Digital Curriculum: Destiny or Disaster?
From the first day of full time employment at a school, I was put in charge of “Technology”, not for my design process skills, but for my knowledge of ICT and computers. I became the go to guy in fixing…
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Parents want teachers parenting
Care provider. Call centre operator. Kitchen hand. Negotiator. Detective. Judge. Medic. Counsellor. Social worker. Psychologist. Personal trainer. Caretaker. Cleaner. Don’t get me started on the numerous things that teachers have to do each and every day. That’s even before they…
Māori Language Resources for Teachers | SchoolNews
Original article: Resources to help teachers prepare for Māori Language Week and to normalise use of Te Reo in the classroom. He uri nō Koterana e mihi nei. Ko Benechie te maunga. Ko Dee te awa. Ko North te moana. Engari, he Māori āku…
Stop Teaching Students What to Think. Teach Them How to Think
Original article here: For more than a century, we’ve been creating an industrial workforce of human automatons, built for the purpose of performing routine labor not yet doable by machines. And we’ve been operating with the mindset that we should…
From next year, more than 250 year 9s at Wellington Girls’ College will learn Māori | Stuff.co.nz
Wellington Girls’ College is set to introduce compulsory te reo classes for all year 9 students, after years of obstacles. The scheme, which begins next year, was something principal Julia Davidson said the school had been working towards for the past five…
Killing Cortisol: What if Education and Poverty aren’t to blame?
Over the last year and a half, I have been thinking on this, ever since being introduced to the stress hormone cortisol. As always, I looked for a different way of presenting what I found out, and what I think…
Dyslexia in New Zealand Schools
The current support for dyslexic students in New Zealand schools is a joke. An absolute joke. When there is a reportedly 7% of students in New Zealand Schools have Dyslexia, it doesn’t sound like much. However, in a class of…
Lend me your pencils
As the new year begins, I have begun to prepare for the first day back at school, and the remainder of the term, and year. One thing that has always plagued my classroom has been the lack of pencils. Not…
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…