Professional readings
Jumplinks:
Primary
Ako - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of ako in arts classrooms. Ako involves reciprocal shared learning in the classroom and beyond.
Manaakitanga - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of manaakitanga in arts classrooms. Mannaakitanga is about values of integrity trust sincerity and equity. Through manaakitanga the teacher and fellow students recognise and affirm the identity of each student in open and trusting relationships.
Mantle of the Expert
The site will be of relevance to teachers who might want to subscribe for news updates and information about cluster groups and workshops in the approach.
Mantle of the Expert Articles
This site has many interesting papers on Drama and the Mantle of the Expert. All articles are available as PDF files.
Performing Arts Facilities in Schools: Year 1-8 Music Facilities
This section of the Performing Arts Facilities in Schools website discusses equipment and spaces needed for music teaching in years 1-8. Includes a look at performance spaces facilities that make teaching music easier for generalist teachers and specialist teaching spaces.
SOUNZ - The Centre for New Zealand Music
Created in New Zealand heard around the world. SOUNZ the Centre for New Zealand Music is a music information centre promoting the music of New Zealand. SOUNZ has the largest and most accessible collection of New Zealand music in the world which is now online. SOUNZ provides a range of services projects and activities including music teaching resources such as the SOUNZwrite guides for NCEA and Ears Wide Open for upper primary and junior secondary.
SOUNZ Community
For all those who make NZ music ‘happen’ there is a special area on this website which allows composers and contributors to share new works products and events. It also allows contributors to update their profiles and contact details online. To access this part of the site a user name and login are required.
SOUNZ Resources
SOUNZ offers secure e-commerce from this site allowing the purchase of musical scores recordings and publications that are available from the Centre. As well as selling many unpublished works by NZ composers through licence SOUNZ endeavours to stock all publications – cds scores music resources and books – that relate to their music.
Success for Boys
This New Zealand Ministry of Education website is intended to help teachers build on existing practice to create opportunities for all boys to succeed.
Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners
Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners is a new resource explaining the progression of the competencies teachers need to develop so they can help Māori learners achieve educationally as Māori. Tātaiako has been developed to help all educators think about what it takes to successfully teach Māori learners. It provides a guide to the development of cultural competence for teachers themselves for their employers and for Initial Teacher Education providers and providers of on-going teacher professional development.
General
Are you a Visual thinker?
Changing Assessment : How four simple words can solve education’s biggest problem
A TED talk by Mark Barnes discussing approaches to assessment and how to include the student voice in a ‘beautiful conversation’.
Do you have a wandering mind?
How Colour Blindness Might Affect an Art Student
New Zealanders and the arts 2014 - Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2014
Creative New Zealand have recently published their findings after a three-year study looking at our attendance, attitudes and participation in the Arts. This three-yearly research began in 2005 and was repeated in 2008, 2011 and 2014. It delivers on-going information to the arts sector about New Zealanders’ level of involvement in, and attitudes towards, the arts.
Teacher Toolkit - 5 Minute Wellbeing Plan
Devised for 'guilty teachers' to manage work/life balance.
Teacher Toolkit - 5 Miunute Workload Plan
Visual Thinking Improves Writing
Encouraging writing through 'life journals' comic strips and drawing.
Why do we keep creative people out of leadership roles?
Creatives as leaders - short article by David Burkus.
Why Med Schools are Requiring Art Classes
An article about the relationship between the arts, clinical observation and maintaining empathy in the medical profession.