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Monthly Archives: February 2016
I’ve had enough: the truth about high stakes assessment and inflation Part 2
There may be those who question why I should be raising such an uncomfortable subject. My answer is that without confronting high stakes assessment (of the sort pertaining) nothing will change in New Zealand school education: teachers and principals will … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Assessment, Education, Education policy, National standards, NCEA, Politics
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Warwick Elley: Why Are We Squandering $359 Million on Misguided Education Policies?
There is nothing new in what Warwick Elley so professionally and fluently describes below. All this was known before the teacher organisations committed themselves to money being spent on policies that constitute a tragically wrong policy direction: it entrenches all … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Education Policy
Tagged Academics, children, Clusters, Education, Education policy, IES, Politics
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Attack! 19 Printmaking at the centre of nearly everything 3
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Teaching
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 18 Printmaking at the centre of nearly everything 2
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Curriculum, Schooling, Teaching
Tagged children, Curriculum, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 17 Printmaking at the centre of nearly everything 1
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Gerritsen sides with Parata over socio-economic influences on school learning
John Gerritsen reports thus: It was based on the results of tests of 15-year-olds conducted in 2012 for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Initial reporting in 2013 said New Zealand’s results were above average, but had worsened and … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Academics, Education, Education policy, Hekia, Ministry of Education, Schooling
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I’ve had enough: the truth about high stakes assessment and inflation Part 1
A major difficulty is that the current assessment system is not about children, if it were there would be no great difficulty in changing it, but it is really about controlling the system through the instruments the assessment system provides … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Assessment, Education policy, Ministry of Education, National standards, Politics
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Attack! 16 Teacher Diary 2
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Curriculum, Education
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 15 Holistic mathematics Part 1
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Indicators: a tumbling, fractious, tautologous, pretentious assembly – and The point
I know it is a bit of a litany by now, but I was trained as primary teacher – was a teacher, deputy-principal, and principal for ten years, then a social studies teachers college lecturer for six years, and 15 … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Education policy, ERO, Ministry of Education, Neoliberalism, Politics, Schooling
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