Digital Curriculum: Destiny or Disaster?
From the first day of full time employment at a school, I was put in charge of “Technology”, not for my design process skills, but for my knowledge of ICT and computers. I became...
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Parents want teachers parenting
Care provider. Call centre operator. Kitchen hand. Negotiator. Detective. Judge. Medic. Counsellor. Social worker. Psychologist. Personal trainer. Caretaker. Cleaner. Don’t get me started on the numerous things that teachers have to do each and...
Māori Language Resources for Teachers | SchoolNews
Original article: https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2017/08/maori-language-resources-for-teachers/ Resources to help teachers prepare for Māori Language Week and to normalise use of Te Reo in the classroom. He uri nō Koterana e mihi nei. Ko Benechie te maunga. Ko Dee te awa....
Stop Teaching Students What to Think. Teach Them How to Think
Original article here: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/09/27/stop-teaching-students-what-to-think.html For more than a century, we’ve been creating an industrial workforce of human automatons, built for the purpose of performing routine labor not yet doable by machines. And we’ve been operating...
From next year, more than 250 year 9s at Wellington Girls’ College will learn Māori | Stuff.co.nz
Wellington Girls’ College is set to introduce compulsory te reo classes for all year 9 students, after years of obstacles. The scheme, which begins next year, was something principal Julia Davidson said the school had been...
Killing Cortisol: What if Education and Poverty aren’t to blame?
Over the last year and a half, I have been thinking on this, ever since being introduced to the stress hormone cortisol. As always, I looked for a different way of presenting what I...