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News of April 2012
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
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.
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-Portfolios
16/4/2012
Find out from these school stories how e-portfolios are helping students to take increasing responsibility for their own learning. Technology enables the use of a range of media - video, sound, and images, as well as text to show both the learning process and final products.
To find out more you can also join the e-portfolio discussion in the VLN.
Resources for the revised e-asTTle writing tool now available
13/4/2012
The following resources are now on the e-asTTle website to support the implementation of the revised e-asTTle writing tool, available from the beginning of Term 2, 2012.
More online support will be made available in the near future, including updates to the Frequently Asked Questions. If you have a question you would like added to the website, please email us here.