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A range of material to support principals and teachers to understand the reading, writing, and mathematics standards, will be available on this site from February 2010. This includes material to be used by principals and lead teachers when leading their school's development.
Topics include:
All principals, boards of trustees, as well as literacy, numeracy, and assessment lead teachers will be provided with opportunities to access information about all aspects of National Standards via seminars, workshops, and/or webinars from November 2009 onwards.
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At least 7000 teachers will be provided with in-depth training and professional development in the use of National Standards in literacy, numeracy, and assessment by experienced facilitators from 2010.
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At least 3000 provisionally registered teachers, overseas trained recruits, or trained teachers returning from parental leave or overseas will be provided with a workshop and seminar programme to bring them up to speed from 2010.
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1200 schools will be offered opportunities to study graduate and/or postgraduate papers in literacy and/or numeracy to improve their content knowledge and understanding of effective teaching from 2010.
For more information see:
23 November 2009 Education Gazette
Literacy online -Tertiary Fees Funding Support: Literacy for Primary and Intermediate Teachers 2010
NZ Maths - Tertiary Fees Funding Support: Mathematics
The existing Ministry leadership programmes will focus on embedding the National Standards in The New Zealand Curriculum. This includes providing first time principals with 18 months professional learning including support to implement the standards. This also includes providing 200 aspiring principals with mentoring and coaching, including support focused on preparing for principalship and taking a leadership role in implementing standards.
Refer to the Educational Leaders website for further information about leadership programmes.
The Assess to Learn professional development programme will provide the participating principals and teachers with further in-depth opportunities to improve their assessment strategies with a particular focus on National Standards in 2010.
Refer to the Assessment Online website for further information about this programme.
1022 teachers of English language learners will be provided with support in using the English Language Learning Progressions to make assessments about their students' progress and achievement. This will be targeted at one lead teacher from each school that has funded English language learners from 2010.
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Available now and being regularly updated on the Assessment Online website:
A self review tool has been developed to support schools to implement National Standards by determining their development needs and priorities.
The Literacy Learning Progressions describe the specific literacy knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students draw on in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the curriculum.
Specific support material for teachers of students for whom English is an additional language will be available from February 2010. This is intended to support teachers making overall teacher judgments about students' progress and achievement in relation to the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP) and the National Standards. Further information will be available online from this website.
Information will be available for parents about what to expect with regard to the National Standards and plain language reporting from the parents section on the Ministry website.
Board view, principal view, and New Zealand Curriculum updates in the Education Gazette will provide regular ongoing updates and guidance for schools.
The Ministry will work with providers to design modifications to student management systems so they can capture overall teacher judgments and be used to generate individual student reports for parents against the standards by June 2010. More information will be available early in the new year.
A monitoring and evaluation study will be undertaken with 100 schools in 2010. The project will complement other information sources about the implementation and outcomes of National Standards, and is one part of a larger monitoring and evaluation framework. Information including the wider evaluation strategy will be published on TKI as it becomes available.
Published on: 23 Nov 2009
