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Kia ora,

"E hara tāku toa i te toa takitahi ēngari he toa takitini."

Welcome to the website of the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association / Te Wehengarua (PPTA), the professional association representing teachers and principals in secondary and area schools.

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Schools Plus resourcing to be watched very closely

PPTA media release 19 April 2008

Education Minister Chris Carter has assured teachers the Government’s Schools Plus education plan will be properly resourced – A promise the PPTA certainly plans to hold him to.

Mr Carter was a keynote speaker this morning, on the final day of the PPTA’s 2008 professional conference - Secondary teaching on the move.

He spoke about the Schools Plus concept, which would see students engaged in secondary school, tertiary education or some form of workplace training until they were 18 years old, and addressed the question that is on every teacher’s mind – “Who’s going to pay for it?”  Read more ...

Forward thinking teachers impress international academic

PPTA media release 18 April 2008

When the radio was first invented it took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. Television took 13 years and the personal computer four.
It took six hours for the iPhone to reach 50 million people.

This is the speed of the technological development today’s teachers are being asked to keep up with - and one of the reasons why we need to change the way we look at today’s classrooms, says international academic, Dr Brent Davis.

Dr Davis has shown what the PPTA has known for a long time – our teachers know what they are talking about when it comes to looking to the future.  Read more ...

Teachers shouldn’t be blamed for wider social problems

PPTA media release 18 April 2008

Over-emphasis on the quality of teaching ignores the wider social causes of underachievement, University of Waikato professor of Education Dr Martin Thrupp says.  Read more ...


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New on this site

 

14th PPTA Māori Teachers Conference 2008 

 

Pathways to Success Principals' study tour, programme and registration form online

 

NCEA assessment, regional seminars - log-in 

 

New sample Timetabling policies  

 

Log-in to vote: Does electronic attendance reporting (eAR) reduce teacher workload? 

 

Collective News, April issue out now, log-in to read on-line.

 

Study awards - applications close Friday 18 July 2008


Beginning teachers - YANTs network 


 


New Publications & Research

Evaluation of Te Kotahitanga

Best practice behaviour management

School anti-violence toolkit

 

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