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[2] [1] Her thesis, supervised by Deborah Loewenberg Ball, was on the use of video in learning in teacher-training. [3] Le Fevre then joined the faculty of Washington State University , where she continued her interest in using video to improve practice: "I would video myself teaching my education courses and the students would analyse and ...
In August 2009, Tolley, announced a timeline for the implementation of the Standards, [74] and in a letter to Boards of Trustees, principals and teachers at New Zealand schools, said that from 2012 school annual reports would include data showing progress and achievement in relation to the standards. [75]
Alfred Augustus Grace (1867 – 18 March 1942) was a New Zealand teacher, journalist and writer. He was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand on 1867. [1] He wrote literature such as short stories, novels, folklore collections, and other literature that was read in New Zealand, Australia and England.
The New Zealand Women Teachers' Association (NZWTA) was an advocacy group for the rights of teachers that engaged with the Government on a range of issues related to the status, pay scales, working conditions and opportunities for women teachers in the country from 1914 to 1964. Beginning as a number of regional organisations that had begun ...
Clay developed the Reading Recovery a whole language intervention programme, which was adopted by all New Zealand schools in 1983. In 1985, teachers and researchers from Ohio State University brought Reading Recovery to the United States. Reading Recovery is an early intervention for at-risk students in grade one that is designed to close gaps ...
Fanny Irvine-Smith lectured in New Zealand history and Māori culture until 1932. (These subjects were not taught much at this time and so this was quite unique). Irvine-Smith was also the president of the Wellington Teachers College dramatic society. [15] [16] Doreen Blumhardt (b1914), head of the Art Department in the early years. [4]
An award, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is offered annually to enable a New Zealand writer to work at her former home, the Villa Isola Bella. New Zealand's pre-eminent short story competition is named in her honour. [33] Mansfield was the subject of a 1973 BBC miniseries A Picture of Katherine Mansfield, starring Vanessa Redgrave ...
Marie Bell CNZM (née Heron; 19 February 1922 – 3 November 2012) was a New Zealand educationalist, lecturer and teacher who had a career lasting almost three-quarters of a century. Her career was governed by a child-friendly and progressive outlook that she was exposed to at Wellington Teachers' College .