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Behaving badly
Forget about Allan Peachey behaving badly, that's just Allan Peachey being Allan Peachey. Let us return to the way the government is behaving badly; behaving very badly, indeed, in respect to the enforced standardised testing policy.... more
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National: Smoke and mirrors? Part 2
Bringing politics and the bureaucracies even deeper into classrooms threatens to cast a chill over the system - a threat that can only be diminished if we do our bit to oppose it.... more
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National: Smoke and mirrors? Part 1
John Key will only make minor changes to Labour's economic settings, but will try to get away with a cheap pass in some portfolios, education in particular, to be able to fund tax cuts at the end of each election cycle.... more
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Reciprocal reading
'There are strong findings in reciprocal reading. I was surprised that older teachers know about this but young do not. One gain is that it frees the teacher up to work with another group.' (Contributor at a NZEI sponsored PIRLS symposium.)... more
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... and the rabbit bobs past!
The boys carrying out the spring balance investigation rush in the door and inform 'everybody' that they've 'discovered something'. Their faces are flushed with excitement. They invite a couple of children out to the corridor to have a look.... more
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An evening with Lockwood
Into the hall were crammed over 300 people, they overflowed outside. Also outside was a cluster of police - a phenomenon which has become Lockwood's only original contribution to education administration.... more
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Elwyn today
I told the students it is the diary of a magnificent New Zealand teacher, and that I would introduce them to the person at the end of the readings ... They madly tried to to guess who it was, asking, 'Come on, give us a clue!', 'Is the person still alive?' Did ...... more
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Picot now
However, I do come down heavily on a current ministry scheme, EHSAS, calling it a typical Picot product, and an indication of the curriculum command-control structure the ministry has set out to establish.... more
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Listener article on reading
A consideration of the 'Listener' article 'Seizing the day' about the use of 'Toe by Toe' a UK reading programme for struggling readers (July 5-11, 2008).... more
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Computers: Battle lines
The post-modern philosophy which was sparked by the new technology, and which she espouses, sets the battle lines over whether the new technology is going to be controlled to support enlightened pedagogy and humanising goals of education, or left free to... more
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