Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick
National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation
If 2017 heralded the start of a new educational era, then 2018 the whole school curriculum. There is no one measure that must is the year of making it happen. The summer holidays offered be used. It is up to us to decide. me a perfect opportunity to pull back and take a good look at Evaluation of learning and reporting to parents isn’t the our education system from the safe distance of the South Island’s only area up for change. The Minister also wants to return West Coast. Enveloped in the deep green cloak of pristine New democratic values to the Education Council. There currently Zealand bush, I felt a sense of peace is a bill before parliament proposing and equilibrium. For the first time He justified these to increase the number of Council in a long time I could think calmly members to thirteen, and to allow about the future of education in New changes saying he wanted to the profession to elect seven of their Zealand without the pangs of panic members, rather than have all see less testing and more own that have haunted and distracted me, members appointed by the Minister. as another unwelcome compliance teaching. The bill also proposes to change the issue has landed on my desk. That’s name of the Education Council to how it has been for some years. We as leaders in our schools Teachers’ Council. were losing our sense of autonomy to make decisions that were Another bill is set to permanently remove all reference in the best interests of our students and our local communities. to national standards from legislation and to remove the We were feeling more and more that the power was shifting back to the Centre and our professional knowledge and expertise was being marginalized. Calm does not equate to inertia however and my mind quickly turned to ‘what happens when . . . ?’ mode. Already we had BLUE CREAM been given a sense of the new direction for education. It would Pantone (PMS) : 566 Pantone (PM CMYK : 24/2/15/0 CMYK : 7/4/ be based on high quality public education and it would not be RGB : 193/223/217 RGB : 233/2 HEX : #c1dfd9 HEX : #e9ec centred around assessment measures. Minister Hipkins signaled an end to national standards and a rethink of NCEA assessment before the summer recess. He justified these changes saying he AN ALL YEAR ROUND wanted to see less testing and more teaching. FUNDRAISING SOLUTION That does not mean teachers will no longer evaluate their students’ learning. Teachers have always evaluated learning Give Socially is an online gift Brannboll store Fet progress so they can work out the next learning steps for each where 15 – 20% of every purchase Avenir Next (Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, De made by your parents, families and individual student. The difference is that the focus will no longer Heavy, Heavy Italic) school community is donated directly be on comparing students, teachers and schools on an arbitrary back to your school. set of standards. Rather, the focus will be on the learning journey of each individual student. Standardization has gone along with the competition it engendered, the narrowed curriculum, the CMYK (Print) obsession with data, and the endless comparisons. Adjusting to a new way of thinking will take time. For many, the first reaction has been to ask, ‘What will replace national standards?’ This is an understandable question given we have OVER 900 had a decade of reporting based on standardized assessment. POPULAR GIFTS Now, we will report to parents based on the best evaluation of TOYS & PUZZLES HOMEWARES learning we believe is appropriate for our school contexts. The SCHOOL GEAR power has been returned to us as leaders of our schools to make Get your school involved CHILDREN’S BOOKS givesocially.co.nz WOMEN’S GIFTS those decisions in consultation with our school communities. COOKBOOKS What the Minister has asked is that we continue to report to MEN’S GIFTS PHONE 0508 30 60 90 parents at least twice a year and that we do so in a way that helps them understand the progress that their child has made across
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legislation that enabled charter schools. With the new emphasis on supporting a high quality public education system, there is no place to accommodate government funded charter school businesses. Those existing charter schools that have survived and whose students are progressing well in their learning will not necessarily close. They will have the opportunity to continue their good work as a different type of school, such as an integrated special character school or a private school, or a mainstream public school. The Minister will negotiate with each of the charter schools’ sponsors to determine their future shape. What we do know for certain is that there will be no further contracts signed to establish any more charter schools. Our challenge now is to ask ourselves, ‘How can we take advantage of this new thinking about education to help establish systems that will endure? How can we establish systems that will provide greater learning opportunities for our young people? What are the best ways to provide meaningful curriculum support for our school leaders and teachers? How do we lift the status of the profession so that we can secure a future flow of high quality teacher graduates and not have to face the dilemma of future teacher shortages? How can we build a culture of sharing and relationship building both within and between our schools and with our sector organisations? We have the opportunity now to make a real contribution to the future shape of our education system which can mirror our professional experiences, views and knowledge. Ministers are talking about a thirty-year plan for education. I am looking forward to joining you in the year ahead and being part of that planning and transformation of our education system.
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