Teaching Your Children Through Work and Play.
We have learned so much recently about the importance of play for young children that many families may overlook how meaningful work can also nurture development. Young children flourish when allowed to enter the world of real work that surrounds them - from picking up toys or feeding the cat to grating carrots for salad. In the company of family or o . . .
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Understanding NCEA: A relatively short and very useful guide for secondary school students and their parents
By Irena Madjar and Elizabeth McKinley
You need a book to understand NCEA?
If you are a Year 9 or10 student, or a parent new to NCEA, this book is for you. It explains in plain language just how NCEA works ? everything from standards, levels and credits to subject choice. It includes sto . . .
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SAY ?NO? TO BOTTOM-GAMES
A guide for Parents, Educators and Caregivers about
how to talk about and protect children
from sexual abuse.
Adults who are willing to tackle the topic of sexual abuse and want to learn how to discuss this with their children will find this book invaluable.
SAY ?NO? TO BOTTOM-GAMES is made up of two sections.
Sectio . . .
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20 Hours ECE information for parents
From 1 July 2010 all three, four and five-year old children are able to go to early childhood education (ECE) services for six hours a day, 20 hours a week at no charge. 20 Hours ECE applies to all teacher-led ECE services, k?hanga reo and Playcentres.
To get this support, your child must be enrolled in and going to an ECE service offering 20 Hours ECE. You w . . .
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Youth intervention services
Most young people in New Zealand are thriving. They get the guidance, support and opportunities they need to prepare them for life as an adult.
However, for some young people, this is not the case. To support these young men and women to reach their potential and contribute fully in the social, economic and cultural life of New Zealand, we need to make sure . . .
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The importance of selecting high quality childcare has been recognised as impacting on the success a child can have when they start school. Parents often have difficulty in knowing which aspects are important to look at. In August 2010 ERO (Education Review Office) looked at Quality in Early Childhood Services. They found that change and development in the sector in recent yea . . .
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16/2/2009 Maraetai?s Chris Shirley is passionate about our marine history ? and it?s a passion he wants to help pass on to future generations. Chris featured in the PC Times about 18 months ago when he was involved in a bid to purchase the historic schooner, Te Aroha, for use as a floating classroom. Chris, a Teacher,Sailing instructor and Commercial Master Mariner, is deputy chairman of . . .
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The Montessori classroom
By Mary Anne Winslow
It's undoubtedly true that man has all the qualities that are needed to develop himself from the very moment of birth. Each and every one of us possesses within ourselves a unique psyche. Unlike animals, we do not have hereditary instincts that are passed down through generations, such that a kitten, puppy or a tiger cub behaves similarly to its pare . . .
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Paul and Gail Dennison
January 23, 2004
Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K) is a distinct and dynamic branch of education, one founded on the principle that movement is the basis for all learning. The Latin root word educare (?to educate?) comes from educere (?to draw out?), and kinesis means movement. In Edu-K we say that movement patterns influence function, while function likewise influenc . . .
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Choosing a School for a Five Year Old
Revised edition 2002
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How to use this publication
There are five sections, the content of which is described below.
Choosing a School: Step by Step
Follow these steps to make a list of possible schools for your child. Then use the Information for parents sec . . .
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Starting a new school can be scary. Those concerned with mental health in schools can play important prevention and therapeutic roles by helping a school establish a welcoming program and ways to provide ongoing social support.
Special attention must be directed at providing Office Staff with training and resources so they can create a welcoming and supportive atmosphere to everyone who enter . . .
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Speech to the 1998 Planning Hui of the Adult Reading and Learning Assistance (ARLA) Federation of Aotearoa New Zealand: Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland, Saturday 20 June. Published in Nga Kete Koreo, the Journal of Literacy Aotearoa, July, 1999.
During his second voyage of discovery, James Cook had two boats which arranged to meet in Queen Charlotte Sound. They did not. After waiting a . . .
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Effective, no-drug antidepressant trialled
Depression and anxiety sufferers on treatment waiting lists will trial a self-help cognitive therapy programme.
The programme has been proven overseas to decrease depression and, in some cases, even obviate the need for further therapy.
The head of Australasia?s only university-based CT training unit, Massey University?s Associate Professor Paul . . .
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When couples separate, adults who regard themselves as reasonable in most situations become vitriolic in their exchanges with each other, too hurt to be grown up and too helpless to do anything but blame the other for the agonies they feel.
Children find themselves exposed to this conflict, and research is absolutely clear that such exposure is destructive to them.
Because children of all . . .
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The Benefits of Establishing High Expectations for Positive Behaviours in a Classroom Learning Community, are identified in the following research summmaries:
A safe and caring learning environment maximizes learning.
Research also shows that clearly articulated expectations for positive behaviours in a learning community provide emotional safety and the relaxed alertness that create the hig . . .
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Ask any teacher and they will say that swearing seems to have increased. Words that used to be forbidden have become mainstream language. Children learn from their parents, siblings, peers and television. One Principal at a primary school admitted that he sometimes "lets out a 4 letter word" in the privacy of his home but will not accept it in his school regardless of the intent. Ask any child . . .
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Freedom is a core, but often misunderstood, Montessori principle. Shannon Helfrich, an AMI trainer of trainers, defined freedom as the capacity to pause in the face of certain stimuli and make a choice, to the exclusion of all other choices.
How do our children go about making that choice? They can?t make it without prior knowledge and experience. They gain that knowledge and experience fro . . .
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This is a letter written by Gail Dennison for us to give to parents who have questions about Brain Gym and its origins. I think it is an outstanding letter and want to share it with all of you:
Brain Gym(R) is a learning-readiness program used in schools, homes, and businesses in more than 80 countries around the world. This movement-based program was founded on the research of educators . . .
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In N.Z. educational equity concern has traditionally been focused on provision for girls and Maori. It is a mandated requirement since 1989 that all schools analysis and compare the academic performance of girls and Maori against that of the whole school co hort.
In the last two years there has been a gradual - indeed hesitant, articulation of the plight of boys in education. Boys are vastly . . .
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Kia-Kaha (Maori word for "stand strong") was established in New Zealand by the Telecom Corporation and the New Zealand Police Education Officers. New Zealanders have created guidelines and charters that urge schools to acknowledge their "moral obligation to reduce bullying." Hundreds of Police Education Officers are trained to implement the Kia-Kaha program in schools. They encourage the entire sc . . .
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