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- We’re updating the Education Council Rules that were developed last year, to make sure they’re consistent with some recent changes, including the launch of the Code of Professional Responsibility and changes to the Education Act.
- We’ve been interviewed by various newspapers, news sites and radio stations recently asking questions about teacher supply and Teacher Education Refresh (TER). Curiously, none of our input seems to make the final cut.
- We make the assumption that everyone knows what we mean when we say “the teaching profession”, but we haven’t really had a professional body for teachers in New Zealand before to professionalise teaching and make that concept a reality.
- The Swahili proverb “Asiye funzwa na mamae hufunzwa na ulimwengu” is recognisable, after translation, both across Africa – where there are many similar sayings – and the world.
- As the agency primarily concerned with raising the status of the teaching profession we would like any future government to address this fundamental question: how do we properly recognise the positive influence our profession has in creating curi
- I have been reflecting on the fact that 2016 was the bicentenary of the first school in New Zealand as the end of the year approaches. I imagine that first school in the Bay of Islands when it opened back in August 1816.
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You might be surprised to find the person who said that wasn’t a teacher or indeed a union member.
“It appears, therefore, that of all secular professions, teaching is the most profoundly important…” “of all these professions teaching is the worse paid.”
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Traffic on the education information highway moves at speed and we need to merge like a zip. Digital teaching and learning has long been part of modern education.
Dr Graham Stoop, chief executive of the Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, outlines the Council’s position on the Government’s announcement on Communities of Online Learning.
- We are working on some new projects to support and champion teachers, and raise the status of our profession. These are important for the future of teaching. We invite you to help shape that future.
- We recently celebrated our first anniversary.