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Research, guides, information and policies published by PPTA Te Wehengarua
Real equity funding: resourcing schools to support at risk learners (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. The current resourcing review is an opportunity to improve the way our schools are funded. We know that we have a challenge in New Zealand with…
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Guidelines to assist boards of trustees to meet their good employer obligations to Maori
Updated guidelines developed as a result of the Memorandum agreed between New Zealand School Trustees Association (NZSTA) PPTA Te Wehengarua to assist boards of trustees (“boards”) to meet their…
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School staffing: PPTA key points - SSSG Report (2012)
PPTA key points from the Report of the Secondary Schools' Staffing Group
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School staffing: PPTA key proposals - SSSG Report (2012)
PPTA key points from the Report of the Secondary Schools' Staffing Group
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School Staffing SSSG Report 2012
As part of the Terms of Settlement for the Secondary Teachers' Collective .Agreement 2011-2013, the Post Primary Teachers' Association and the Ministry of Education agreed that more work was desirable…
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Class size poster: How dense do you want them (2008)
Poster from Class Size campaign 2008
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Parents' perspectives of secondary school teaching - Windshift research (2007)
One of the key elements of this research was to explore the underlying expectations of teachers. What exactly are the qualities of an effective teacher?
... Given their underlying beliefs…
... Given their underlying beliefs…
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Extra staffing by school MAC23 (2012)
Extra staffing by school under MAC 23 calculation for curriculum staffing (based on 2011 confirmed year 9-13 roll).
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Class size - Letter from Prof John-ONeill to Minister of Education (2012)
The effects of class size on teaching and learning (Questions for oral answer, question 12, 8 February 2012)
... I have done you the courtesy of looking once more at Professor…
... I have done you the courtesy of looking once more at Professor…
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National Education Leaders Partnership (NELP) - School resourcing principles
The National Education Leaders Partnership includes: NZSTA (New Zealand School Trustees Association) NZPTA (parents), NZPF (Primary and intermediate school principals), NZSPC (secondary and area school principals), SPANZ (secondary and area…
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Guidelines for the Appointment of Area School Principals to the Community Leadership role
Area School Principals Collective Agreement (ASPCA) Community Leadership Role Guidelines
The establishment of the role follows the advice of the Sector Working Party established as part of the Investing in Educational…
The establishment of the role follows the advice of the Sector Working Party established as part of the Investing in Educational…
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Quality teaching for excellence and equity (2012)
Report from PPTA's Quality Teaching Taskforce.
The focus here on the quality of teaching rather than the quality of teachers is deliberate. The phrase "teacher quality" personalises and fixes the terms…
The focus here on the quality of teaching rather than the quality of teachers is deliberate. The phrase "teacher quality" personalises and fixes the terms…
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Behaviour Guidelines (2014)
These guidelines focus on a systems approach to behaviour management - identifying when they are effective and how they support teachers and students.
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Safety in schools toolkit (2019)
Practical resources for dealing with and preventing bullying, harassment and assault
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Behaviour Positive Learning and all that Jazz (2015)
A paper presented to the APBS 12th International Conference on Positive Behaviour Support, March 11-14, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts. This paper seeks to map the roots of Positive Behaviour for Learning…
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Education Change Management Toolkit (2016)
This kit is about effective education change at the school level.
This toolkit is to assist schools and branches in implementing effective change for improvement, following the identified best practices…
This toolkit is to assist schools and branches in implementing effective change for improvement, following the identified best practices…
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Ministerial Taskforce on Secondary Teacher Remuneration (2003)
The PPTA and the Secretary for Education agreed, in the Terms of Settlement of the Secondary Teachers' Collective Agreement 2002-2004 (STCA), to a Ministerial Taskforce to examine and report…
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Ministerial Taskforce on Secondary Teacher Remuneration Appendices 2003
Appendices to the Ministerial taskforce on secondary teacher remuneration - includes terms of reference; list of members; documents tabled; list of submitters; executive summary of survey.
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Fast track teacher education: A review of the research literature (2012)
This review of the literature was commissioned by PPTA Te Wehengarua as a means of informing the decision-making of the Association and its members about the Teach For All (TFA)…
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Agreement on future employment processes involving Teach First NZ (2016)
Media Statement - Agreement on future employment processes involving the Teach First NZ programme (18 March 2016)
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Teach First NZ - Update to members February 2014
It would be fair to say, however, that PPTA has not been kept as well-informed by the university as we would like to be as the scheme has rolled out.…
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Employment Relations Authority decision - Teach First NZ (2015)
[2015] NZERA-Wellington-116 If there are vacancies in secondary schools which involve the instruction of students (teaching positions),…
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Employment Authority update for PPTA Branches in Auckland and Northland (2015)
Update to branches on the outcome of a recent Employment Relations Authority case regarding what is generally known as the Teach First teacher education programme, offered by Auckland University and…
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Executive summary - Who achieves what in secondary schooling?
(July 2013) Executive summary. Liz Gordon and Brian Easton.
During 2012, the Minister of Education stated on a number of occasions that one in five students were failing in school.…
During 2012, the Minister of Education stated on a number of occasions that one in five students were failing in school.…
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Who achieves what in secondary schooling? A conceptual and empirical analysis (Liz Gordon, Brian Easton)
(July 2013) During 2012, the Minister of Education stated on a number of occasions that one in five students were failing in school. PPTA Te Wehengarua commissioned "Who achieves what…
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