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My perfect PLD world

Anthony Neyland - June 20, 2018

A maths teacher's perspective on cultural relationships and ideal PLD

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TRCC wins new role to support teacher professional development

- June 12, 2018

Information and application details on the Teacher Refresher Course Committee's newly won Contract for National Coordinator of Networks of Expertise

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Some thoughts on researchED Auckland

Tom Haig - June 5, 2018

On the weekend two of us from PPTA national office attended the first researchED conference to be held in New Zealand. A few reflections follow.

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Curriculum wars: coming to Aotearoa?

Tom Haig - April 13, 2018

An unusual alliance, between a radical and polarising academic and a right-wing think tank, may drag New Zealand’s education system into the throes of a debate that’s been raging overseas, but has largely passed us by until now.

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Cucumber vs grapes - behavioural science and teacher pay

Tom Haig - March 8, 2018

The grapes and cucumber experiment is a rare example of behavioural research that has such obvious and wide-ranging implications that it’s crossed over into popular culture.

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Let's bring out the best this year

Jack Boyle - March 6, 2018

A message from PPTA president Jack Boyle

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Supply package – a few drops of water on the parched lawn

Jane Benefield - December 13, 2017

While the package that Hipkins announced this morning as a boost to teacher recruitment will help a bit to address the shortfall of secondary school teachers the length and breadth of the county, it is nowhere near enough.

Issues and organising conference group work 2016

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A parting gift from Parata: what does the new part 1AA of the Education Act mean?

Tom Haig - December 4, 2017

One of the last things the previous government did in education was make some fairly significant changes to the Education Act. Many of the implications of this are yet to sink in.
Possibly the most important of these is the new part 1AA.

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If I were the minister...

Liz Robinson - September 20, 2017

PPTA member and teacher at Albany Senior High School, Paul Stevens, shares what he would do if he were Minister of Education.