Not sure this will work. It's a letter to Judy Nowotarski (NZEI) from Pem Bird. Bullying is how I would describe it. https://word.office.live.com/wv/WordView.aspx?FBsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdownload%2Ffile_preview.php%3Fid%3D228686887321997%...
So another school closure has been ruled as unlawful. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11138079 That's 2 now that have been challenged and found to be unlawful. She's not doing well with this.
http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ce-appt-moe-july11 Why is our new Chief Executive and Secretary of Education someone from England with no experience in NZ education but plenty of experience in bringing about "change"? For an informed opinion read here. http://blog....
So it's not about improving children's learning then. Tolley should be honest about it then and say it's a (unscientific) tool to assess teachers worth and subsequently and subtly bring in performance pay, although how you judge a teachers performance on ...
National Standards, don’t work. - do work, teachers don’t want to implement them Are you a teacher? Have you worked with the mess that is NS? Have you experienced the poor Professional Development that has the presenters only one step ahead of teachers ...
School holidays after an extra long term thanks to the RWC
Felt it here in Napier too, as I was conducting a parent/teacher interview at school.
Just thought I'd throw this in here. A good blog post from an educationalist about the differences between "marking" and providing good feedback. It has relavence to the whole NS discussion.
Right from the start National Standards has been a very simplistic answer to the complex problems of children's learning. Only an ill informed fool would expect all children's learning to suddenly reach a certain level simply by setting the standard and ...
I resemble that video!!!!
With regards to the Public Service cuts one area where the government is going to save money is in their contribution to Public Service super funds such as the teacher one that I'm in. Currently my 3% gets matched by 3% from my employer the govt. The plan ...
Anne Tolley shows her complete lack of competence once again. Most telling comment when commenting on increased ECE costs. “it’s not valued unless there’s a cost to it.”
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