Online or onsite education: how do you choose?
There are so many reasons for choosing e-learning. You can study when and where you choose, thereby slotting it in around commitments of work and home. There is no cost attached to opening a...
The battle of the lunchbox
There’s a battle going on that won’t be on the news tonight, yet mums and dad around the world know it all too well. I’m talking, of course, about the battle of the lunchbox.
Every...
Getting on top of our big bullying problem
It started as a regular Tuesday at school for 15-year-old Sophia, but by 11.40am everything had changed. During maths a giggling classmate thrust a list at her, ‘Stuff We Hate About Sophia and Dylan’....
Learning life skills in school time prepares students for the real world
Writing CVs, applying for mortgages and enrolling to vote are all important life skills but most people have to learn how to do them on their own.
However, students will now be able to learn...
Inclusive practice benefits all learners
Since the beginning of 2019, Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto (a name gifted by Ngāi Tahu to Beckenham School) has been developing a pilot project in partnership with the Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour...
The Incredible Years Autism programme in action
The Incredible Years Autism programme (IYA) is a Ministry of Education social wellbeing initiative that focuses on key adults (caregivers and whānau, teachers/kaiako) who support children on the autism spectrum.
The IYA programme was developed...
Media alert: How schools and other educational institutions can combat cyberbullying
More than 90 per cent of Australian teenagers own a smartphone 1 and even 67 per cent of primary-school-aged children own their own screen-based, mobile device ,2 With such pervasive use of technology in schools, it’s no...
Opinion: The perfect, constructed, mental-health storm for our young people.
A positive future is an anchor for all young people. Doubt, anxiety and addictions create cycles that are very hard to break and adults and politically oriented interest groups are superb at exploiting children...
Bee study supports differentiated learning
In 2016 an apiscope – an observational beehive – was installed at the school. The Apiscope Buzz project, led by Associate Professor Tracy Riley from Massey’s Institute of Education and Distinguished Professor Anne Noble...
Mandatory anti-bullying call to break NZ’s horrific record in schools
Two independent watchdogs have launched a campaign to make all schools record every case of bullying and adopt anti-bullying moves that have been proven to work.
Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft and new Race Relations Commissioner...
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