CORE Achieve- Training available for NZ schools

CORE Achieve - online professional learning courses begin in Term 2

Are you looking for online professional learning that is:
Affordable, flexible, accessible, engaging and future-focused?


Check out what CORE is offering and register online.

Courses include:

• Using wikis effectively with your students
• Blogging for teachers
• Collaborative curriculum design
• e-portfolios
• Digital and cyber citizenship
• Enhancing learning using digital technologies
• Communicating with social media
• Principles and practices of online teaching
• Raising student achievement in literacy through e-learning

Our courses provide quality professional development and support using a blended online learning approach. They are designed to:

Develop innovative teaching and learning programmes, based on effective practice and evidence

• Support teacher inquiry into classroom practice
• Promote school/centre-based curriculum and assessment design and implementation
• Build a professional learning culture of sustained learning
• Supported by webinars, forums and social networking software

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Emerging Leaders' Symposium 2011

Nga mihi,
Some of you have seen the article in this month's Interface magazine about the 2011 Emerging Leaders' Symposium, but here is more information. It's an 'unconference' for emerging leaders in education; please consider either registering yourself or passing it on to the young guns in your school. It promises to be quite an exciting and inspiring event.

Did you know?

• 10,000 of New Zealand's 50,000 teachers are nearing retirement age.
• 50% of newly-qualified teachers leave the profession within the first 5 years.
  

We need to foster emerging leaders in education. We need to give them a voice and support them to develop a vision for the future of education, because soon that future will be in their hands. To this end, a group of emerging leaders have convened a two-day symposium in Auckland on 28th and 29th April 2011. Emerging leaders are invited to attend this 'unconference' to prepare a vision for the future of education in New Zealand-Aotearoa. This vision will be presented to Karen Sewell on the second day of the symposium.


Useful Links:
Emerging Leaders' on Facebook page


Thanks Mark for the info.
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Where to begin with thinking about e-portfolios

E-portfolios have been bandied around for years amongst educators. Some schools are doing it well some, not so much.
As the academic year begins Ewan McIntosh shares in his ‘EdTalk’ about the import role e-portfolios have and the potential for expanding learning many are missing out on.

There are many platforms available for e-portfolios. Let us know what works, or doesn’t, at your school by leaving a comment.
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What is an Eportfolio?

According to guidelines highlighted byHeyMilly they are an electronic records of  students progress and achievement.

Parental involvement is to be heightened as many of the systems have a parent/ student login for you to access your child’s information via the internet any time of day or night.

Communication with parents and transpancy in teaching should be paramount in a school’s mind and e-portfolios are a way of addressing this for parents. 

But e-portfolios for students, though talked about for a long time is still very much in its infancy and we as parents should take the opportunity to be active in discussion on this issue wit hour kid’s school. Successful implementation of e-portfolios in a school is contingent upon parental engagement so go in and ask.

If you’re kid is yet to start school, make a question you ask....”What e-portfolio system do you have and how can I, as a parent, access that information?”

If you send your kids back in a couple of weeks time ask the classteacher about the priority of e-portfolios this year and ask for information around the security and precautions the school takes to protect students as well as help them celebrate their achievements.

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