There are two New Zealand tours:

• NZ week-long tour
• NZ two day tour

Overview:

CORE Education in conjunction with iEducator brings you the New Zealand week-long EDtour. This tour provides the opportunity for educators to visit a range of New Zealand schools to observe and experience examples of teaching and learning for the 21st century.

Special focus will be mobile technologies, especially the iPad and iPod Touch.

This e-learning tour is New Zealand’s longest running and most popular—running now for 16 years, and over 1600 participants from New Zealand and overseas.

Who should participate?

Educators in all sectors of the education system within New Zealand or abroad, including:

• government officials
• principals
• senior leaders
• teachers
• boards of trustees members.

This tour will visit 7 schools: Primary through to a Middle School and covering deciles 1 - 10

Timing:

Tours scheduled for 2012:

• Monday 21 - Friday 25 May 2012
• Monday 27 - Friday 31 August 2012

Personalised Tour examples:

Tour focus:

You will visit 7 exemplary schools in Auckland, Tauranga, and Hamilton, where you will experience:

1. The latest developments in mobile learning technologies.
2. Integration of ICT through curriculum that is child-centred and enables pupils to take responsibility for their own learning.
3. Strong links between inquiry learning, integrated curriculum, thinking skills & ICT tools.
4. Growth and encouragement of interdependence through authentic opportunities for developing student voice, such as podcasting, student T.V. and other innovations.
5. Exploration of the use of mobile devices to enhance ICT access, and ways to implement a richer digital environment for students.
6. Focus on every child integrating ICTs in their learning using a deliberate and planned model
7. Student portfolio work emphasising reflective practice and use of ICT in all subjects.
8. Student-centred planning & learning with focussed, measurable goals.
9. Looking at factors that can achieve change in schools and its implementation.

This tour delivers the best value, most empowering way of equipping teachers with the vision and tools to develop relevant, tailor-made e-learning initiatives in their own schools.

Overview:

CORE Education in conjunction with iEducator brings you the New Zealand two day EDtour. This tour provides the opportunity for educators to visit a range of New Zealand schools to observe and experience examples of teaching and learning for the 21st century.

Demonstration of how eLearning can assist in the creation of supportive learning environments by offering resources that take account of individual, cultural and developmental differences.

Who should participate?

Educators in all sectors of the education system within New Zealand or abroad, including:

• government officials
• principals
• senior leaders
• teachers
• boards of trustees members.

This tour will visit 7 schools Primary through to a Middle School and covering deciles 1–10

Timing:

This 2 day tour occurs 2 times each year. Tours scheduled for 2012 are:

• Monday 11 June - Tuesday 12 June 2012
• Monday 10 September - Tuesday 11 September 2012

Personalised Tour examples:

Tour focus:

You will visit 4 exemplary schools in Auckland where you will experience:

1. Integration of ICT through curriculum that is child-centred and enables pupils to take responsibility for their own learning.
2. Strong links between Inquiry Learning, Integrated Curriculum, Thinking Skills & ICT Tools.
3. Growth and encouragement of interdependence through Authentic opportunities for developing student voice, such as podcasting, student TV and other innovations.
4. Focus on every child integrating ICTs in their learning in a deliberate and planned model
5. Student portfolio work emphasising reflective practice & use of ICT in all subjects.
6. Student centred planning & learning with focused, measurable goals.
7. Discussion on factors that can achieve change in schools and its implementation.