The events described in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” spans around forty years of U.S. and world history. The lyrics include references to people, places and events from four decades.
Great Class activity - ice breaker - group work initiator and more...
The PPTA says that National and ACT’s coalition agreement revealed a hidden agenda for public education yesterday with the announcement of a charter school experiment in South Auckland and East Christchurch.
Charter schools are an import from the United States (a country that consistently ranks below New Zealand on global educational comparisons) and are characterised by being free from the normal regulations that the state puts in place to protect students and teachers. This is the same thinking that permitted low safety standards at the Pike River mine and lax building standards that permitted the construction of hundreds of leaky buildings.
Charter schools are able to work outside some of the state education system’s regulations and choose their own curricula, qualifications and teachers’ working conditions. They receive full public funding but as well may supplement their income by philanthropy. More information on main page. Subscribers access below.
PPTA: Internal moderation using Optional Teacher Selected Evidence 06 December 2011
Changes to external moderation for 2012 will decrease workload
PPTA has heard that some members are worried that the changes to external moderation announced by the minister at PPTA’s annual conference and by NZQA in
SecQual 2011/055 will increase rather than reduce teachers’ work. PPTA is confident that this will not be the case.
Random sample of 500 students will replace the current process
The random sample of 500 students nationally across the three levels of NCEA, all of whose work will be collected for moderation, will replace the current process whereby each school has to randomly sample eight students for a range of standards across all subjects, and then all subjects have to collect some of this work.
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Any comments or queries, email PPTA at ncea@ppta.org.nz.
NZ Images - Foxton, Petone and Memorial to Te Rauparaha at Otaki. photo images by SchoolhistoryNZ (Subscribers Only).
