Wednesday 3 June 2015

Thursday 4 June 2015

Further evidence National Standards need to go
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
It backs up an earlier report by the Ministry as well as findings in 2013 by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research which found that almost 90 percent of principals and teachers believed National Standards were an unreliable measurement of ...

Saudi Arabia—Payments
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
In the same report, Mr Hipkins, and in the New Zealand Council for Educational Research of 2013, it said that 70 percent of teachers were becoming more confident about their own assessments. If the member wants even more numbers, the reason why I am ...

Govt must stop demanding reports on National Standards
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Ministry of Education's latest review of National Standards results today found that the basis of National Standards reporting – the Overall Teacher Judgments (OTJ) made about the level children were performing at – ''strongly suggest the OTJ's ...
Educators NZ
This led to Torrey highlighting the flaws of standardised systems and how these tools have no place in a twenty-first century classroom. According to Torrey, standardised practices are out-dated, can never have a positive impact on children's learning ...

Māori students slightly below in maths, PE - report
Radio New Zealand
The study's manager of assessment design and reporting Charles Darr said while someMāori and Pacific students do excel in the two subjects, the figures were an average. He said although Māori and Pasifika students had been priority learning areas for ...

Back-to-basics call on maths

A report to be launched by the Minister of Education today criticises the way pupils are taught maths and calls on parents to demand a return to basics.The paper, written by a researcher for the New Zealand Initiative (NZI) business...

Is New Zealand's strategy for teaching maths failing?
Glenda Anthony, Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence for Research in Mathematics Education at Massey University.

A new report being launched by the Education Minister today has criticised the way maths is taught to primary students, saying there is a lack of emphasis on the basics which is holding children back. The report, written by researcher Rose Patterson, for the thinktank The New Zealand Initiative, says since the Numeracy Project was launched 15 years ago, maths performance has declined.

Māori students slightly below in maths, PE - report
Radio New Zealand
The study's manager of assessment design and reporting Charles Darr said while someMāori and Pacific students do excel in the two subjects, the figures were an average. He said although Māori and Pasifika students had been priority learning areas for ...

Maths report highlights need for professional development
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A new report about primary school maths achievement highlights concerns aboutprofessional training and development that teachers have been flagging for a long time. The report concluded that a lack of emphasis on the basics was holding children back ..

Society supports discussion on maths teaching
The Royal Society of New Zealand supports discussion on how numeracy is taught in primary schools. The current practice is being called into question by independent think tank The New Zealand Institute’s report Un(ac)countable: Why millions on ...

Schools to be informed of decile review 
Schools that have applied for a review of their decile recalculation will be advised of the outcome over the next ten days. Deputy Secretary for Student Achievement, Dr Graham Stoop, says 160 schools asked ...

Charter schools report top marks
NCEA pass rates of 100 percent and surpluses as high as $600,000 are detailed in the first ever charter school annual reports and financial accounts.

First charter school annual reports published
NCEA pass rates of 100 percent and surpluses as high as half a million dollars are detailed in the first ever charter school annual reports and financial accounts.

How religious education in schools could work
Stuff.co.nz
Religion plays an incredibly important role both in history and in our current times; we live on a religiously diverse planet and within religiously plural societies. However, thriving in the midst of religious pluralism is not always easy; human ...

Education Minister challenged to come clean on charters
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“I challenge the Education Minister to say how many of those students who were enrolled at charter schools at the beginning of 2014, left school that year with a qualification, and why schools like Vanguard and South Auckland Middle School are ...

Innovative Lower Hutt school determined to carry on despite lack of funding
Stuff.co.nz
Three Lower Hutt teachers started Akoranga o Naenae this year, with the idea of getting children more involved in their own learning and increasing the achievementlevels of kids performing below national standard levels. The 48 pupils comprise eight...

Mathematics teaching on agenda at Hutt STEMM Festival 
Helping primary school teachers gain a solid grounding in mathematics teaching so that they can confidently teach the subject in the classroom was the focus of an Open Polytechnic hosted event held this morning (4 June) as part of the Hutt STEMM ...

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