National Standards Plus
Seriously. How ridiculous? Mum is running late for work, driving over the hill to her 9 til 5 job in the city centre. A notification comes through on her phone at 9:01am, and although she knows she shouldn’t, she checks…
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Future of education in NZ for National freightrain
In response to NZ Herald – Every child’s chance to learn second language: National’s education policy – 27 August 2017. Whilst some schools are struggling to get students to learn a first language, we’ll be teaching them coding and a…
Primary schools to measure student progress
In response to – August 26, 2017. Measure. Measure. Measure. Weigh. Weigh. Weigh. Data. Data. Data. “The Government has made a decision to shift towards a system that measures student progress, alongside National Standards / Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori,…
Community of Learning: Devoid of Individuality
Over the last few nights, I have worked away going through all 61 of the accepted and approved Achievement Challenges that active CoL’s have put out. I spent time going through each one and noting down the key aspects of…
NZCER – National Standards in their seventh year
National Standards in their seventh year – NZCER At the mid point of 2016, we were presented with a survey which was sent off to NZCER for the current views of teaching proffesionals views on National Standards. 6 months later,…
Hekia Parata: Let’s be better learning
I do love it when the Minister writes an open letter. It means she says what she thinks people want to hear, rather than what she actually does when people aren’t looking, taking the leadership stance of “Do as I say,…
Do as I say, not do as I do – Consulting the Community
A rising trend is occurring right before our eyes, and it’s more than concerning. It’s definitely poor role-modelling, and is more than just a little unfair. For years the Education Review Office has been wandering around the country critiquing schools…
Student achievement to be used to fund schools under new model
How well students perform in the classroom will soon play a part in how much funding a school gets. Source: Student achievement to be used to fund schools under new model | Stuff.co.nz Here we go. All the haters out…
The Other Side of the PaCT Coin
Last time I was here Last year I wrote an article about the Progress and Consistency Tool. I tried to take a fairly positive approach to it, and tried to advocate as best I could for schools getting involved. This…
No to League Tables
“Have we introduced league tables? No.” Hekia Parata said this in a meeting at a school as she rattled off a number of things ‘scaremongers’ had said would happen in regards to GERM. This included things like Performance Pay. This statement…