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1. ianmac 1

   4 October 2012 at 12:27 pm

   If so-called good teachers receive Performance Pay, in what way would that change the performance of those who are not”good” teachers? Would they all suddenly be good so that they would collect the bonus? Assuming that being a good teacher is known, and it is not. Bill Gates is putting up about $300 million to try and find out, so it is not known yet.
   As for Mz Parata what is her real agenda?
   • Dr Terry 1.1

     4 October 2012 at 5:35 pm

     ianmac. Perhaps her real agenda right now is to revert to being “Lady Gardiner”, it just might win a tiny bit of respect where all else has failed.
2. Frida 2

   4 October 2012 at 12:36 pm

   What is happening in ChCh is New Orleans and disaster capitalism all over again. Parata is being played for a fool by her Friedman-loving fellow Nats and she has no clue. I said to myself at the time of the earthquakes Joyce, Key etc must be rubbing their hands in glee at the ‘blank slate’ it provided them with and so it is coming to pass.
3. Tony P 3

   4 October 2012 at 1:02 pm

   Two days earlier Parata addressed the NZEI conference. Seems she was as combative there also but this hasn’t been reported. Here’s a report from someone who was there.

   She started off by thanking us for doing a great job because NZ is up there in the world rankings. Then she spanked us. Told us that teachers didn’t have scientific knowledge and confidence to teach science. Told us that too many teachers don’t know how to teach reading. Told us off for teaching numeracy and literacy in isolation and not integrating the curriculum. Told us off for not being innovative.Well Minister, why did your govt sack all the science advisors that helped schools and teacher have a science programme? Oh that’s right, you were creating a more contestable advisory service. That worked, not.

   Well Minister, why did your govt dump the Literacy Project that was improving the teaching of reading and writing?
   Oh that’s right, you lot began National Standards and diverted the funds.
   Well Minister, with the focus on National Standards, I guess many schools have gone down the road of literacy and numeracy in isolation to meet the standards. After all, your lot told us that we had to focus on literacy and numeracy and the rest of our world leading curriculum didn’t matter so much, because your lot gave us that stupid National Standards document (not so world leading) instead. 
   Personally I haven’t and I know lots of teachers who also are resisting this…. but when your senior staff direct…..
   And every school that I have seen that has tried to be innovative (think Moerewa for example), the MOE and you have slapped down Minister.
   I could poke more holes in her speech, but I have a dinner to go to. But Frances Nelson said it well when she asked us if we felt like going to stand in the corner facing away from all others!!!
   • Draco T Bastard 3.1

     4 October 2012 at 4:37 pm

     She started off by thanking us for doing a great job because NZ is up there in the world rankings. Then she spanked us.

     LOL

     She must have recently re-read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
   • Georgecom 3.2

     4 October 2012 at 9:30 pm

     If this report of what Parata said is accurate then all we can do is put our heads in our hands and groan.

     ‘Don’t have knowledge and confidence to teach science’. As stated, science advisors scrapped. Professiona Development money diverted into trying to sell National Standards.

     ‘Don’t know how to teach reading’. Again, as stated, literacy professional development sidelined in favour of National Standards focused seminars etc.

     ‘Isolated teaching of literacy and numeracy rather than an integrated curriculum’. I wonder exactly what Tolley and Parata have been doing over the past 4 years. Time and again the issue of a narrowing of the curriculum has been raised. Have the 2 Ministers not been listening? The teaching profession would absolutely like to teach an integrated curriculum. The new curriculum, introduced 2-3 years back, encouraged exactly that. Rather than focus on bedding it in, however, Tolley luanched National Standards and put all the focus and all the funding on that.

     If Paratas comments have been reported accurately (and I have no reason to doubt it) then the woman hasn’t bothered to spend much time understanding the education sector.
4. higherstandard 4

   4 October 2012 at 1:02 pm

   She is demonstrably a buffoon.
   • Akldnut 4.1

     4 October 2012 at 4:26 pm

     A smiling buffoon – “The Gift” that keeps giving.
5. Dv 5

   4 October 2012 at 1:56 pm

   Also the teachers getting the names wrong just doesn’t ring true. (I am sure there are some problems. I believe some politicians have problems with their pronunciation)

   “It starts with pronouncing names correctly. It’s one of the most common things I hear [from] focus groups with Maori and Pacifica kids.”
   AND
   “That is what I get from kids telling me that they don’t see themselves as being valued because of just the basic courtesy of being able to learn how to pronounce their names. I’m just reporting that back,” she said.

   “focus groups” and “kids telling me that they don’t see themselves as being valued” are NOT the same.

   I would be surprised if kids did that without prompting and the terminology of ‘not being valued’ is a construct and not what the kids would say.
   In an earlier report it was said ‘young’ children said this. Probably then not secondary kids.

   AND
   How does Paratas comment to NZEI and PPTA show she values the teachers!!!!
6. crashcart 6

   4 October 2012 at 3:27 pm

   And the golden nugget was when she failed to pronounce “pronounce” correctly. Not the word in that sentance she wanted to stumble over.
7. Tiger Mountain 7

   4 October 2012 at 4:17 pm

   Lady Gardiner is a shocker alright. The ‘ministry of magic’ is light on decent people these days, the talent there has deserted in droves, and ex Hogwarts ring-in Lesley Longstone as Secretary? Good grief.

