NZQA Contract roles for teachers
NZQA are currently advertising a number of contract vacancies These are short-term paid, part-time positions and include NCEA markers & verifiers Materials Critiquers Subject matter checkers Exam Panel leaders contract moderators in mathematics, NCEA levels 1-4....
July: what’s been in the news?
A summary of various things shared since the last update NCEA change updates continued UPDATE: subject specific resources for the 2 Level 1 internals were shared by MOE on the 23 July : see the details The Ministry of Education have released the initial...
Maths SIG Conference Looking ahead – new curricula, new opportunities
The conveners of the NZARE Mathematics Education SIG are pleased to announce a day conference for sharing of research in mathematics education, scheduled to dovetail with the New Zealand Association of Maths Teachers (NZAMT) Conference in New Plymouth. Monday 11th...
AMA Funding for NZAMT17 in Taranaki – deadline extended
Cheryl Everitt from Waiuku College was the lucky recipient for the first grant to this years NZAMT17 conference. Cheryl won her grant in the HOD day conference prize draw and is gifting it to one of her early career teachers. You too could be a recipient of up to...
Being Proportional
A face to face workshop where we explored the progression of our ākonga becoming proportional across curriculum levels 3 to 5. This workshop was designed for teacher of students in years 5 through to 10 and presented by Marie Hirst and Robyn Headifen. Download...
More about the Numeracy and literacy changes
A key part of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) refresh, is the development of updated strategies for mathematics and literacy, Te Reo Matatini me Pāngarau. The Ministry last week posted background information about this Read: A short 2 pager outlining what the...
This weeks news
AMA online This terms AMAonline took place on Saturday with 217 teachers from across the country registering. Those that joined us for the morning for treated to a fantastic array of ideas. If you registered and were called away then don't worry the recordings are...
55 days to get ready for Maths Week 2021
Maths Week 2021 Monday 9 August until Friday 13 August. 278 000 students and 6 901 teachers took part in Maths Week in 2020 Maths Week is written for all students from Year 1 through to Year 11 and is available free, on-line, to teachers, parents and students. 2020...
#AMAonline Term 2 2021, June 19
Thank you to our wonderful presenters and hosts who made this AMAonline session happen. Resources from the sessions are linked under the abstracts on this page and all together in this document. Recordings are processed and posted below. They are also shared on the...
Census at School: home learning, social media, movies
The 2021 Census at school database is open for analysis and some interesting findings are emerging. Seven out of ten New Zealand school students say that learning at home was the same or better during lockdown compared to learning in school normally. The...