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This article critiques a recent professional development course for history teachers that explored how students could use memorials and heritage sites to engage with the concept of significance and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2011_2_026.pdf | Content type: Set article
Starting teaching in a new country and a new culture is like being a beginning teacher again. If you come from a Confucian culture where teachers are automatically respected, the New Zealand...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Constructive developmental theory examines and describes the way people grow and change over the course of their lives.
The author looks at New Zealand schools and discusses:
the special...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The authors argue the case for teachers to engage in and make use of research. Drawing on their experiences as consultants working in English schools they show how the "research-engaged" school can...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers engaging in “learning talk” analyse, critique and challenge their current teaching practices to find and/or create more effective ways of teaching. Using three New Zealand studies, this...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article examines the changes that 12 primary, intermediate and secondary schools made to the way they planned and organised professional development, and evaluates the experience of four of the...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers can find themselves isolated in the busy life of schools. This climate is not conducive to effective appraisal and professional growth. Here are some specific strategies that school leaders...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A matrix for professional development that shows how to do a needs analysis and survey.
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The proposal that professional development can empower teachers as curriculum leaders and thus enable them to transform curriculum practice is based on the authors' experiences at Australian National...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When we asked which topic subscribers would most like to see research about, appraisal topped the list. This article looks at (a) appraisal for firing - helps administrators only, and...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article