Tuesday 29 September 2015

Wednesday 30 September 2015

Third generation of Life Education classroom popular with Hutt Valley schools - Stuff.co.nz
It seems you can teach an old giraffe new tricks after all - if the overhaul of the Hutt Valley's Life Education Trust classroom is anything to go by. The classroom, home to Harold the Giraffe, received a significant upgrade before hitting its circuit ...

Virulent teacher education market tough on schools
In a bid to address this PPTA's executive, in consultation with the association's Otago region, has put together a paper for PPTA's annual conference to discuss this afternoon. The Initial teacher education in change: But is it for the better? paper ...

Middle leadership in crisis – PPTA - Scoop.co.nz
Middle managers play a vital role in curriculum delivery at secondary schools but the pressure is building with increasing workload demands (particularly around NCEA) compromising this. Following a resolution at last year's PPTA annual conference the ...

'No evidence' uni success correlates with later achievement
Businesses may be placing less importance on university degrees than in previous years but employees with tertiary education still earn more on average than those that don't, according to research by recruitment company absoluteIT.In...

Humanities deans warn against publishing job, salary data
The Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce has told all Universities, Wananga and Polytechnics that from 2017 they will have to publish information about the employment status and earnings of their graduates. Professor of Politics, Richard Shaw is Massey University's BA director, who has been looking at the role of universities in producing graduates who can meet the needs of the labour market.

Teachers in Wellington to discuss workloads, leadership, NCEA
Delegates will be discussing the future of NCEA, crisis in school middle leadership, workload issues, the threat of charter schools and changes in initial teacher education among other pressing issues. They will debate and vote on papers that will ...

Art students to showcase project-based learning
The first students to enrol in New Zealand's first project-based-learning arts and design degree are fine-tuning work for ideaschool's graduate exhibition A Feast for the Senses. The cohort of 34 students, the largest graduating class in EIT's three ...

Teachers get chance to network online
Online events and activities include forums and conversations with experts, webinars, virtual guided tours, Maori and Pasifika learning and live streams from the ULearn15 educators' conference. Western Heights High School teacher Alex Le Long is .

Teacher accused of striking children re-employed
Education officials are "extremely concerned" a Porirua early childhood centre has re-employed a teacher accused of striking children.The centre has again hired one of the teachers at the centre of allegations three years ago.Katrina..


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