Secondary Education Gazette stories
These articles are published in the New Zealand Education Gazette. Each link will take you through to the story on the Education Gazette website.
Service academies are transforming student lives (published 7/11/2011)
A recent Education Review Office study of service academies is confirming what many students, teachers, family and whanau already know – service academies are transforming lives socially, academically and physically.
Careers mentors deal with tyranny of distance (published 25/9/2011)
Taipa Area School is using distance learning technology to engage students in a science and engineering careers education programme.
Trades academies hold promise for Pasifika (published 19/9/2011)
The Youth Guarantee is a suite of initiatives aimed at lifting achievement for all students, particularly Māori, Pasifika and special education students.
Benchmark boost for career education (published 5/9/2011)
Careers New Zealand will launch the country’s first career education benchmarks for secondary schools in term 4.
Trades academies (published 8/8/2011)
Trades Academy students forge career pathways with support from secondary and tertiary sectors.
Professional Development - Opportunities for secondary teachers at NZQA (published 8/8/2011)
Many educationalists have furthered their teaching careers and professional development by working at NZQA.
Special education career incentive for high-school students (25/7/2011)
In an exciting Ministry of Education initiative, school students interested in careers in speech language therapy or sign language interpreting can now apply for scholarships.
Stage Challenge (published 7/6/2011)
Performance events such as Stage Challenge and Smokefreerockquest allow students to showcase their creative strengths, and learn a lot at the same time.
Making stuff makes learning real (published 9/5/11)
Students love technology, especially when it leads to making useful stuff. They enjoy it even more when the skills they get, and the stuff they make, has real-world relevance.
Putting assessment in context (published 26/4/11)
Draft level 2 assessment resources will be published next month to support teachers with designing their year 12 teaching and learning programmes.
Cluster PD in level 1 maths and stats (published 26/4/11)
Schools and teachers in Auckland and Northland have been getting together in departments and local clusters to work with the realigned NCEA Level 1 standards in mathematics and statistics.
Pathways to the future: Career education in schools (published 11/4/11)
Secondary schools advisor and professional development facilitator Adie Graham is a passionate advocate of learning and career pathway guidance in schools.
Learning science in context (published 28/3/11)
Tomorrow’s scientists choose what they will study today.
Learning journey on eel trail (published 28/3/11)
Kuranui College students in the Wairarapa took a close look at one of the important taonga of their region recently – the Raumahunga River.
Schools of the future (published 14/3/11)
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori O Whangaroa and Ormiston Senior College in Auckland lead the way in environmental design, with five-star ratings from the Green Building Council.
Lifting literacy learning in secondary school classrooms (published 14/3/11)
Students require specific literacy knowledge, skills and attitudes in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the curriculum.
Educating for Enterprise (published 28/2/11)
Year 10 students from Waimea College in Nelson complete their school year with a cross-curricular project.
Click for support - online guides for senior secondary (published 28/2/11)
Teachers from around the country have been working with the Ministry writing senior secondary guides for their learning areas and subjects.
Filling up the kete with opportunities (published 28/2/11)
Whangarei Girls’ High School has developed an academic coaching programme to help build student pathways to university. (Scroll to bottom of the page.)
Pulling down silos enhances inquiry learning (published 31/1/11)
Teachers at Christchurch’s Riccarton High School believe schools have a tendency to ‘silo’ into learning areas. They decided to push themselves outside their own teaching boundaries to encourage their students to take more control of their own learning.
Schools make vital contribution by trialling assessment resources (published 6/12/10)
A cooperative and coalface approach is paving the way for better use and understanding of NCEA.
Senior students seek flexibility (published 22/11/10)
New curriculum, revised standards – now is a great time to review senior secondary teaching programmes.
The challenge of change in senior secondary technology (published 6/9/10)
Next year, the focus of change in technology falls on the senior school, including new achievement standards for Year 11 students. But changes to senior programmes start in the junior school.
Background to a new future (published 9/8/10)
Academic and trades training options are thriving in the mutually supportive learning environment being created at Hauraki Plains College.
Cutting the cloth (published 26/7/10)
Teachers around the country are working hard to ‘gear up’ their students for scholarship success, and the number of technology students gaining scholarships has soared over the past three years.
Lacing up (published 14/6/10)
A sports expo is a college’s first step in reigniting a culture of sports participation.
Impact learning (published 31/5/10)
Innovations in curriculum delivery give senior secondary students more ownership of their learning.
A taste of reality (published 31/5/10)
Financial capability has become a regular part of the social sciences curriculum at a secondary school.
Great gains made (published 17/5/10)
Staff at a secondary school reflect on the gains made during involvement in Te Kotahitanga, an initiative to lift Māori student achievement.
The right way (published 3/5/10)
A secondary school renews its supports for students and is rewarded with a rise in achievement.
Business and enterprise, the business of learning (published 22/2/10)
Business studies will be offered with level 1 NCEA achievement standard qualifications for the first time this year.
From Onehunga to New York (published 22/2/10)
Onehunga High's Business School has taken the new business achievement standards on board.
Enterprising minds (published 22/2/10)
For a school that doesn’t specifically offer business studies, Opotiki College in the Bay of Plenty has enjoyed plenty of success in the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme National Awards in recent years.
Mixing food, technology and good ideas (published 22/2/10)
Two food technology students from Hastings Girls’ High School have sold the exclusive option to purchase the intellectual property on a product they developed as part of the Enterprising Technology programme.
NCEA trial needs teachers (published 22/2/10)
Secondary schools can get involved in the trialling of the latest NCEA standards and assessment resources.
Secondary literacy focus (published 8/2/10)
A teacher professional development initiative embedded within the direction of The New Zealand Curriculum supports secondary teachers to improve student literacy across the curriculum.
Lifting achievement (published 8/2/10)
Teachers were keen to be involved when a Tauranga secondary school entered the Secondary Literacy Project.
Ready and willing (published 8/2/10)
An area school reflects on its participation in the Secondary Literacy Project.
Published on: 01 May 2011