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Learning, becoming, being: The Journey from student teacher to full teacher registration.
Get PDFThis research aims to investigate the journey of student teachers as they complete their programme of study and begin their careers in the teaching profession. There is little documented evidence of what, if any, impact an initial teacher education programme can have on teachers as they move through the profession – from student to newly qualified teacher to fully certificated teacher. This project will explore this relationship and how graduates call on the knowledge acquired in their initial teacher education qualification to inform their practice as teachers. The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand is currently undertaking a project examining Future Focussed Initial Teacher Education this project will complement this work as well as the Ministry of Education's Draft Strategic Plan for Early Learning. The aims of both of these pieces of work are to provide quality learning outcomes for all children and effective teaching strategies. This project will explore these aims and the relationship between an initial teacher education programme.
The research is a longitudinal study with three phases. The first phase investigated graduates perceptions of preparedness to teach and as they enter the workforce how their field-based initial teacher education training has contributed to this. The next two phases will follow the newly qualified teachers as the transverse the induction and mentoring towards full certification. In these two phases of this research the participants will become teacher researchers.
This presentation reports on the findings of the first phase which included a survey and semi-structured interview
Transforming the "sage-on-the-stage": a student-centered approach to learning mathematics
Get PDFThe transition from secondary to tertiary-level mathematics is perhaps the most difficult of all STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects for learners. A main reason for this is the phobia many learners have developed from their previous math-related courses. Other factors include the diversity of student population based on age, ethnicity, work experience, and learners’ personal responsibilities. Tertiary institutes are moving towards approaches to facilitate positive learning experience through shared leadership between learner and facilitator. This presentation will describe the implementation and preliminary findings of our efforts to ease this transition by using this shared leadership approach in two mathematics courses taken by prospective Engineering (Level 3 Certificate) and Information Technology (Level 6 Degree) students. In both our courses, this was done by giving learners the independence to choose on how, when and where learning will occur. Preliminary results suggest a small improvement in class performance but a high level of student satisfaction with this approach. With further refinement of this approach it is hoped to improve retention and completion rates for these courses
Whakaari / White Island a digital audio/visual presentation exhibited as part of Fissure - Auckland Festival of Photography 2019.
No full textMark Purdom, Paul Nelson, and Kent Macpherson collaborate on an audio-visual work titled Whakaari/White Island, which pays homage to the majesty of the active volcano off the coast of New Zealand's, North Island. The piece is a study of the physicality and brutality of the place by examining the tiniest of parts in still & moving image and sound.
The work is part of the Fissure theme - Auckland Festival of Photography 2019, shown as a digital presentation
Seeing ghosts, telling ghost stories: Assignment cheating and the nurse educator
Get PDFIn this presentation, preliminary findings from a study investigating nurse educators’ experiences of reading and noticing instances of academic cheating, including ‘ghost-writing’ and intentional copying, are shared. What is it like to be reading assignments and then to come across one in which an apparition appears – visible but not quite in focus, no tangible evidence but a very real experience which stays with the viewer - sometimes haunting them afterward? How can you tackle such an apparition?
Intentional cheating in written assignments is common. In a recent One news investigation, one informant estimated that up to half of international students pay to have assignments written by others. Some students also present work containing deliberately copied text from other students or sources, submitted as their own writing.
Responding to the conference call for ‘People, purpose, practice, place’, this presentation focuses upon the people - nurse educators - noticing the assignments. Early findings from the study indicate a variety of experiences and responses, which may resonate with other academics. This, in turn, is intended to give voice to educators contributing to the continuing discussion regarding the noticing of and response to suspected ghost-writing and intentional copying. The pressure upon academics to eradicate and prevent academic dishonesty is noted by participants as they regard the Ministry of Education’s calls for institutions to do more to prevent cheating
Learning Through Play in New Entrants Classrooms
Get PDFWhat play-based learning looks like in the school sector and how this compares with the philosophy of this approach in early childhood education.
How junior teachers implement the play-based learning approach in their classrooms and how much of the ‘traditional’ approach remains. Also, how the curriculums and pedagogies from the two sectors combined.
What impact the play-based approach has on learners and their transitions – from ECE to junior primary and onwards.
Modelling of firm offer from combined wind and hydro generations
Get PDFThis paper analyses the impact of a firm combined offer by wind and small hydro generators located in the river chain, with a view to address the intermittency of wind generators. Both generations are dispatchable and cleared against their offer prices. They offer a firm, hourly-schedule (WH schedule) for 24 hours ahead of real-time operation to an auction based locational marginal price (LMP) market with other generators offering to meet the system loads. The model network consists of other generators and loads at different buses. The scheduled power is taken off at a predetermined bus, as a load at the bus. This schedule must be met by the wind and hydro combined generations. If necessary, a notional thermal generation is available at a considerable higher price to meet the schedule, at the offtake point.
The objective is to minimise the total supply cost for 24 hours and examine LMPs and constraint-on costs while respecting the given WH schedule, nodal power balance constraint, generation limits, branch flow and other limits. Discussion is based on New Zealand (NZ) Electricity Market rules, where generators are self-committed into the market. Three scenarios are studied and the results presented
Information accountability in a non-profit organisation
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the extent of information disclosed by a nonprofit organisation to the stakeholders of customers, donors, employees, and volunteers. Design/methodology/approach – A structured questionnaire was provided to the stakeholders of a non-profit organisation. The responses were disaggregated by stakeholder group and information type and then analysed. Findings – Stakeholder groups generally get less information than they consider important, but are satisfied with the information they receive. The research results also show that employees give less importance to strategic information, receive less strategic information, and are less satisfied with strategic information than other forms of information. Organisation wide initiatives did not flow into the organisation subsidiary. Research limitations/implications – The findings contrast with many contemporary assumptions that stakeholders are heterogeneous seeking different information. Further investigations are required to determine the reason why accountability mechanisms are not present in non-profit subsidiaries
Using personal development plans to encourage and track students' future-focussed skills development.
Get PDFThis was a 'demo corner' workshop presented at the International Design Factory Week, attended by 22 institutions within the Design Factory Global Network. The workshop presented an update on longitudinal research focussed on students' perceptions of their skills development through a project-based co-creation module, and through the use of personal development plans. The presentation also reported on findings from a survey from the global network of Design Factories, investigating approaches to individual student development within collaborative project-based learning
The Cacophony Project on Maungatautari
Get PDFThe Cacophony Project has arrived at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari and has been making regular audio recordings at one of the high points in the sanctuary since October 2018. The project aims to greatly improve the ability to eliminate pest predators throughout New Zealand and monitor the effects on bird life that this brings. It is well known that eliminating the last few pests using traditional techniques is difficult. The Cacophony Project envisages that this can be overcome by using lures such as sound and light to attract the last of these pests to one of numerous locations where they can be automatically identified using thermal cameras and artificial intelligence before beginning killed in a safe and humane manner
