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PPTA Annual Conference papers for 2012. Includes: School charges – Rights, obligations, limits;
Managing the paradigm shift: Secondary schooling and change;
Secondary Teacher Staffing – Another casualty of a lack of coherent long term planning;
There is always a reasonable alternative – The Post Primary Teachers’ Association’s economic model;
A level playing field? The importance of local funding in financing secondary schools to meet ...;
Constitutional amendments - Annual conference 2012.
PPTA Annual Conference papers for 2011. Includes: There Is Always A Reasonable Alternative (TIAARA); not TINA (There Is No Alternative);
Supporting teachers to do their jobs: There’s got to be a better way;
Nau te rourou, Naku te rourou . . . Educative mentoring;
Constitutional Amendment: Branches where a school operates on separate sites in two or more regions;
Class Size – The Struggle Continues;
Accelerated Change in the Senior Secondary School.
PPTA Annual Conference papers for 2010. Includes: NCEA Internal Assessment: A harder job than professional marking!;
Constitutional amendments;
The Teachers Council: Government patsy or voice of the profession?;
Building on excellence: How to make a great schooling system even better;
Private profiteering or Public Private Partnership;
No silver bullet: An update on issues relating to behaviour and engagement in secondary schools;
'Mind your language' Our responsibility to protect and promote Pacific Islands languages in NZ;
From islands to archipelagos: developing secondary school leadership.
Papers to be presented to the 2009 Annual Conference for discussion, debate and decision-making. Include: 80-15-5-percent What we know; what they need… ; Connected secondary schools; Duty outside timetabled hours; Housing affordability; Integration or disintegration?; Mentoring for secondary teachers.
Papers presented to the 2008 Annual Conference for discussion, debate and decision-making.
Includes NCEA; Tomorrow's schools; Needs based staffing; Valuing beginning teachers; Housing affordability; Duty; Disruptive and anti-social behaviour in secondary schools; Constitutional amendments; PPTA annual report 2007-2008.
Papers presented to the 2006 Annual Conference for discussion, debate and decision-making. Addition of conference papers still to be completed.






