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Call for new way to staff schools – on need not numbers
Secondary principals and teachers are calling on the Minister of Education to introduce a new way of staffing secondary schools that is based on student need, rather than student numbers.
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Secondary teachers call for end to academic streaming
Secondary teachers are calling for an end to academic streaming by 2030 because of the educational harm it is causing to Māori and Pasifika students.
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An end to streaming on secondary teachers' conference agenda
Adopting a policy on an end to streaming in schools is on the agenda of PPTA Te Wehengarua annual conference in Wellington this week.
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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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Secondary teachers welcome investment package but....
The Government’s announcement that it will provide funding for additional teaching and tutoring and more Te Kura summer school places, to help the students worst affected by COVID to catch up on or re-engage with learning, is welcome, says Melanie Webber, PPTA Te Wehengarua President.
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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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PPTA News: the Magazine
The personal price of school cyber security measures
Keeping schools cyber-resilient and secure increasingly involves blurring the line between teachers’ work and home lives
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Tū Toa as warriors
Stand strong was the theme of the recent PPTA Te Wehengarua Pasifika Fono
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