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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"New Zealand schools"”.
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Professional Learning and Development after the Active Learning Phase: Case Studies of New Zealand Schools
… Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that schools implement effective processes to evaluate the impact(s) of professional learning and development on teachers, as well as the resultant effects on students’ learning outcomes. However, there remains a notable gap in comprehensive evidence …
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Spiritual intelligence and imagination in New Zealand students
Teachers in New Zealand schools are called on by documents such as The Zealand Curriculum Framework (2007) and Gifted and Talented Education in New Zealand Schools (2004) to address the moral and spiritual development of both gifted and mainstream students. This study explores a key issue: the role …
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Colouring in the White Spaces: Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools
… mainstream, or what I have called, whitestream New Zealand schools — that white background is the norm. When we talk about multiculturalism and diversity what we are really referring to is the colour of the children, or their difference from that white norm, and how they don’t fit perfectly …
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Barriers and enablers for school leaders implementing PB4L Tier 2 with fidelity in New Zealand secondary schools : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education, Educational Administration and Leadership Subject at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand
… for Learning (PB4L) Tier 2 with fidelity in New Zealand secondary schools. PB4L was introduced to New Zealand schools in 2010. It provides a framework that schools use to guide the implementation of evidence-based practice with the goal of reducing problem behaviour and providing a positive …
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“It takes a village to raise a child”: Pastoral Care for Māori and Pasifika secondary school students
… is a paucity of research on pastoral care in New Zealand schools, yet the extant literature endorses the value of pastoral care for secondary students. For Māori and Pasifika students, pastoral care may enable the blending of Māori/Pasifika models of health/wellbeing with socio-ecological …
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Enabling mathematical minds: how social class, ethnicity, and gender influence mathematics learning in New Zealand secondary schools
… disparities between European and Asian heritage New Zealanders on the one hand, and indigenous Māori and Pacific Islanders on the other, have been a national education policy priority for some time. Such is the degree of focus on ethnic inequalities that very little attention is devoted to …
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`Osi kia Velenga: An educational quest for academic success in literacy for Tongan students in New Zealand
… within the middle and upper levels of primary schools in New Zealand. It examined the hypothesis that explicit vocabulary instruction, using an educational intervention, can positively impact on Tongan students’ reading comprehension and contribute to the improvement of their reading …
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International languages in New Zealand secondary schools and universities: Coherence, consistency and transparency
… languages other than English in secondary schools and, to a more limited extent, in universities in New Zealand. The Introduction summarizes the aims and objectives of the research and outlines the research methods. Chapter 1 introduces the context in which language teaching and learning in …
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Statutory intervention: perceptions of New Zealand primary school principals and their experiences
Each year, a small number of New Zealand schools are identified as underperforming and require external leadership assistance, usually from the Ministry of Education. This support is implemented through a statutory intervention mechanism aimed to address underpinning issues such as governance and …
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Exploring the beliefs and practices of first year teachers of literacy in New Zealand primary schools
… practices during their first year of teaching in New Zealand primary classrooms. The participants had all completed the same three-year Bachelor of Teaching degree and secured positions in a diverse range of New Zealand schools. They were fully responsible for the literacy learning of their …
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Biosecurity for the New Zealand Education Curriculum
… the potential of biosecurity education in New Zealand schools. This study used qualitative data collected over 2 years from three different studies to understand the need for biosecurity education. Semi-structured interviews, focus group interviews and classroom observations were used to …
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Hearing their voices: The perceptions of children and adults about learning in health education
… about their health and health education in schools. Also heard in this study were the voices of adults (parents and teachers of the sample of children). Six research questions were explored related to the health knowledge children already had about health and health issues; where children …
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Agency as dynamic and rhizomatic: An exploration of learner identities in two secondary classrooms
… disrupt dominant discourses. As outlined in the New Zealand Curriculum, New Zealand schools are charged with the task of strengthening students’ key competencies (Ministry of Education, 2007a) to lay a foundation for lifelong learning. Learner agency is embedded in a dispositional view of these …
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Cultural diversity and identity discourses in the design and implementation of the New Zealand curriculum key competencies: a Bernsteinian analysis
… of the key competencies in the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum, and how students’ cultural diversity and identities were considered as part of this. Data for this case study were collected from three sources: interviews with key policy officials and academic consultants six years after …