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RTLB, Te Whiri Kōkō Cluster Abstract: Many primary and secondary schools in New Zealand are searching for cost-effective dyslexia intervention resources to address the needs of students who are at risk of failure in their learning. In 2019 and 2020, Te Whiri Kōkō Resource Teachers: participating schools as having dyslexia or dyslexic tendencies. Learning and […]
Reproduced with permission; Human Givens Journal V.15 – 3: 2008 Aric Sigman explains why craft-based skills are as important as academic skills and need to be taught in all schools. Craft-based curriculum subjects have never had the cachet that more academic subjects enjoy. Yet the practical curriculum has consistently been found to confer more than […]
How children’s everyday lea strengths helped them duri national COVID-19 lockdown Roseanna Bourke, John O’Neill and Sue McDowall I learnt how to knee flip and I was getting close to backflipping but I was too scared of it. But I learnt how to do an aerial—a no-handed cartwheel. I saw videos of how to do […]
NZCER You do the best you can. The difficulty is to individualise within an artificial (timetable) constraint. To meet the needs of students’ wishes, and the community, and collective agreements, is hard (Principal comment in 2018 National Survey, Bonne & MacDonald, 2019, p.53.) Space . . . structures the very way we think about learning, […]
Senior Researcher, New Zealand Council for Educational Research Climate change will have ‘major impacts’ within our students’ lifetimes, according to more than half of the primary and intermediate principals and teachers surveyed by NZCER in 2019 (Figure 1).1 FIGURE 1: What impact will climate change have on the place and community where your school is […]
Assessment practice has changed enormously with student agency and pedagogic voice (student voice about teaching and learning) linked with assessment for learning over the last few years in Aotearoa/New Zealand schools. In this article we share leader voices (with pseudonyms) and findings from our research into dimensions of assessment leadership. These leaders shared deliberate aspects […]
Canterbury primary school principals’ perceptions of wellbeing in the context of their school environment: Wellbeing, schools, people, place and time. Michelle Cole Wellbeing is an increasingly discussed topic in education and wider society, the use of the term was found to have risen in newspapers, from 117 mentions in the late 80’s to 2243 in […]
Leading effective goal pursuit in schools–making the right tweaks Dr Linda Bendikson, Dr Frauke Meyer and Dr Deidre Le Fevre Every year schools submit a copy of their annual plan to the Ministry. For many this means little more than changing the date on the front. In fact, we can say from many years’ working […]
Student voice is key in supporting youth engagement in schools where young people participate, lead and learn. In this article we share key discourses that we found were operating in Aotearoa schools (Charteris & Smardon, 2019a; Charteris & Smardon, 2019b) and we frame questions that could assist you and your colleagues to think about your […]
A tool to gauge collaborative Susan Lovett Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, the University of Canterbury Lyn Bird Principal, Selwyn House School The word ‘collaboration’ appears frequently and seems almost to be taken for granted in matters related to school leadership. It is nevertheless challenging work, easier in the saying than the doing. The purpose […]
Understanding leadership dyn school’ roles – and moving forw Phil Ramsey Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Massey University Jenny Poskitt Associate Head of the Institute of Education, Massey University Involvement in Kāhui Ako, or cluster, initiatives has unearthed some leadership tensions and dilemmas. Leadership can be both formal and informal, but at its […]
A Perennial Controversy? Religious Instruction in New Zealand State Primary Schools Gregory Lee and Howard Lee Regular readers of newspapers, academic education in religious instruction or not. This principle was founded on journals, and professional education magazines will recall having an older precedent – one stemming from the introduction of seen and engaged with several […]
