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Mātauranga Māori
17/1/2012
Mātauranga Māori is a new TKI community where you can find resources and information relevant to teaching and learning in Māori-medium. This replaces the old Māori Education community on TKI and brings with it a new look and feel.
Find out about collections of online and offline resources and support material for each learning area; a resource exchange where teachers can share ideas and teaching material and keep up to date with news; regional and national events; activities, and professional learning opportunities. You can also subscribe to receive a monthly newsletter via email about the world of Māori education.
Road map: Road safety resources for school communities
13/1/2012
NZTA's directory of free road safety resources directs schools and communities to road safety education resources relevant to each stage of a child’s development.
The NZTA promotes a whole school approach that includes school community partnerships, the school ethos and organisation, and the school curriculum.
Includes resources for 0-5 years, 5-8 years, 12-16 years, and 16-20 years
e-Learning professional development for schools
12/1/2012
From 2012, selection of schools for e-learning-related professional learning and development, funded by the Ministry of Education, will be being managed by regional Ministry offices.
Regional offices will work collaboratively with professional learning providers to identify priority groups.
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Spiderscribe
12/1/2012
Spiderscribe is a free online mind mapping tool. Users can sign up for their free Spiderscribe account and start creating very quickly. The mind-mapping software allows users to add a variety of different stencils. Support material is available.
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How can you engage your community?
10/1/2012
Take a look at these tools, ideas, stories, and resources to support schools in their community engagement initiatives. They include self review tools, materials for community workshops on literacy, numeracy, curriculum design and review, and supporting case studies, professional readings, and research.
English senior secondary curriculum guide
9/1/2012
As teachers plan for the year ahead, these guidelines released December 2011 can help freshen curriculum related thinking in regard to senior secondary programmes. Read what students think are good reasons for studying English in the rationale.
ESOL Online Teaching and learning sequences
20/12/2011
ESOL Online has three new teaching and learning sequences that can be used with the DVD ‘Making Language and Learning Work 3’, available from Down the Back of the Chair – Item number 113358.
See Siapo – Printmaking, Making Lanterns, and Family Treasures.
NCEA Matrices for 2012
16/12/2011
The current registered NCEA Levels 1, 2 and 3 achievement standards can be accessed on the NZQA website. As a result of the review of the Level 1 and 2 achievement standards to align them with The New Zealand Curriculum (2007), the subject matrices have been amended.
The matrices for 2012 for all subjects are now available.
New Wellbeing website launched
15/12/2011
A primary concern of parents and educators is children and young people’s well-being - helping them cope well with the inevitable ups and downs of life. Well-being, or good mental health can be seen as the ability to face challenges confidently, enjoy life, have positive emotions (happy, valued), deal with problems optimistically, and make the most of change. This requires both well-being and resilience.
Rudolph and relatives have built-in air con
15/12/2011
Recently published research from Norway has unravelled the complexity of how Arctic reindeer keep themselves cool when exercising – a necessity when you wear a thick shaggy coat and pull a giant sleigh with a fat man and toys for all the world’s children.
This news article reports on scientists' experiments with reindeer. Your students may like to the use the Ethics thinking tool to investigate the ethics of using animals in scientific experiments.