Useful Information
Drawing the Future
If you are Principal of a Primary or Intermediate school, the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) would like you to take part in Drawing the Future.
Drawing the Future asks students to draw what they think they’d like to do when they grow up, and answer a few simple questions.
It’s an easy 30-minute exercise and a fun way to get children thinking about their futures.
Why Drawing the Future?
- The drawings will help the TEC understand children’s career aspirations and what factors influence these.
- The findings will be used to develop a programme called Inspiring the Future that shows tamariki all the career pathways that exist, helping to broaden aspirations for all our young people.
- Schools that take part will be amongst the first to receive a Drawing the Future research report.
- Every class that submits five or more drawings goes in a draw to win one of 10 art supply packs!
Look out for your Drawing the Future Pack
Every Primary and Intermediate School will receive a Drawing the Future Pack on Monday 14October. Each pack contains 30 drawing templates. Teachers will be able to request more packs from 14 October from careers.govt.nz.
Questions? Contact andrea.howey@tec.govt.nz
National Survey of Primary and Intermediate Schools
NZCER would like to hear from the principals, teachers, trustees, and parents who have received their surveys. To give everyone more time to respond, the survey closing date has been extended to Friday 25 October.
Please put your completed surveys in the post before the Labour Weekend break.
Teacher PD Opportunity in China
The Asia New Zealand Foundation is offering up to 12 places to science and digital technology teachers from New Zealand to take part in a professional development opportunity in China. The trip will take place on 21-28 March 2020.
The purpose of the trip is to:
- provide teachers with first-hand experience of the rapidly growing science and digital technology industry in China as well as the economy, history, culture, and customs.
- allow teachers to learn about how science and digital technology is taught in China.
- inspire teachers to include more Asia content in their teaching.
The majority of the programme will take place in Guangzhou, China.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- be New Zealand citizen.
- be New Zealand registered Primary teachers with a STEM focus and Secondary teachers of Science, Digital Technologies or Robotics.
- be currently teaching at a school and have the full support of your principal.
- not have travelled to Guangzhou previously.
For more information and to apply on-line, go to the website.
Applications close 5pm, Wednesday 6 November 2019.
Prime Minister's Science Prizes
Nominations for the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes are now open. There are five prizes in total with a combined value of 1 million dollars. Two of the categories which are most relevent to your schools are the Science Teacher Prize and Future Scientist Prize. Click here for more information about these prizes.
If you would like to apply or know of anyone that would be suitable to apply, then go to www.pmscienceprizes.org.nz to find out more.
Applications close on 10 October.