News tagged with "Curriculum"
Support for secondary middle leaders
25 August 2010
If you're a secondary middle leader check out the dedicated middle leaders area on the New Zealand Curriculum Online website. It focuses on helping you to work with your department to implement the NZC.From August 2010 regular topics in a series will be published that focus on a central theme....
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Download the Secondary Update newsletter
28 May 2010
Secondary Update is a new quarterly newsletter just sent out to all secondary principals and subject associations. It contains "need to know" secondary information. The first newsletter contains details about: changed achievement standards changed literacy and numeracy requirements literacy and numeracy unit standards guides for designing New Zealand Curriculum-aligned senior...
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Report released on Teacher Professional Development Languages (TPDL)
24 May 2010
This recently released report aimed to inform the Ministry of Education about Teacher Professional Development Languages (TPDL). The purpose of TLPD was to build capacity in teachers of language working across years 7 to 10. This initiative had three components: opportunities for teachers to gain a language qualification, an opportunity...
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Asia aware grants available to schools
12 May 2010
The Asia New Zealand Foundation invites principals to apply for an Asia Aware Grant for their school. The grants, valued at $5,000, are designed to support the development of Asia Awareness at primary and secondary school levels.The grant is for spending on promoting Asia in schools - from buying resources...
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National Standards: leadership links
03 February 2010
This page on Educational Leaders brings together links to information and tools that will support school leaders in the important task of implementing National Standards in 2010. Go to leadership links page
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Find out about a funded programme to support your language teachers
02 December 2009
The Teacher Professional Development Languages (TPDL) Years 7-10 programme supports teachers to acquire the skills they need to be effective language teachers. Language study is one component of this Ministry of Education-funded programme for secondary and pre-secondary teachers.As well as language study, teachers complete a graduate level university paper in...
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National standards released
23 October 2009
National Standards come into effect in 2010 for English-medium schools with students in Years 1 to 8. The standards set clear expectations that students need to meet in reading, writing and mathematics in the first eight years at school. The English-medium National Standards packs are being distributed to schools from...
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New curriculum implementation resource
01 September 2009
Check out The Connected Curriculum, a new implementation resource from NZEI. It has been sent to primary schools in print and DVD formats, and can also be downloaded from the NZEI website. It features: short videos of school principals discussing the New Zealand Curriculum short videos of Lester Flockton discussing...
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NZCER student engagement conference in September
30 July 2009
Improving learning involves engaging the minds, hearts, and imaginations of young people. It means building on what they already know, believe, care about, and hope for in the future, so that they become active and committed life-long learners. This mix of behaviour, emotion, and cognition is known as student engagement.A...
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Feedback on National Standards consultation
23 July 2009
Consultation on the Literacy and Numeracy National Standards in English-medium settings for students in years 1 to 8 finished on 3 July 2009. More than 4500 parents, whānau, teachers, principals, and trustees took part and in excess of 2000 submissions were received. The final report is still under development, but...
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