for geography teachers by Statistics NZ includes interactive tools to explore population patterns, processes, and statistics. It also includes suggested activities to extend conceptual understandings.
Further support for secondary teachers
5/10/2011
Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced four further support days for secondary school teachers, as they implement the new curriculum-aligned achievement standards for NCEA levels one, two, and three over the next two years.
Two teacher-only professional development days will be provided to schools in 2012, with two further teacher-only days available in 2013. These are in addition to the two professional support days which have already been announced for 2011.
Diwali 2011
4/10/2011
Diwali celebrations are taking place around the country this month.
The following resources are examples of the material on TKI that focuses on this celebration:
Mix & Mash competition winners
4/10/2011
Take a look at the winning entries in the 2011 Mix & Mash competition. These include winners from both primary and secondary schools.
Mix & Mash focuses on New Zealand images, data, words, video and music, and school students can compete for prizes by remixing Kiwi digital content into new works. The Free to Remix educator's guide provides advice on how to get started with mixing and mashing, including support finding openly licensed New Zealand content and data.
Enabling e-Learning live
3/10/2011
Enabling e-Learning is the Ministry of Education’s online ‘hub’ for ICT-related education resources and programmes in New Zealand, bringing together everything that school leaders and teachers need to improve their e-learning practice.
Enabling e-Learning will continually evolve and change in response to feedback from New Zealand schools and communities. We want to hear from you what you’re doing in the e-Learning space, so please visit us regularly and share what works and what doesn’t, and all your news and views.
You can connect with Enabling e-Learning in the following ways:
- Explore this dedicated area on TKI
- Participate in communities of interest on the Virtual Learning Network
- Follow us on Twitter
- Post your comments on our Facebook page
TeachNZ Career Changer Scholarships
3/10/2011
Mēnā kei te kōrero Māori koe, ā, kei te pīrangi koe ki te huri i tō umanga kia mahi hei kaiwhakaako, tēnā pea ko te karahipi TeachNZ Career Changer ko tāu e tatari ai. Ko ēnei karahipi mā ngā tangata kua whai wheako mahi i ngā tau kua hipa atu nei, kua mārama anō hoki ki te hira waiwai o te mātauranga, me ērā he matareka ki a rātou te mahi i te taha o ngā rangatahi.
Kids Voting: Making it real
27/9/2011
Kids Voting is designed to raise awareness among young people about New Zealand's electoral processes.
With Kids Voting students from all over New Zealand will be able to take part in the 2011 general election and referendum on the voting system.
Students vote for real candidates, on a real ballot paper, and compare the results of their classroom's election with the results of the real election. Kids Voting is designed to work with the Year Nine social studies curriculum, and all materials are free.
To find out how to take part see information for teachers.
Citizenship education
27/9/2011
This website from the Department of Internal Affairs is for teachers and students to explore New Zealand citizenship: what it is, how people become citizens, what citizenship means to them, and much more.
Aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum, the social sciences resource is designed for levels 2 and 5 but can be adapted for use at other levels.
Includes unit plans, social inquiry model and cross curricular activities for students.
Festival for the Future
23/9/2011
When? - November 4–6th 2011
Where? - NZ Film Archive (main venue) & NZ Film School (sister venue), Wellington.
Festival for the Future, a new national youth event, is bringing together emerging young creatives, entrepreneurs, and community innovators.
It aims to inspire NZ's next generation of young people with the knowledge, networks, skills and support to lead innovative projects that impact our communities in positive ways. Includes guest speakers, workshops, film screenings, and more.
Scholarships are available for young people aged 13 - 25 to attend the Festival. Applications for these close September 30th, 2011.