NAMSA - New Zealand Normal & Model Schools

Our Mission: Leading innovation and best practice as specialist initial teacher educators.

  • Partnerships
  • Teacher Practice
  • Student Teacher Learning
  • Environment
  • Collegiality & Advocacy

Summary of 2016/17


1. Increased Partnership between ITE providers and NAMSA Schools 
2. Developing a Clinical Practice Pathway
3. Multiple Pathways
4. Raising the Status and Professionalism of Teaching
5. Normal and Model Schools leading Quality Practicum across the Sector
6. ITE System Responsiveness

  • We could use this as an assessment tool for CNS
  • My appraisal?

"An effective associate teacher is: … a learner who realizes that teaching is about living, theorizing, trying, reflecting, failing, succeeding, conversing, reading, planning, and trying things out all over again as new groups of students and new knowledge in the field challenge her to move to uncharted territory time and time again. There are no perfect cooperating teachers, only perfect conditions that feed the intellect and spirit of teachers willing to accept the challenge of [working with] a student teacher (Baum & Korth, 2013, p. 188)."

Conference - September 26, 2018

Initial Teacher Education - What's underway? 
Cathy Diggins & Alex Cliffe, Ministry of Education 

  • We need to avoid what has happened in the past where an increase in students in ITE meant that ANYONE could become a teacher. How can we avoid this, but still increase the number of students training.
  • Education Council - Initial Teacher Education 2021
  • Teacher Education - there is now a move away from all students having a Masters











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