Articles for category: Politics
Taupo-nui-a-Tia teachers treated
Imagine coming to school and receiving each day a message from your Board thanking you for what you do accompanied by delectable coffee, chocolate, icecream and other treats? Well, that was the kind of week that staff at Taupo-nui-a-Tia College experienced earlier this year, as Omicron was breaking out all over the motu. Just like ...
Making curriculum connections with mana whenua
The challenges of how to begin engagement with mana whenua for the development of the new Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum was a hot topic at the recent inaugural national Networks of Expertise summit. Les Hoerara, Kaiatakawaenga at Teacher Development Aotearoa (TDA), told the summit participants they needed to think about how they would enable ...
Māori Teachers’ Conference 2022
Wellington’s Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa was host for the first time to the PPTA Te Wehengarua Māori Teachers’ Conference. More than 200 teachers filled the museum, on Wellington’s waterfront, for the 27th hui, appropriately themed ‘Kua tawhiti kē tō haerenga mai, kia kore e haere tonu. You’ve come too far, not to ...
Time to take a breath
In the recent Navigating Leadership Hui for School Leaders, Education Minister Chris Hipkins talked about how somedays it feels like everything is on fire. Speaking to teachers at our conferences over the term break, it sounded like the entire term had been on fire, and that the first person to start promoting “I survived Term ...
PPTA wins call back case
A recent decision handed down in the Employment Court completely vindicates PPTA advice to members about their hours of work and when schools are not open for instruction. The case relates to a dispute that arose in 2012 when the then PPTA Te Wehengarua branch chair at Rodney College claimed actual and reasonable costs for ...
Call for nominations for Komiti Pasifika
PPTA Te Wehengarua recognises the particular needs of Pacific Island teachers and students, and is committed to the promotion of policies and programmes to address their professional, industrial and cultural issues. This work is co-ordinated regionally through local Pasifika networks and Regional Pasifika coordinators and nationally through PPTA’s Komiti Pasifika Nominations are invited for six ...
Education under COVID: Research Project
Tēnā koutou kātoa QPEC is a community organisation committed to quality public education. We have teamed up with education unions to investigate the experiences of teachers and teaching assistants teaching online during Covid lockdown and after. We have designed a survey for all those involved in teaching, as teachers and support staff, during the various ...