Principals

Professional Development

Study Awards, Sabbaticals, Support Grants:

Ministry of Education funded Study Awards, Sabbaticals and Study Support Grants for 2012 will be open for applications in March next year. Make the most of these wonderful professional development opportunities, and begin planning your proposal now.

Full information here

BES (Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis) Programme

BES is a collaborative knowledge building strategy designed to strengthen the evidence base that informs education policy and practice in New Zealand. NZEI supports this Ministry of Education programme which is designed to be a catalyst for systemic improvement and sustainable development in education.

Education Counts BES Programme (www.educationcounts.govt.nz)

Courses:

Teacher Refresher Courses

The Teachers' Refresher Course Committee (TRCC) , funded by MOE, supported by NZEI, PPTA and TEU to offer professional development 'for teachers by teachers' with subsidised travel.
Some courses on offer in 2012 include: Growing Middle Leader Capability, Get the Groove - E Kori, Ngā Toi i Roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa.

Principals' Kit

NZEI Te Riu Roa's Principals' Kit offers tools to help deal with issues that arise regularly for principals. Whether your query relates to your role as a professional leader or manager and employer of staff, this Kit can provide guidance.

The New Zealand Curriculum

The New Zealand Curriculum 2007-2011 is the culmination of several years work with input from a wide range of education sector groups, and has the potential to change the face of education for the 21st century.

Central to the Curriculum are values, enterprise, sustainable environments, key competencies, international languages, core literacy and numeracy, and the use of new technologies. It still addresses subject disciplines but moves towards these being delivered through inquiry-based processes. It also reinserts the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Connected Curriculum (NZEI video resource)

MOE on the New Zealand Curriculum (www.minedu.govt.nz)