Seminar for Principals, Senior Leaders, Curriculum Leaders
Cooper McKenzie Limited is proud to present:
Taking the lead ... progressing the New Zealand curricula
Issues, challenges and opportunities
with
Dr Lester Flockton
Riccarton Park Christchurch
Thursday 24 October 2019
10.30 am – 2.30 pm
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear Lester speak in Christchurch in October!
Lester’s seminars include a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to assessing and reporting learning and progress.
The presentation begins by giving an overview of curricular changes, influences and mindsets, leading to explanations of the intended direction of the NZC and how it can be interpreted by individual schools. Important considerations for localisation of the school’s curriculum are addressed along with modelling for developing the design and content of the school’s curriculum. Assessment and reporting are woven into the modelling, with the intention of rationalising the amount and structure of assessment without compromising on quality and professionalism.
This seminar has already been presented at a number of main centres around New Zealand, and the feedback has been consistently positive and highly commendatory. A number of schools have had lead staff attend along with the principal.
Registrations by Friday 11 October 2019 - contact us for registration details
Dr Lester Flockton has worked on many national curriculum and assessment committees and projects throughout his career, including major roles in the development and writing of The New Zealand Curriculum (2007). He has led numerous professional development and learning programmes, made dozens of conference presentations, and held office in various professional organisations. His field of expertise combines teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment, and the leadership, governance and management of schools.
Details of ROVE announced
From https://www.tec.govt.nz/rove/reform-of-vocational-education/
The Minister of Education, Chris Hipkins, announced the Government’s decisions on the Reform of Vocational Education proposals on 1 August 2019. This followed consultation with education providers, employers, industry, learners, iwi and whānau, and communities around the country.
The Government will now take its first steps to create a strong, unified, sustainable system for all vocational education that is fit for the future of work and delivers the skills that learners, employers and communities need to thrive.
The new system will have a stronger focus on employers, delivering the skills they need, providing more support for their employees, and ensuring greater consistency in vocational education across the country. Longer term, this will increase the number of employers who are engaged in vocational education.
Learners will receive more support while they are training, and vocational education that is more relevant to work. They will be able to move more easily between regions and between work-based and provider-based training, and will be able to continue training more easily if their employment situation changes.
Work-integrated learning will become an increasingly important part of the vocational education system, giving people the opportunity and flexibility to earn while they learn and gain an education that is more directly relevant to the changing needs of the workplace.
A unified vocational education system will bring together industry and educators to make sure New Zealand’s workforce is fit for today’s needs and tomorrow’s expectations.
Seven key changesThe Reform of Vocational Education includes seven key changes that will create a unified vocational education system:
- Create Workforce Development Councils: Around four to seven industry-governed bodies, to give industry greater leadership across vocational education.
- Establish Regional Skills Leadership Groups: These would provide advice about the skills needs of their regions to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), workforce development councils, and local vocational education providers.
- Establish Te Taumata Aronui: A group to help ensure that the Reform of Vocational Education reflects the Government’s commitment to Māori Crown partnerships.
- Create a New Zealand Institute of Skills & Technology: A unified, sustainable, public network of regionally accessible vocational education, bringing together the existing 16 ITPs.
- Shift the role of supporting workplace learning from ITOs to providers: The new Institute and other providers would support workplace-based, on-the-job training as well as delivering education and training in provider-based, off-the-job settings, to achieve seamless integration between the settings and to be well connected with the needs of industry.
- Establish Centres of Vocational Excellence: CoVEs will bring together the Institute, other providers, workforce development councils, industry experts, and leading researchers to grow excellent vocational education provision and share high-quality curriculum and programme design across the system.
- Unify the vocational education funding system: A unified funding system will apply to all provider-based and work-integrated education at certificate and diploma qualification levels 3 to 7 (excluding degree study) and all industry training.
Together, these changes aim to create a vocational education system that is ready for a fast-changing future of skills, learning and work. This unified system will:
- Deliver to the unique needs of all learners, including those who have been traditionally under-served, such as Māori, Pacific peoples, and disabled learners, particularly as Māori and Pacific peoples will form a growing part of the working-age population in the future
- Be relevant to the changing needs of employers
- Be collaborative, innovative and sustainable for all regions of New Zealand
- Uphold and enhance Māori Crown partnerships
John made the front page...
John's on the front page of the ODT today.
Check it out:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/nev-school-gets-itself-zone
Seminar for Principals, Senior Leaders, Curriculum Leaders
Cooper McKenzie Limited is proud to present:
Taking the lead ... progressing the New Zealand curricula
Issues, challenges and opportunities
with
Dr Lester Flockton
Distinction Hotel
6 Liverpool Street, Dunedin
Friday 27 July 2018
10.30 am – 2.30 pm
Seminar for Principals, Senior Leaders, Curriculum Leaders
Taking the lead and progressing the New Zealand curricula involves setting a direction that variously connects, reconnects, and disconnects curricular policies and practices of the past and the present, while looking to the future.
The past is recalled by a diminishing few.
The present is all too familiar.
The future is uncertain.
Taking the lead involves giving certainty to direction, but this begs questions of which direction, whose direction, and how that direction is secured.
This seminar addresses key issues and challenges that confront those who would take the lead. It illustrates opportunities available to schools for re-thinking and reshaping curricula, assessment and reporting practices.
Registrations by Friday 6th July 2018 - contact us for registration details
Dr Lester Flockton has worked on many national curriculum and assessment committees and projects throughout his career, including major roles in the development and writing of The New Zealand Curriculum (2007). He has led numerous professional development and learning programmes, made dozens of conference presentations, and held office in various professional organisations. His field of expertise combines teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment, and the leadership, governance and management of schools.
Watch this space
Cooper McKenzie Limited is preparing to announce an upcoming series of seminars regarding the NZ Curriculum in schools.
The seminars will feature insights from a well-known and highly-regarded expert within the sector.
Watch this space!!
Schools, Families and Communities - Survey Findings
John has completed his survey of NZ school principals regarding community involvement, and their views on the relationship between schools, families and communities. Use the links below to access downloads of:
The full Survey Results.
John's Survey Report.
Schools' Relationships with their Community
John is spending Term 4 2010 on Study Leave, and is using the time to investigate schools' relationships with their community. This is an area in which John has a strong interest; he was the driving force behind the implementation of the Valley Project, an initiative in North East Valley Dunedin that aims to bring schools, communities, and helping organisations closer together to make improvements in all areas of the community.
John's study involves a snapshot survey of the current situation in New Zealand regarding schools and their communities, as well as visits to schools that have established strong community relationships.
We will let you know his findings!