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Tātai Aho Rau : Pushing the boundaries of educational possibilities
CORE Education completed projects
Below is an alphabetical list of projects undertaken and completed by CORE Education.
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CORE developed this Social Sciences curriculum resource in 2009 to investigate values and traditions, cultural interaction and identity, and to foster many of the principles of The New Zealand Curriculum.
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CORE developed the conceptual framework, researched and wrote the content and school stories for Educating For Asia: New Zealand Curriculum and Asia Guide. The guide was released in November 2009.
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DigiOps projects were joint partnerships between the Ministry, ICT-related businesses, and schools covering a wide range of schools and themes. CORE Education was contracted by the Ministry to evaluate a number of the DigiOps projects.
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CORE Education was commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry of Education to develop content for the Early Childhood Education website.
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The ECE ICT Professional Learning Programme was a national pilot programme for early childhood services initiated by the Ministry of Education and aimed at developing the innovative integration of ICT into teaching and learning and/or administration.
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This two-year Education for Enterprise (E4E) project supported students to demonstrate enterprising attributes and skills using new technologies in authentic learning environments.
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In this Ministry of Education Group Special Education project, CORE supported ministry personnel to develop and foster an online community of practice to support geographically-distanced participants.
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This project provided professional development for experienced principals in the Otago region, where the participants analysed and developed an aspect of their practice.
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CORE Education was commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry of Education to develop the Educational Positioning System (EPS) for teachers to use to self-evaluate their use of ICTs with classes.
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eXe provides teachers with a pedagogically sound tool that enables them to author and publish their own high quality educational resources without having to learn the technical intricacies of packaging standards.
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First Films was a digital film-making workshop run over four days. The course celebrated the movie-making genre by harnessing students’ creativity and giving them a new media platform to tell their stories.
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CORE Education was contracted to evaluate the Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICT PD) school clusters programme.
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Under the ICT PD initiative, clusters of schools throughout New Zealand were contracted for up to three years to provide ICT professional development programmes for teachers.
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In 2006 the New Zealand Ministry of Education established the InService Teacher Education Practices (INSTEP) project, a national research and development programme exploring effective approaches for the professional learning of inservice teacher educators, and developing evidence-based forms for improving inservice teacher education practice.
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This research study investigated the similarities and differences between the jobs and professional orientations of preservice teacher educators (PSTEs) and inservice teacher educators (ISTEs).
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CORE Education partnered with Weta Productions to develop a website based on the TV2 series Jane and the Dragon, Knight School (http://www.janeandthedragon.school.nz/), a platform for creative participation by New Zealand students.
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The KPEC (K-Perak E-Learning Cluster) project was a school-based programme designed to provide professional development for teachers in a cluster of five selected schools in Perak, Malaysia.
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Learning Languages is a new curriculum area in the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum and CORE Education has been commissioned by the Ministry of Education to conduct an evaluative study of current effective practice in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support the learning of languages other than English in English medium schools.
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Learn-Now was an internationally popular online extension and enrichment programme for 7-14 year olds. It was a thematic, cross-curriculum, project-based programme, designed to extend students of any ability.
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The e-Learning fellowships were launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Education. Annually, up to ten teachers are released from the classroom to conduct an e-learning research project.
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CORE Education in conjunction with the Halal Slaughtermen's Union of New Zealand and the Muslim Association of Canterbury received funding from the Department of Internal Affairs to determine the level of access to, and skills using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within the Canterbury Muslim Community and the Halal Slaughtermen nationwide.
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CORE Education were contracted to evaluate the MyLearn pilot, an online learning environment for students studying towards the New Zealand Diploma in Business.
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The Pasifika Digital Navigators Project was a collaborative initiative between Core Education and Canterbury Pasifika Ltd, which was made possible by the NZ Government's Community Partnership Fund.
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CORE Education together with Joan Dalton and David Anderson offered school leadership teams the opportunity to transform their school into communities of learning with high quality face-to-face workshops and access to a comprehensive and richly-resourced website for professional learning (PLOT).
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The Quality Teaching Research and Development in Practice Project (QTR&D) was an exploratory research and development project, funded by the Ministry of Education to support teaching and learning within social studies/tikanga-a-iwi across Māori medium and Samoan bi-lingual/bi-literacy teaching settings.
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T4T4T was a Ministry of Education-funded 15-month pilot project undertaken during the 2004 academic year. T4T4T was a web-supported professional development community designed specifically for groups of tertiary teachers working within four Canterbury tertiary institutions.
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TakingITGlobal is a social network encouraging youth involvement in global issues. CORE Education supports the TakingITGlobal website in year 7 and 8 and secondary classrooms.
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CORE has been involved in projects where workplace training and development has taken advantage of e-learning initiatives alongside face-to-face experience.
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Core Education have been a very supportive resource for us as we have explored some very challenging areas of our teaching practice.
Lynne Paul, Head TeacherNayland Kindergarten
