“I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they can achieve to the best of their ability and gain skills and qualifications that will support them into further study and employment,” Ms Stanford says.
“Children and young people at school today are New Zealand’s future. Receiving a world-leading education not only sets children up for success, it sets New Zealand up for success – economically and socially.
“But our declining achievement statistics clearly show that the school system is not delivering for all students. To turn this around, we need to make fundamental changes, including getting back to basics.”
Our Government’s six education priorities:
“But our declining achievement statistics clearly show that the school system is not delivering for all students. To turn this around, we need to make fundamental changes, including getting back to basics.”
Our Government’s six education priorities:
- Clearer curriculum: Establishing a knowledge-rich curriculum grounded in the science of learning.
- Better approach to literacy and numeracy: Implementing evidence-based instruction in early literacy and mathematics.
- Smarter assessment and reporting: Implementing consistent modes of monitoring student progress and achievement.
- Improved teacher training: Developing the workforce of the future, including leadership development pathways.
- Stronger learning support: Targeting effective learning support interventions for students with additional needs.
- Greater use of data: Using data and evidence to drive consistent improvement in achievement.
“We have set an ambitious target to reach 80 per cent of Year 8 students at or above the expected curriculum level for their age in reading, writing and maths by December 2030.
“Since becoming the Minister, I have met with several Māori education representatives and organisations. Expectations for strengthened educational outcomes and achievement for tamariki and rangatahi Māori is a shared bottom line.
“With that in mind, it is my intention to work collaboratively with Māori education representatives and organisations to develop a Māori education work programme. Initially, the focus will be on enhancing achievement, attendance, engagement.
“For parents, these priorities will give them confidence their children are receiving quality education that will set them up for future success in further study or employment.
“Ultimately this will result in an education system where all students are getting quality learning and skills to succeed no matter where they live, our teachers are supported with a detailed national curriculum parents are aware of their child’s progress, and evidence-based supports and interventions are provided where they are needed.
Over the coming months I will be introducing work programmes in each of these key areas, the first of which will be announced later this week.”
Erica Stanford is the Minister of Education and Minister of Immigration. She has been the National MP for East Coast Bays since the 2017 election. This article was first published HERE
7 comments:
Well and good. But it is what the Minister does not say that stands out in her article.
Nothing about the intense Maorification of NZ Education - due to the license taken by the Ministry of Education and without any permission from citizens.
A referendum which affirms the equality of all citizens would render such license illegal.
A curriculum centred on the Te Ao world vision of has no international value - but, of course, it does ensure that students will be brainwashed to accept Maori superiority by 2040.
Wake up NZ.
Shortly after the election, I sent Erica Stanford a document that gave irrefutable evidence of the cultural dysfunction in the Ministry of Education. Perhaps because it pervades the entire educational culture, I can see how it couldn't be used as ammunition to attack the opposition, and received no reply - not even an acknowledgement.
Yet she leaves the top ten managers alone. They were responsible for the devastation of a generation, they will push back and frustrate any changes.
Until some of them are removed it will be all platitudes and same old system under the covers.
The apalling Labour "refreshed maths curriculum" that was forwarded to NZCPR on April 30 by Prof Robert MacCulloch clearly has not got to the new Education Minister Erica Stanford because she cites greater emphasis on Maori education including Maths and Numeracy.
The temerity of Labour to even allow the plethora of mistakes and bullshit to be printed is good reason to remove all ethnically separated maths and numeracy and focus on only one curriculum.
We only have the one banking , weights, distances , speeds, lengths and heights to learn.
NZ doees not need separate curriculum, tuition cost and responsibility for Maori.
It all sounds so lovely and aspirational.
We have a mountain of opposition in not just the Ministry , but the teacher unions, the NZCER, Progressive-Marxist academia and their associated teachers' colleges.
Once a teacher's classroom door is closed they will do and always have done exactly what they want. They will lie about what they teach and pay lip service to dictates.
For that reason. I have always advocated parents and the general public are well educated into what or even how teaching in a primary classroom should be. Parents can then knowledgeably act in some way to help bring about change by eg discussing deficiencies with other parents.
An example would be to write the desired primary syllabi, in layman's terminology, which is readily available to parents to use to check whether the content is being covered.
I have just read the primary maths syllabus/curriculum and even as a graduate and tutor for decades, found some sections incomprehensible besides being far too brief.
Also in about the 1980s before primary maths was thoroughly trashed by new fangled craziness, there was a homework work book, parents bought and this also gave parents an idea on whether the syllabus was being taught effectively and thoroughly. It was published by a private firm, Addison, and was cheap to buy with also a fully worked answer book with steps.
This is another example of what is needed.
I have thought in recent times why is there not an internet site or TV channel where a teacher teaches what should being taught for that year, in that term ,week and day. So if you have a 7 year old in term 2; you can go and see/ view what they should have learnt in reading, writing and maths that day. If they are not being taught that then questions can be asked.
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