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Here are some professional development opportunities provided
by subject associations for health, physical education, outdoor
education, and home economics.
Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ)
Home Economics and Technology Teachers Association
(HETTANZ)
New Zealand Health Teachers Association (NZHTA)
Physical Education New Zealand (PENZ)
Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ)
EONZ provides a range of courses for the teaching of outdoor education. These are user pays and are provided regionally for primary and secondary teachers, and other outdoor educators.
Outdoor 1 qualification
Outdoor 1 is the baseline qualification for teachers and leaders taking groups
on well-formed tracks and overnight experiences in the outdoors. It involves
training courses and 2 day assessment courses.
Outdoor safety management for schools
- Legal obligations, safe professional practice – introduction to outdoor
safety management for teachers and senior management – 2.5 hour
- Outdoor safety management for BOTs – 1.5 hour
- Outdoor safety management for teachers – 5 hours involves both theory and practical applications.
Curriculum delivery
- Outdoor education in the health and physical education curriculum statement
(4 hours)
- Safe outdoor learning experiences for the health and physical education curriculum statement (1 day).
Other courses
These are available on a regional basis according to demand and include skill
development opportunities, for example, kayaking, abseiling, bushcraft, planning
a school camp, and activities for education outside the clasroom (EOTC).
See also the opportunities to gain further qualifications from other groups,
for example, New
Zealand Mountain Safety Council, New
Zealand Outdoors Instructors Association.
An updated list of courses run by EONZ is available from their website
http://www.eonz.org.nz
Contact – General enquiries: EONZ Administrator eonzadmin@outdoorsnz.org.nz
or Catherine Kapelle, hedoutdoors@xtra.co.nz or eonz.eo@clear.net.nz
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Home Economics and Technology Teachers Association (HETTANZ)
HETTANZ provides workshops and a biennial conference.
National Certificate workshops for teachers of year 9 and 10 students, including
the key area of learning food and nutrition. The assessment used in this programme
is modeled on NCEA assessment.
Contact: Pat Street
Email: pat.street@xtra.co.nz
New Zealand Health Teachers Association (NZHTA)
NZHTA provides support for primary and secondary teachers of health education.
Teachers are encouraged to contact their local NZHTA representative through
Mary-Anne McAllum
NZHTA Representatives:
Mary Hammonds – Auckland
Carol Power – Waikato/Bay of Plenty
Karen Gill and Nicky Depree – Manawatu/Hawkes Bay
Barbara Batchelor and Gillian Tasker – Canterbury
Lynne Aldridge and Barbara Ferguson – Dunedin
Physical Education New Zealand (PENZ)
PENZ provides support for physical education by providing a range of professional
development opportunities for educators in the early childhood educators, primary,
secondary and tertiary sectors, and for providers of physical activity opportunities
within schools. Professional development opportunities include workshops, and
the annual PENZ Conference.
Visit the PENZ website http://www.penz.org.nz
for current information.
Contact: Simon Jackson
Email: info@penz.org.nz
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