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  Homework Haven For Years 7 -13 students  120 Riccarton Road, Christchurch Ph. 03 423-1573 - www.thelearneronline.com Christchurch’s newest high school tuition centre with a difference, located right in the middle of Riccarton, across from the Westfield Mall. Convenient location, convenient times and convenient price The Learner’s Homework Haven is an afterschool tuition centre offering quality and individualised tuition in all high school subjects with a focus on the English modes: writing, read..

  What a start to the educational year – now 3 weeks into the school term, universities and polys are back, and the furore around Christchurch school closures and merges is ongoing. It certainly has been busy.  As it has been for the Learner Ltd, with hosting  Dr Branton Shearer from the US, author and created of the MIDAS Multiple Intelligences profiles (available online here), having a Stand at ICOT13 (International Conference of Thinking) in Wellington, hosting our first monthly public presentation… And opening our ..

  Why are Teachers Enthusiastic about MI Around the World? (After Nearly 30 Years...) Branton Shearer   sbranton@kent.edu  I'm always a little surprised when I get another email requesting information about MI and my MIDAS assessment from some country far from my home in Ohio, USA. Last week it was from a research team at a university in Slovenia wanting to investigate the MI profiles of high performing leaders. In the past 10 years more than a dozen graduate students in English language instruction in Iran have..

  Hekia – What are you doing? Salisbury School closure declared unlawful “The Minister has not listened to parents, current or former students, educational professionals and industry experts, so we are hoping she will listen to Justice Dobson,” McDonnell says. “Through this process, we have lost total confidence in Hekia Parata. “Justice Dobson is very critical of the Minister’s judgement and the Ministry’s processes,” she says.“They need to take a hard look at themselves, their level of common-sense and ..

Approximately 3 % of Year 13 students in NZ high schools, studying subjects at level 3, are awarded Scholarships. Scholarships provide recognition and monetary reward to top students in their last year of schooling. Scholarship exams enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject The Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence 2011, went to Jade Leung the top NCEA chemistry, geography, painting, physics, science, statistics, biology, English and Spanish sc..

  Jacqui Duncan is principal of Cashmere Primary. Views expressed are her personal opinion. See http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/8057437/Lets-talk-before-teachers-strike We have one of the best education systems in the world; it allows the public school system to flourish and allows families and communities to have input into their local school. New Zealand schools work very well for 80 per cent of students, but 20 per cent of students fail to flourish. Research tells us that the best teaching model aims for ..

With all the attention on schools at the moment especially Canterbury closures and the education issues of National Standards (Focusing on just 3 areas of reading, writing and maths) and the Ministries goal to raise L2 NCEA achievement to 85%,........... Questions need to be asked;  Is this the direction we want our education system to head. What about the students that don’t fit in or don’t meet these narrowing educational requirements?   What is school for, if not to support, nurture and  guide studen..

15 October 2012 Assess - Assess - Assess – test - test - test  It’s the last term and semester of the year for students around the country and they’re back in class preparing (well at least thinking about) exams! Its back-to-school and parents all over the country breathe a sigh of relief. University and poly’s will start there end of year exams in October and high schools will start NCEA on 12 November, link to – Exam timetable http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/qualifications-and-standards/qualifications/ncea/exam-..

14 September 2012 -  Something’s wrong with Hekia’s PR spin team -    Yesterday’s release on the future of Christchurch schools by Hekia Parata NZ Minister of Education could have been a winner. After so much devastation, fear and difficulties in Christchurch schools over the past 2 years, the way the Ministry announced it, was diabolical.  Like wildfire through a dry savannah the news spread throughout Christchurch of school closures, mergers of the biggest high schools and teacher /principal job loss..

10-14 September 2012 A new report was released by The NZ Ministry of Education; Education Review Office (ERO) last week highlighting the “most pressing” issues for New Zealand’s education system. There were three main issues relating to how well schools are focusing on providing an education that addresses the needs of students. 1. The need to shift the focus to student-centred learning. 2.  The need to knowledgeably implement a responsive and rich curriculum 3.  The need to use assessment information..