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Questions by parents surrounding issues perceived with National Standards
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These come from the consultation feedback report for the Ministry of Education on National Standards. May help you to think a little bit more yourself on issues that other parents want to know. Some…
Tagged: report, national_standards, questions
Started this discussion. Last reply by Di Palfrey Nov 9.
Labelling our children
Many children are in classrooms that have standadised tests, afterall this can be a useful tool for our teachers when used appropriately. Have you noticed how they know exactly where they rank in rel…
Tagged: gap, low_socio_economic, national_standards, Labels
Started Oct 29
Parents Against Labels
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Hi all Very interested to read all of your posts and responses to National Standards. I have included the article I have written for newspapers. T o contribute to the debate on national standards,…
Tagged: national_standards, Labels
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rikki Sheterline Nov 5.
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The Three Rs”: Reduce, Regiment, and Ruin our public education system
It wasn’t much fun waking up this morning to the news that the Ministry of Education will no longer be providing advice to primary schools on arts, science, technology, or physical education – nothing in fact, except the “three Rs”: reading, writing, and ‘rit… Continue
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 10:01pm — 2 Comments
National does not believe science should be taught in school
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/10/22/1245ce3b9622
Primary schools have been told that art, PE and science are to take a back seat to the three Rs.
The Ministry of Education has told schools they wil… Continue
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 10:00pm —
Have you got research that supports National Standards?
Have been looking for weeks now and I am still to find something that convinces me that my gut feelings and opinions and research from many, many people are wrong and national Standards are a good thing for our precious children.
"http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223
'Pr… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 8:00pm —
Minister defends education standards ahead of announcement
The following comments have been made by Tolley:
'Teachers will need to know how a student reached an answer, rather than simply whether the answer was correct.'
'It was about "digging into" how a student learnt.'
I am appalled as National Standards is about quantitative reporting s… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 7:45pm —
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- At 11:14pm on November 2, 2009,
Peter Allen said…
- Happy to keep in touch Dellis. This debate is going to carry for some time I expect. One downside of this focus on 'standards' is the narrowing of the curriculum that wil result - I've seen the practical expression of this in the changes the MoE is making to professinoal development contracts which will see learning area advisory support for teachers in primary schools replaced by a focus on numeracy and literacy advisory support - this seems to overlook the fact that literacy and numeracy skills are most readily acquired by developing those skills in a range of learning area contexts - science, social studies,technology etc
- At 8:55pm on November 1, 2009,
Dellis Hunt said…
- Awesom Derek
Thanks for your support
- At 8:49pm on November 1, 2009,
Derek Wenmoth said… - Hi Dellis
I'm happy for you to create links to my blog :-)
- At 9:32am on October 30, 2009,
Peter Allen said…
- Morning Dellis
My interest is professional as a former principal now working as a professional develop ment advisor mostly in leadership and management. I was involved in the development of the NCEA so am aware of the fraught nature of introducing a new assessment system based on standards. I'm not opposed to defining standards for attainment per se because I believe it sharpens teachers' understanding of curriculum achievement objectives and assists in promoting professional discussion amongst teachers about how to assess and moderate studnet attainment against the standards.
My problem with national standards is the ways in which the information generated from the application of the standards will be used, especially as a means of measuring school and teacher performance and then used as a stick to beat teachers around the head.
Inspite of all the promises from MoE and politicians about not using the information for this prupose the experience of the US and the UK suggests otherwise - the temptatiuon will be just too great for politicians and the media to use the achievment information as a way of ranking teachers and schools.
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