Teacher Education – In-service
Professional Development Support for Technology in 2011
The Ministry of Education has appointed Cliff Harwood as the National NCEA Technology Coordinator to support professional development in Technology in 2011. See Cliff's profile…
Cliff is supported by a team of four National Technology Professional Development Facilitators:
- Malcolm Howard (University of Waikato), who provides specialist professional development support within NCEA to teachers in Digital Technology – see profile
- Paul Neveldsen (Team Solutions, University of Auckland), specialist support to Years 7-8 Technology teachers – see profile
- Lesley Pearce (Team Solutions, University of Auckland), specialist support within NCEA to teachers in Resistant Materials, and Design and Visual Communication Technology – see profile
- Cheryl Pym (University of Otago ), specialist support within NCEA to teachers in Food and Textiles Technology – see profile
The team's priorities for 2011 are to:
- to assist Technology advisers to develop a nationally coherent professional development plan that centres on increasing teacher understandings about and competency in delivering quality teaching and learning programmes to students in Technology;
- to embed NCEA Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards as assessment tools in Technology teaching and learning programmes;
- to continue to encourage and support the development of a national professional learning community for Technology;
- to support the continued development of Technology resources for publication on Techlink – www.techlink.org.nz – a website hosted by IPENZ with the support of Ministry of Education funding;
- to ensure teacher awareness of strategies and approaches for Māori and Pasifika students, for students who are speakers of languages other than English, and for students with special education needs; and
- to address the specific literacy and numeracy demands involved in teaching and assessing Technology.
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