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Editor I recently listened to a presentation by Dr Welby Ings. If learning environments their teachers have carefully constructed you’ve never heard of him, find his book Disobedient Teaching, around them. and have a read. It’s fascinating. Then there are those who work in the abstract. They won’t do He doesn’t beat about the bush. […]
Editor It always amazes me how much positivity goes on in schools staff member subscribes to this vision, this moral imperative, despite the relentless mountain of education policies, sometimes and does not waver from it. of no relevance to children’s learning, that keep landing on them, The youngsters at Iain’s school are empowered to set […]
Editor By the time you receive the next issue of NZ Principal you will be tracking down the nearest polling booth site to vote in the general election. NZPF sees election time as an opportunity to tell all political parties what values and philosophies drive us and therefore what sort of policies we believe will […]
Editor Of all the provisions in the Update of the Education Act, it The Children’s Commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft, presented a was surprising that ‘cohort enrolment’ would attract such public strong case in his oral submission to the Select Committee saying interest. Children beginning school in cohorts, aged anywhere that the Update of the Act […]
Editor Liz Hawes Executive Officer PO Box 25380 Wellington 6146 Ph: 04 471 2338 Email: Liz.Hawes@nzpf.ac.nz NOVEMBER 2016 2 EDITORIAL 3 PRESIDENT’S PEN Iain Taylor 6 Te Akatea Conference 2016 Magazine Proof-reader Helen Kinsey-Wightman Editorial Board Iain Taylor, NZPF President Geoff Lovegrove, Retired Principal, Feilding Liz Hawes, Editor Advertising Liz Hawes, Editor 11 Global Funding […]
Editor Strange things are happening in our global presentations to the Trans-Tasman conference). The real extent neighbourhood. On the one hand we have just witnessed Great of child poverty, the real effects of a low minimum wage and the Britain take a massively bold step and vote to exit the European real housing crisis are […]
Editor We hear much about the lack of agreed educational they will grow into outstanding principals who will stay in the purpose and loss of a coherent vision for education these days. north and in turn support and coach their own middle leaders Professionals feel rudderless as they try to navigate their way into future […]
Editor As I write this column an OECD report has just emerged families. And how wonderful it would be if he could spend all praising New Zealand teachers for being amongst the most of his time and energy leading his school and its fantastic team professional in the world. In fact we are rated fourth […]
Editor Much is said about the policy, regulatory and system changes that hound schools. Principals report they are buckling under the strain of accommodating changes from which they cannot see worthwhile advantages for children’s learning. They lament that mostly they don’t even see a connection between one change and another. The source of discontent lies […]
Editor Many principals who attended the 2015 conference in Wellington have said that the programme was truly outstanding from beginning to end. I would agree and would add that much of the success was due to the clever way the programme was constructed around the theme of seeing education through different lenses. The lenses could […]
Editor It is impossible not to be affected by the enthusiasm and joie de vivre of young children. One of the great pleasures of writing stories for this magazine is visiting schools and experiencing first-hand the indomitable optimism that children exude. It is not a misguided optimism. Kids are demonstrating that they love to discover […]
Editor Much is happening in education at a political level. Every day the media reveals another reason for the Minister to continue the government’s crusade of radical reform. A recent headline in the Dominion Post drew attention to some examples of school finances not being properly managed. Whether these examples represent tiny or larger transgressions […]
