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Documents
PPTA News: the Magazine
Celebrating The Correspondence School’s centenary
The struggle for equity of access to education is at the heart of a new book charting 100 years of Te Kura – The Correspondence School
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PPTA News: the Magazine
A teacher’s tips for managing stress
Building rest into your cycle of work is the main lesson learnt by one participant in the THRIVE resilience building programme
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Te Petihana Reo Māori celebrations
A petition delivered to Parliament half a century ago was the catalyst for a range of school-based initiatives for the revitalisation of Te Reo Māori
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Catering for ākonga by ākonga
Manurewa High School’s in-house healthy lunch programme has whet the Prime Minister’s appetite
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PPTA News: the Magazine
It’s time to fix the secondary teacher shortage
The teacher shortages that have been plaguing secondary schools for more than a decade need effective, meaningful solutions now
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Negotiations in full swing
Bargaining is now under way for all of the collective agreements that PPTA Te Wehengarua negotiates. Here is an account of where the various agreement negotiations are at
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Employment woes - renewing your practising certificate
Shoddy employment practices seem to be making it difficult for increasing numbers of teachers to qualify for a full practising certificate.
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Kicking off your career in COVID era
Haley Corney is a second year Design and Visual Communication teacher at Pāpāmoa College in the Western Bay of Plenty region. Hayley is one of the “COVID generation” of beginning teachers, who had only one practicum, and then has spent her teaching career in and out of lockdowns and battling the Omicron wave.
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Charting the course of feminist history
A new book on the history of the New Zealand Working Women’s Charter is reviewed from two perspectives - by Maryan Street who was actively involved in its adoption by PPTA, and by Jacinta Grice and Bernie Lee who are now carrying the torch.
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