TKI - On TKI: Knowledge Breakfast

What is The Knowledge Breakfast?

The Knowledge Breakfast is a new television series that features New Zealand education and innovation in action.

Screening on TV One on Saturday mornings, each programme includes live interviews with people involved in education and research, and those who have excelled in other related fields.

Programme 4, Teaching and Assessment

Broadcast on Saturday 15 June 2002, TV One, 6.15 – 9am.
Repeat: Saturday 28 September 2002, TV One, 6.15 – 9am.

Ministry of Education segments

Visit the Knowledge Breakfast information on TKI (http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/know_break/) and visit the nzoom.com site (http://knowledge.nzoom.com) to read about this episode of the Knowledge Breakfast series, and to view streaming video files of the Ministry commissioned segments.

Schools might find these items of value as part of their staff and professional development programmes, board of trustees meetings, and as useful illustrative material for their local parents/caregivers and communities.

Digest: "Montage New Zealand"

Montage New Zealand is a new online collaborative environment through which young people in schools across New Zealand can work and share together with their peers on a project or theme – online. Schools can also link with overseas schools to explore their ideas and work.

Montage is an initiative of the British Council in Australia and began its days in Sydney as an Australian–based environment. Recently the Council asked the team at CWA New Media and Multi Serve to establish a Montage New Zealand – and this site is soon to be released.

"Junk to Gems" is one of the first projects on the New Zealand site, and Kim Tautari, of St Peter Chanel School, Hamilton joins Montage Project Manager, Lucy Ryan, and British Council representative, Barbara Procter, to discuss what happening on the project, including their collaboration with a school in Wales.

Ministry Interview: "What Makes a Good Teacher?"

Producer: The Ministry of Education http://www.minedu.govt.nz

Schools are doings things a little differently when it comes to their teaching and learning programmes, and this includes the role of assessment in the equation.

Once, schools might have focussed on assessment to "prove learning", but now it's about "improving learning", making the connection between what students are trying to achieve and how teachers will know if it has been achieved, letting the students in on the secret of expectations, and on the way fostering a love of learning which aims to support a lifelong learner.

In this week's live interview to explore the attributes of a good teacher are Ministry Matrix Manager Mary Chamberlain, who is joined by Ann Alkema, Facilitator, Social Sciences at the Ministry and Gary Tenbeth, Principal, College Street School, Dunedin.

To enquire about a copy of this item, email KB@tki.org.nz.

Associated links:

Assessment kete on TKI: http://www.tki.org.nz/e/assessment/
Exemplar collection on TKI: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/index_e.php

Guests:

Mary Chamberlain, Matrix manager, Ministry of Education
Ann Alkema, facilitator, Social Sciences, Ministry of Education
Gary Tenbeth, principal, College Street School, Dunedin

Spotlight on TKI: "Searching on TKI"

Producer: The Learning Centre Trust of New Zealand http://www.learningcentretrust.org.nz for The Ministry of Education
Age level: Schools and the general public

Te Kete Ipurangi (http://www.tki.org.nz) is the Ministry of Education's bilingual portal plus community for schools. It is a dynamic site which offers a "first stop" for quality assured materials and pathways of relevance to teaching and learning in New Zealand schools.

In this week's regular "Spotlight on TKI", we look at ways to search TKI's growing resources.

To enquire about a copy of this item, email KB@tki.org.nz

Associated Links:

Te Kete Ipurangi http://www.tki.org.nz
TKI Community page http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/
TKI Search page http://www.tki.org.nz/e/search/

Parents as Partners: "Feedback"

Producer: The Learning Centre Trust of New Zealand http://www.learningcentretrust.org.nz for The Ministry of Education.

Parents are their children's first teachers - but it can be daunting to know what best to do for your child. In this regular weekly segment, we explore the role of feedback.

This week, presenter David Copeland is joined by Ministry of Education staff member, Ro Parsons, to look at how schools can best report to parents on the learning progress of students and how parents can find out more.