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The Fulbright Cognition Scholar Award

Ngaire Addis: Fulbright Cognition Scholar

Speech: Angus Fletcher at Summit 2011

Thought Leaders Group: The Institute

Presenters ILE conference Ohio 2011

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"Currently there is no mechanism for a cohesive, widely shared understanding of the performance of Auckland’s education system"

"Education professionals and city leaders could champion the role of Maori language and culture and work closely with M?ori and other migrant groups to learn about their aspirations for success"

"All Auckland children need access to early childhood education or they will miss out on the best opportunities to launch successful lives". - Auckland Education Summit

Talking the talk

Children in New Zealand’s socio-economically advantaged communities generally start school with a working vocabulary of 6,000 or more words in English, while children from low socio-economic areas start school with a vocabulary of fewer than 3,000 words. A recent study by Jannie van Hees, Cognition research scholar and specialist in linguistics and pedagogy at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education, shows teachers how to improve school entrants’ patterns of interaction and oral expression in the classroom. The result is a complete turn around in students’ expression and engagement in learning.

Read more here: This article, written by Kate Backler - Faculty Writer and Communications, Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland, was originally published in Te Kuaka magazine (Issue Three, 2011).)

Read Jannie’s earlier work on this same topic. Click here

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Update of activity since the Auckland Education Summit

Since the Auckland Education Summit, the Cognition Institute and COMET have supported a kaitiaki leader group of key thinkers from across education in Auckland to meet regularly and progress the goals and actions identified by Summit participants, This work has focused on greater cohesion and alignment between all levels of the education sector, and between the education sector and the wider community.

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Academic adventure a life-changing experience

The fourth Fulbright-Cognition Scholar in Education Research for 2010, Dr Veronica O’Toole from the University of Canterbury has recently completed her study in the United States. A full report of her research will be published next year and here, she writes about the life-changing experience of this academic adventure.

I visited two American universities - Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut - to work with experts there and develop a research-informed emotional literacy programme to improve social and emotional wellbeing across whole New Zealand school communities, from school leaders and teachers down to students.

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2011 Fulbright Cognition Scholar in Education Research Announced

Mentoring required for new teachers and education leaders

Victoria University of Wellington academic Kate Thornton will explore the role of mentoring in supporting new teachers and developing education leadership at an American non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of teacher and school leader effectiveness. As recipient of the 2012 Fulbright-Cognition Scholar Award in Education Research, Kate will spend three months from August 2012 at the New Teacher Center in Santa Barbara, California, observing the Center’s teacher induction and school leadership development programmes.

The use of mentoring to support teacher leadership is well established and the subject of considerable research in the United States, and the New Teacher Center has served nearly 50,000 teachers and 5,000 mentors since its establishment in 1998. By observing the Center’s programmes and interviewing both mentor and teacher participants, Kate hopes to identify factors for the training and support of effective teacher mentors that could be applied in the New Zealand education sector, where an ability to show leadership that contributes to effective teaching and learning is required of all registered teachers.

Last round of 2011 Fulbright grants

Fulbright New Zealand invites applications for its final round of NZ-US exchange awards for 2011. Two of the awards are for visits to the US to share work to American audiences; the third is to host a US expert at your institution.

The following awards are available for short-term exchanges to the United States of America by New Zealand academics, artists or professionals:

Fulbright New Zealand Travel Awards

These awards, valued at up to NZ$5,000, are for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to visit the US for 12 to 90 days in order to present their work to American audiences. Approximately twelve awards are offered each year. Recent grantees have included academic experts in information technology, film history, greenhouse gasses and blended secondary/tertiary education, who will present their work at conferences and lectures in the US.
http://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nz-travel.html

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Submissions on Draft Auckland Plan

Many teachers, students, school trustees, education leaders, researchers and academics will be interested in submitting to the Draft Auckland Plan before it closes on 25 October.

The Draft Plan has a significant focus on education and skills. Priority 1.1 is to ‘put children and young people first’ and priority 1.2 is to ‘Improve education, health and safety of Aucklanders with a focus on those most in need’.

The Draft Auckland Plan, and the Draft Economic Development Strategy, are both weighty documents. To help you find the sections of greatest relevance in these lengthy documents, and begin discussions on making a submission, have a look at this summary document, click here

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Auckland City leads NZ with focus on children and learning

The Draft Auckland Plan’s focus on children and learning has been welcomed as smart and innovative by the leader of an independent education think tank.

“With one critical act, Auckland’s leaders have become the cheerleaders of children and of learning,” according to the Cognition’s Institute’s Principal Consultant, Nicola Meek.

“Auckland’s city leaders have declared that the smartest way to transform Auckland is to value learning. It’s the first time in living memory that a Council has made children and education a city priority.

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