   Fortunately against the odds teachers have maintained a high level of unionisation and in a strange old way the 80s reforms of involving the community via BOTs despite principals enduring distrust of them, has seen front foot rather than rear guard reactions to some of the Natz destruction.

   Hectoring Hekia will get hers.
8. captain hook 8

   4 October 2012 at 5:02 pm

   only in NZ can a collection of idiots totally unfitted for the job get control of the education system.
   I know.
   We can get Warner Brothers to make a movie about it?
   • Dr Terry 8.1

     4 October 2012 at 5:39 pm

     Do Warner Brothers make satirical cartoons?
9. CeeHad 9

   4 October 2012 at 5:41 pm

   I dont believe a word Hekia says about maori and pacifica kids being concerned about their names being said incorrectly. Rubbish! That was something that happened back in the 70s, and if Campbell Live could be bothered doing a survey about it, again her facts would be proven wrong. I do not want the Minister of Ed speaking on behalf of any of my whanau particularly my mokopuna. Her remark is obnoxious and ignorant and in fact could damage a relationship that has taken years to build. Stupid woman!
   • Reagan Cline 9.1

     4 October 2012 at 6:39 pm

     The deputy head of music at St Cuthberts’s showed difficulty in pronouncing a child’s maori first name and humiliated the child thereby in front of other children and parents.

     I have heard other people deliberately mis-pronouncing maori words as an act of defiance.

     I struggle to respect such people.
     • CeeHad 9.1.1

       5 October 2012 at 7:36 am

       I hope the deputy head was reprimanded. I hope the child was encouraged and reassured about his or her name and that the problem is really with those who have difficulty with pronunciation, especially of another language or culture (eg hip-hop names). Majority of people do try to get it right – the tv hosts are a good role model. Does Parata really care about the education of our kids? I dont think so – judging by her performance and behaviour to date. Hopeless. What a laughing stock to National.
     • framu 9.1.2

       5 October 2012 at 8:08 am

       While im not surprised at all that certain people at an independant school in epsom pronounce maori words incorrectly in an act of defiance. I would hazard a guess that its the exception rather than the rule (even within St Cuth’s) and says vastly more about the culture of the school and its location than the teaching profession as a whole

       Yes, I struggle to respect such people as well – but im going to keep the finger pointed at st cuth’s on that one
   • North 9.2

     5 October 2012 at 10:09 pm

     A stupid potato (brown on the outside [when it suits] white on the inside) person who thinks the world starts and ends with her fabulously rich idol Slimey Johnny Key.

     No wonder that in Moerewa they whisper mockingly “Ha…….Heki Pirau” – means rotten egg.
10. captain hook 10

    4 October 2012 at 6:36 pm

    Heka Parati is more than a fool.
    if she continues down the path she has taken then she will open a pandoras box that will never be closed.
    the fact of the matter is that Maori had no history till the Europeans arrived.
    They had no written language so how could they?
    Furthermore the mythology that many have espoused was invented for them by educated Europeans.
    If Paratai insists on going down this path then she is trying to put the case that of all the neolithic survivors in the world that Maori are the only ones that have managed to do what no other group of humans has ever managed before.
    This is not to denigrate Maori but to inform Ms Paratai that most to the time she hasn’t got a frigging clue about any of the claims that she mouths so freely and that while what happened in history is of more interest to nationalistic boosters the main import of history is to enable the historian and the layman to compare and contrast the full panoply of human endeavour.
    • Te Reo Putake 10.1

      4 October 2012 at 6:44 pm

      “the fact of the matter is that Maori had no history till the Europeans arrived. They had no written language so how could they?”
       
      Should you really be commenting on a post about education?
      • Tiger Mountain 10.1.1

        4 October 2012 at 6:52 pm

        Arrrgh! the Cap’n be hooked by his own soft bait.
        • Jokerman 10.1.1.1

          4 October 2012 at 6:55 pm

          Aye me hearties!
      • karol 10.1.2

        4 October 2012 at 6:55 pm

        A standard definition of history, is that its the record of societies that have developed writing.  The record of societies before writing developed is usually called pre-history – but I guess there’s a European bias to those definitions.
        • Jokerman 10.1.2.1

          4 October 2012 at 7:06 pm

          consider the Pentateuch / Torah; Mishnah

          was into giving a little oral myself, but i digress…..
11. Jokerman 11

    4 October 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Piranha- the smiling assassin
12. captain hook 12

    4 October 2012 at 6:56 pm

    trp
    should I be commenting on a post about edjamacation.
    I dunno?
    shud eye?
13. Dianne Khan 13

    5 October 2012 at 8:51 pm

    Now THIS is how it should be done:
    http://saveourschoolsnz.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/pasi-sahlberg-the-finnish-education-system/
14. millsy 14

    5 October 2012 at 9:36 pm

    When a National Party maori woman minister of education starts going on about pronunciation and NZ history in our schools, you know its time for the left to stop its obsession with identity politics.
    • North 14.1

      5 October 2012 at 10:11 pm

      Wank wank Millsy.

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