Election 2017 - Party Policies - Education - Secondary Education
27th May 17, 9:49am
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- Supports teaching te reo Māori to every New Zealand child and is committing to create a comprehensive plan to achieve it.
- Oppose the publication of league tables which rank schools on academic achievement.
- Oppose the system of National Standards that was introduced in 2010, and remove the requirement for schools to report against them.
- Support the continued implementation of the National Curriculum and reinstate the advisory service to advise on its implementation. Give real weight to maintaining a broad curriculum (including into the senior school).
- Work with teacher organisations to develop an assessment model or models that allow tracking of student progress against national data; to be used to inform further teaching and learning in partnership with students and their families.
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- Abolish national standards and work with experts and stakeholders to develop a new system that better acknowledges child progress and focuses on the key competencies.
- Scrap the current approach of measuring the success of schools by the number of students achieving national standards or NCEA, and will work with teachers, principals, parents, tertiary institutions and the Education Review Office (ERO) to develop more effective ways of evaluating the performance of schools.
- Provide all State and State Integrated schools that opt-in an additional $150 per student per year in exchange for their agreement not to ask for parental donations.
- Work with the secondary teaching profession to assess how subject-specific professional networks can be revitalised and better supported.
- Create a School Leavers’ Toolkit to equip school leavers with vital life skills including learning to drive and getting a licence, having key workplace competencies, having financial literacy and budgeting skill, knowing their democratic rights and responsibilities.
- Read more here and here.
- Introduce financial literacy classes and savings programmes.
- Introduce mental health counsellors in all high schools.
- Increase the number of Teach NZ scholarships for Māori medium teachers who are teaching STEM subjects, te reo Māori, Māori history and culture.
- Remove fees on NCEA exams so all students are able to receive their qualifications regardless of the whānau financial position.
- Establish driver licence classes at secondary schools and provide access to identity documents through expanding the ‘Passport to Life’ programme.
- Read more here and here.
- Investing a record $10.8 billion a year into early childhood, primary, and secondary school education.
- Ensuring more students are achieving NCEA Level 2 – in 2014 the proportion of 18-year-olds with NCEA Level 2, or an equivalent qualification, reached 81.2 per cent, up from 74.3 per cent in 2011 and on track for our target of 85 per cent by 2017.
- Providing parents with better information through National Standards so they know how well their child is doing at school.
- Supporting more schools to offer Asian languages, to reflect New Zealand’s ongoing relationship with that region of the world.
- Establish Digital Internships and Digital Academies, to give year 12 and 13 students practical, work-based learning opportunities that are a springboard into the IT sector.
- Read more here and here.
- Strengthen School Entry tools and practices to better identify the specific support each student needs to attain their academic best.
- Rework the PACT tool to ensure it is an educational tool for the sector and not a monitoring tool for the government.
- Establish an early intervention staffing component for identified new entrants at risk in literacy and numeracy within initial priority being U1 to U3 schools.
- Re-establish funding support alongside national professional development for the roll-out of the Te Kotahitanga initiative for all schools.
- Immediately review funding models supporting Alternative Schools and the establishment of Teen Parent Units.
- Read more here.
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