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TheSchoolDaily for Tuesday, 27 August 2002 "Building a networked learning community of parents, teachers and friends of schools." TheSchoolDaily is sponsored by: * ASCD http://www.ascd.org/index.html?schooldaily ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- EDUCATION NEWS OPTIONAL NCEA 'DOG'S BREAKFAST' http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15239 High school principals are warning that making next year's introduction of level 2 of the NCEA optional will cause a "dog's breakfast" of confusion in an already confused situation reports the New Zealand Herald. MALLARD DID NOT CONSULT OVER NCEA, SAYS UNION http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15226 Education Minister Trevor Mallard has been accused of failing to consult teachers about the development and implementation of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) reports the New Zealand Herald. HERVEY BAY BRIGHT SPARKS WIN STATEWIDE INTERNET SCIENCE QUIZ http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15214 Hervey Bay's Yarrilee State School is celebrating after winning $10,000 in a statewide Internet science quiz. Queensland's Education Minister Anna Bligh and Member for Hervey Bay Andrew McNamara has congratulated the school on its success and encouraged it to continue championing science in its community. MINISTER LAUNCHES 'FLOATING CLASSROOM' AT JACOBS WELL http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15215 Queensland's Education Minister Anna Bligh has officially launched The Educat - Jacobs Well Environmental Education Centre's new state of the art "floating classroom". Ms Bligh said the $425,000 catamaran was the impressive new public face of environmental education on the South Coast. TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15224 Heather Carey and Pat Terminello are co-principals at Mary MacKillop College, an all-girl Catholic secondary school in Adelaide reports The Australian. GAY STUDENT SUES FOR DISCRIMINATION http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15225 A gay former student of a Melbourne Christian school is taking legal action under equal opportunity legislation, claiming the school discriminated against him because of his sexuality reports The Australian. TIME TO PUT A STOP TO THIS GCSE CIRCUS http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15222 Exams at 16 are disruptive and unnecessary. We must do better comments Phil Revell in this report in UK's Guardian. EMERGENCY VETTING EFFORTS 'NOT ENOUGH' http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15223 Headteachers have branded British government efforts to clear a backlog of checks on teaching staff as too little too late, and warned that thousands of children could be sent home from school because of a lack of teachers reports the Guardian. SCHOOL CLOSES CHAPTER ON SACKING http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,2032571a6497,00.html PRINCIPAL URGES SPRAY SAFETY CHANGES http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2032315a11,00.html REBEL TEACHERS SAY NO TO PAY DEAL http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2032744a10,00.html UNSKILLED SCHOOL LEAVERS ON RISE http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,2032563a6016,00.html INTEREST IN OWNING FORMER RURAL SCHOOL http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/0,2106,2032663a6571,00.html PROP IN SCHOOLS TEAM http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,2031499a6439,00.html SIXTH PLACE BEST OF MALBOROUGH COLLEGE TEAMS http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/marlboroughexpress/0,2106,2032326a6424,00.html QUINESSENTIAL WEEKEND FOR QUILTERS AT WHANGAMATA http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/0,2106,2031951a6663,00.html BREAKFAST SCHEMES KICK START THE DAY http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/0,2106,2031945a6014,00.html ON A HOCKEY HIGH http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2032347a6502,00.html SHIFTING SIDEWARDS http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2032313a6503,00.html POLYTECHNIC STAFF REJECT MEDIATION OFFER http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2030236a3845,00.html MORE HIGH-LEVEL COURSES PLANNED BY POLYTECHNIC http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/hawkesbay/0,2106,2031389a6012,00.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKFAST FOR THE BRAIN BFTB: Breakfast for the Brain - Tennis http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15221 1. Name the Spanish tennis player who has been suspended for cocaine use. 2. Who is the women's number 1 seed for the US Tennis Open? 3. Who is the men's number 1 seed for the US Tennis Open? 4. Why is Russian tennis player Anastasia Myskina in the news after the New Haven Open? Answers... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEACHERS Study Skills from TESS: This week 'Reading and note-taking. Surveying the text' http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=14971 When you are given an essay topic to answer you need to read many texts to help you find the information for your essay. First you have to choose a book. Then you need to survey the book to see if it will help you with your particular topic. You should use both the index at the back and also the contents page at the front of the book to find out whether this book has the information you need. You cannot read the whole book, so you need to find the relevant pages to your particular topic. Once you have found a chapter that may be suitable you then have to survey it to find the paragraphs that might help you. Most university texts have chapters with various headings throughout. Scanning through these headings should give you an idea of whether that particular chapter is relevant to your essay topic and is worth reading in more detail. Astro's e-News - the electronic newsletter of GlobalNet http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15218 In this issue:Hot News - Clean up the World, the Quest; For Kids -That talk you have to give!!; For Teachers/parents - Let's see your Researching Skills; Just for Fun - Maths Activities; Issues for Today- Green Waste and Composting Letter to Deborah Coddington from Mike Frost, Project Manager, Tasmanian Qualifications Authority re her views on NCEA http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15217 Dear Deborah: I must confess I am perplexed by the hysteria that you and your people are whipping up over the NCEA. I keep an eye on the progress of both the NCEA and the work of the NZQA because Tasmania is in the process of establishing its own Qualifications Authority (TQA). In this we are drawing from the work of the NZQA and it has proved to be a valuable source of information for us. It is also world class. The NCEA is not a lot different from the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) a standards-based, criterion-based assessment, certification system for Years 9 - 12 and has been in place since the late 1980's. Contrary to the dire predictions being made about the NCEA it did not lead to a collapse in C19th century education practices, students have not been disadvantaged, employers have gradually come to terms with it, parents understand it and standards have, if anything, improved. An innovation to improve children's math scores: Can Singapore's success story be duplicated in Israel? http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=15166 >From http://www.haaretzdaily.com By Relly Sa'ar: Mathematical achievement in the Israeli education system leaves much to be desired. In the results of an international comparative mathematics test for eighth graders, published two-and-a-half years ago, Israel was ranked 28th out of 38 countries - between Thailand and Tunisia. The average mathematics score for Israeli students (466) was 21 points lower than the global average. Eighth graders in Singapore, on the other hand, were in first place with a score of 612 - 146 points more than their Israeli counterparts. 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