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Le Fevre trained as a teacher in Palmerston North at the same time as undertaking a Bachelor of Education at Massey University. [1] Le Fevre says that during her teacher training, she was different to her peers as her high school experience had not been a good one, and she wanted to change the system.
RPL is known by many names in different countries. It is APL (Accreditation of Prior Learning), CCC (Crediting Current Competence), or APEL (Accrediting Prior Experiential Learning) in the UK, RPL in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and PLAR (Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition) in Canada (although different jurisdictions within Canada use RPL and RCC (Recognition of Current ...
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]
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 ...
Against the backdrop of issues raised in the 1970s, [3] [4]: p.20 [5] [6] New Zealand education underwent major reforms in the 1980s. There was said to be challenges to the consensus of the time that the state was beneficent and efficient by both a "radical left-wing critique that highlighted the continuing inequalities of education" and the emergence of a 'New Right' perspective that ...
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]
In 1989 the School Publications Branch merged with the Audio and Visual Production units of the former Department of Education to form a new group called Learning Media, part of New Zealand's new Ministry of Education, which became a Crown-owned company in 1993 and a state-owned enterprise in 2005.
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBE (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, pianist and world figure in the teaching of children. As an educator she developed and applied concepts of organic, child-based learning to the teaching of reading and writing, and vocabulary techniques, still used today.