Primary and Intermediate Schools:
Special Screening Programmes for Teachers

Teachers' Programmes

The following menu is intended for school staff / education groups and is based on screening production from the Primary Principals' Conference 2002. These can be used as a part of Teacher-only day programmes, an inspiring insert in your staff meeting schedule, or as a part of a combined teacher or curriculum group meeting. Many other options and programme ideas can be catered for. Enquiries welcome.

New Zealand School Days (Teachers' Version)

A montage of educational memory, unavoidably entertaining. From physical education in 1928, art classes in the 40s, schooling during WWII, the Maori School, mothercraft in intermediate schools, country schooling in the 50s, Fred Dagg on the wonders of school milk, road safety like you've never seen it. Images ancient to modern. An extended version of the successful Social Studies option.

Voices

Rare footage of three prominent New Zealand educationalists. Clarence Beeby on the transformation of the New Zealand education system in the post-Depression period, Sylvia Ashton-Warner interviewed by Jack Shallcrass in her only appearance on New Zealand television, and Elwyn Richardson on his experiences in radical education at Oruaiti in the 1950s. Both moving and illuminating, this screening required an extended season at the 2002 Primary Principals Conference. Essential viewing.

Issues

What was the official line on Maori education in 1956? What did Donna Awatere have to say about it in 1984? Do you remember Merv Wellington? Department of Education footage on Maori education in 1956, Donna Awatere and others on the same subject thirty years later, Russell Marshall and Mr Wellington head to head on the way ahead in education in 1981, and teacher recruitment commercials 1968 to 1990. How things change!

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