Kia ora, talofa, and welcome to the alternative education community. This
site provides information and support to schools, providers, parents/caregivers,
and students working in alternative education. We value your feedback, ideas,
and contributions to this news page. Contact us at alterned@tki.org.nz
National Alternative Education Conference
Theme: Working Smarter not Harder
20–23 September 2007
Christchurch
More information to come
Worth a Look
"Safety and EOTC"
This new publication is a great resource for alternative education providers.
It contains helpful advice and usable formats for planning, risk management
and policy formulation. All alternative education providers are encouraged to
use this as a basis for planning their outdoor programmes. Every school in New
Zealand has been issued a copy, and it can also be downloaded from the Te Kete
Ipurangi website at http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/eotc/
URGE -
Whakamanawa
URGE is an innovative youth information service created to assist young people
to 'work it out' by providing youth-friendly information to improve their health
and well-being. http://www.urge.co.nz
Asdan
Find out about the activity-based curriculum enrichment programmes offered by
the non-profit making organisation ASDAN Educational. There are programmes that
support mainstream and the de-motivated or disaffected student, and ones that
have been specifically designed to cater for students with more profound and
multiple learning needs. Contact Carolyn Baines on 06 8777403 email: cbaines@xtra.co.nz
ACE Consumer Resource
Check out this online educational resource, formerly Consumer Kids, designed by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs for levels 3 and 4 social studies. ACE Consumer is a tool for teachers to teach, and students to learn, how to be ‘active’, ‘critical’ and ‘enquiring’ consumers in the classroom and onwards into real life. Inside are introductions and instructions, classroom activities to download and print, and an online student section for students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom. http://www.consumeraffairs.govt.nz/education/
TKI Kete
Have you ever used "Favourites" or "Bookmarks" to store your
favourite websites so you can find them again later? TKI Kete on Te Kete Ipurangi
functions in the same way only better! And it's absolutely free! Using the TKI
kete function, you can save different types of resources, including websites,
in your own space on TKI. This way you can access your favourites from any computer
with Internet access. To find out more, click on the link above.
