Principals

Professional Development

Study Awards and Sabbaticals:

Ministry of Education funded Study Awards, Sabbaticals and Study Support Grants are now open for applications. Make the most of these wonderful professional development opportunities.

Full information here

Training Videos:

Principals' pay - a short history

Have you ever wondered why principal's pay structure is like it is, or how various parts of it came to be bolted on? This video will help you understand how it evolved.

Courses:

Teacher Refresher Courses

The Teachers' Refresher Course Committee (TRCC) was set up education visionary Dr Clarence Beeby back in in 1946. The aim is to :

Improve the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand education.
Provide quality professional development for all New Zealand educators.
Deliver national courses ‘for teachers by teachers’.
Take account of research, and model best practice in education, in course planning.

Teachers Refresher Course Committee (www.trcc.org.nz)

Links and Resources:

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)

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)