Category Education

Learning and Teaching and Learning

This week, the Minister published a new announcement through the media. The headline: “Hekia Parata – Let’s make learning better.” For whatever reason, this completely grated with all sense and sensibility within me. Something just didn’t ring right grammatically. I’ve…

The Answer to everything is not an App.

It’d seem that there is a reliance on tech and apps to meet the needs of students with learning difficulties. While there are apps and assistive technologies to help students with their learning, the reliance or focus on one particular…

ERO strikes again. Seriously!?

In their latest document of propaganda, ERO have made the following recommendations for schools to work towards improving the way they deliver education for their students. It is, however, only in draft format in it’s present state, but makes pretty…

Inherit Racism in NZ Education

Time and time again, we are told about the ‘long tail of underachievement’ and the hideously stereotyped over representation of Māori students within it. And because there is a ‘problem’, it seems that everyone is solely focussed on the achievement…