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Teacher educators meet

TEU’s newly formed teacher education network has set as its first task responding to the Teachers Council consultation document on the requirements and approval processes for initial teacher education...

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Submission on the Education Workforce Advisory Group report "A vision for the...

Submission of the Tertiary Education Union On the Education Workforce Advisory Group report “A vision for the teaching profession” 6th August 2010 For further information please contact: Jo Scott...

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Student teachers should be supervised by registered teachers

A new Teachers Council requirement that anyone supervising a student teacher must themselves be a registered teacher should bring an end to universities pressuring staff without practicing certificates...

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Teachers Council says only registered teachers to supervise students

Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 38 The New Zealand Teachers Council today released new approval, review and monitoring processes and requirements for initial teacher education programmes. These will apply to...

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Charter schools an unpleasant surprise

TEU’s national teacher education representative Brian Marsh is surprised the government intends to experiment with charter schools. “If we don’t have strong evidence that charter schools provide better...

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University of Auckland pushes Teach First

Educators are critical of a plan by the University of Auckland and Teach First NZ to fast track 20 graduates into classrooms after just six weeks of teacher-specific training. The minister of education...

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Teachers Council review means changes for teacher education

The minister of education Hekia Parata is promising a shakeup of the New Zealand Teachers Council, which would also affect initial teacher education providers, following the release of an independent...

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Government to remove teachers from Teachers Council

The government does not just want to remove staff voices from university and wānanga councils, it also plans to remove school and early childhood teachers from their national professional body, the...

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New early childhood qualification with no practicum

NZTC is launching a new early childhood qualification that students can complete entirely online with no practical teaching requirements.

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