learning
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Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
Enough about covid: Adventure program to help low decile learners enter university makes a splash
Groundbreaking new pilot project launches to help students in low decile schools pursue tertiary study. Fortunately able to go ahead…
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Education
Gov rushes to roll out learning from home for all NZ kids
The 4 channels for learners include print copies, additional devices and wifi connection support, TV programming and online resources for…
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Education
Learning at home: start with relationships
Ākonga and whānau will look to you for guidance and support as they adjust to thinking about learning at home,…
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News
Your stories: Omakere School’s journey to Environmental Manaakitanga
Omakere's normal school year centres around a whole-school inquiry into its environment: "Most of our class work, including literacy and…
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Health & Safety
Coronavirus, kids and school closings: A public health expert answers 4 questions
New York City made headlines today as it closed schools until further notice. New Zealand may soon do the same…
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News
Answering questions about coronavirus? Here’s an expert round-up
What is it? Should schools close? How are other countries responding? What strategies are working? We share a round-up of…
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News
How can video assist your classroom?
Video is second nature to our learners, who are used to high-impact, short form content. How can we take advantage…
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Industry Voices
Children’s agency, a champion, and a model for advocacy
There is unprecedented interest in two big ideas: child agency and child voice. What facilitates a rights-based learning setting? What…
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Teachers' Desk
You can do it! A ‘growth mindset’ helps us learn
When I teach, in both schools and university, I encourage students at the end of a teaching session to identify…
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News
Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students’ academic success
Students who can regulate these tough emotions will achieve more. Anxiety will not impair the test performance. They can push…
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Administration
MoE announces new school ‘Arts Partnership Programme’
The projects can range from contemporary dance to ceramic sculpture, Māori fibre weaving to digital mixed media.
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Industry Voices
What schools SHOULD do about teen vaping
Hysteria or genuine concern? A survey of 30,000 Year 10 students examined how prevalent teen vaping was in 2019. Schools…
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News
NZ kids’ dream careers unveil unconscious social bias
7,700 primary and intermediate students drew what they want to be when they grow up: 50% drew one of just…
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Education
“It ain’t what you do, it’s the way you do it.” Well, both”
So far, so good. But one thing we know from the initial introduction of NCEA, and from the 1990s and…
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For Fun
If you can read this headline, you can read a novel. Here’s how to ignore your phone and just do it
In 1980, 60% of 18-year-old school students read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school.…
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Health & Safety
Creative toolbox helps teachers and children after Australian bush fires
The Banksia Initiative met in Sydney, with a practical arts-based workshop on the second day for around 50 teachers. A webinar for…
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Administration
School attendance drop concerns educators
“But it is clear from the patterns of absences – they are worse on Mondays and Fridays, and 22% of…
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Education
STEAM ahead with new future-focused pathways
Meet the students who presented their project to Dr Jane Goodall! Find out why STEAM programs are so good at…
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Industry Voices
Growing future Māori leaders the focus of new programme
“Students will realise an in-depth level of mātauranga Māori, a high level of te reo Māori and strong leadership skills.…
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Education
Secondary students can now compete for prestigious literary mentorship
Applications have opened for four New Zealand teenagers to be mentored by a professional writer in order to develop their…
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Events
A book in every school to get more girls in science
Students who spend time with working scientists have a much more positive impression of STEM careers than those who only…
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Education
Teachers hope to end “near death” of arts in school
Visual arts, music, dance and drama, the life blood of a creative education have been systematically dismantled from schools.
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Education
Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on engineering
When kids make guitars, they learn the math and science, but also the importance of mechanical precision, the design process…
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News
Are maintenance costs jeopardising school swimming lessons?
Public schools are not building new pools and many of those already in existence may be decades old and need…
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Health & Safety
New youth vaping study splits opinion
While there's no 'epidemic' in NZ, Māori health advocates remain concerned and have called for government action.
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