Carolyn Stuart, Principal of Tawa Intermediate School, discusses the importance of building quality relationships within her school. She describes five building blocks that are key to creating exciting futures for their learners.
Carolyn Stuart, Principal of Tawa Intermediate School, discusses the importance of building quality relationships within her school. She describes five building blocks that are key to creating exciting futures for their learners.
Carolyn Stuart, Principal of Tawa Intermediate School, discusses the importance of building quality relationships within her school. She describes five building blocks that are key to creating exciting futures for their learners.
Jane Danielson is Deputy Principal at Willowbank School. In this EDtalk from Learning@School 2011, Jane talks about how the school has used social media to engage with the local community. She describes the various ways they use Facebook, such as sending reminders, asking for information and sharing school news, and talks about the positive feedback they have received from their community.
David Anderson, co-director of Hands on Educational Consultancy discusses the key elements of working on adult language. David believes it is crucial that we understand the different forms of adult conversations and discusses inquiry, advocacy, and feedback. He explains the difference between dialogue and discussion.
Indira Neville is a principal at Mulberry Grove School on Great Barrier Island. Two of the most exciting aspects of the New Zealand Curriculum are the possibilities for developing a local school curriculum and the introduction of the key competencies. Mulberry Grove School has grabbed both these possibilities and created a unique vision for teaching and learning at their school with the key competencies at the heart. For Indira she believes that key competencies are kind of like a respectable, pedagogical version of punk rock.
