Kate Gainsford, principal of Aotea College and Chair of the Secondary Principals’ Council. told the PPTA Te Wehengarua Annual Conference last week that the current staffing formula, developed 80 years ago, fails as a resourcing model in a modern school system. “The formula is not based on the actual needs of schools. For example, schools ...
At the recent PPTA Te Wehengarua annual conference delegates, representing 20,000 secondary teachers around the motu, acknowledged the historic and present harm caused to rangatahi Māori and Pasifika students through the practice of streaming and will advocate for more resourcing to enable schools to move away from streaming by 2030. “Research shows that streaming creates and ...
“Research is increasingly finding that streaming in schools is educationally harmful particularly for Māori and Pasifika students, lowering expectations of them and denying them opportunities given to other rangatahi,” says Melanie Webber, President of PPTA Te Wehengarua. The conference paper recommends that PPTA advocate for the removal of streaming by 2030. Streaming is one of ...
PPTA is aware that there are possibly large numbers of teachers who have difficulty gaining access to a full practising certificate because they cannot meet the requirement for recent satisfactory teaching experience. Recent satisfactory teaching experience is defined in the Teaching Council registration policy as being “at least two years uninterrupted teaching in the last ...
“COVID has taken a huge toll on rangatahi, particularly those who, for a variety of reasons, haven’t been able to keep engaged with their learning through such hugely disruptive times. More funding for supports to help these young people re-engage and get the skills and qualifications they need is absolutely the right thing to do. ...
At the Provisionally Certificated Teachers’ Conference, held in Wellington in July, Haley sat down with PPTA Te Wehengarua advisory officer Susan Haugh and talked to her about her experiences, and how she was finding the conference. I applied for the job at Pāpāmoa College that I’m in now, it was the only job I applied ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is such a fan of Manurewa High School’s healthy lunch programme that she popped back for seconds recently. Sara Blackburn, the school’s Hospitality and Catering teacher, says during a visit to the school last year the Prime Minister wanted to see how the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy Lunches Programme was ...
A recent announcement from Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti that we are going to recruit 700 teachers from overseas had all the optimism of a classroom teacher at the start of the year. While recruiting from overseas while we train our own sounds like a great strategy in principle, there are significant issues. The teacher ...
“The intention behind this initiative is great, but the way these positions have been allocated unfortunately adds to the inequities among schools in Aotearoa New Zealand.” The LSC roles were introduced in 2020 to improve schools’ response to the one in five learners who have learning support needs. The role is designed to add capacity ...
PPTA Te Wehengarua and Ministry of Education STCA negotiatiors met kanohi ki te kanohi for the first time in late September. PPTA Te Wehengarua has received – and rejected – an offer from the Ministry of Education for settling the Community Education Collective Agreement (CECA), which would include coverage of the Out of Hours Music ...