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The winners of the prestigious Linking Minds teacher travel scholarships for 2012 have been announced.
They are: Stacey Reriti-Smith (Natone Park School, Porirua), Piata Allen (Massey High School, Waitakere), Viki Exter (Roslyn Kindergarten, Palmerston North) and Nichola McCall (Manurewa High School, Manukau).
“This year we received 150 applications which is a record, we had more applications than usual from teachers in low decile areas, and the level of interest and proficiency in Te Reo was a step change higher than in previous years,” said British Council NZ Country Director Ingrid Leary.
The Linking Minds Scholarship is a prestigious international award for young teachers who identify themselves as emerging leaders, and has a particular focus on teachers who are interested in bilingual education. They four winners will travel to Wales during the next NZ school holidays in early October 2012.
The scholarship is funded by the British Council, the Ministry of Education, the New Zealand Teachers Council and the NZ-UK Link Foundation, and aims to recognise and promote effective teaching by providing international experience for teachers early in their careers. was the focus of their trip – along with the promotion of leadership in teaching. You can see the FLIP camera video blogs made by Alison Derbyshire, Zoe Bridewell, Tim Watson and Aimee Warrender on their travels here. The four will make a presentation about the trip to senior education officials, and key partners at an event in Wellington in September. They will also be connected in to the Linking Minds alumnae which continues to provide peer support and networks for Linking Minds scholarship winners.
The award is sponsored by the NZ - UK Link Foundation, the British Council, the New Zealand Teachers Council and the Ministry of Education. This fully-funded two-week professional development trip to the UK is for young teachers from early childhood centres, primary and secondary schools (under 35) who are emerging leaders. Selected teachers have opportunities to build on and develop new knowledge, skills and confidence in their leadership capacity both as classroom teachers and as leaders in their schools.
The theme of a Linking Minds visit is professional leadership. All four teachers have taken on leadership roles in their schools very early in their career, and were seen as having significant potential to be future leaders in the New Zealand education system.
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The four 2009 winners were: Tina-Maree Hooper from Cambridge Primary School, Steven Mouldey from Wellington High School, Hayley Ryan from Dawson Primary School, and, Joanna Blick from Saint Paul’s Catholic School.
You can view the Teachers' thoughts on their Linking Minds 2009 experience here.
Linking Minds is a prestigious international award for young teachers who identify themselves as emerging leaders. The award is sponsored by the NZ - UK Link Foundation, the British Council, the New Zealand Teachers Council and the Ministry of Education. The programme aims to recognise and promote effective teaching by providing international experience for teachers early in their careers. The award funds four New Zealand teachers to spend two weeks over the April holiday period of every second year attached to a Local Authority in the United Kingdom exploring best practice in the region. An additional component examining language immersion settings in a Welsh language school will also be included in the programme. Participants must be in their first five years as fully NZ registered teachers in the schools sector and under 35 years old. The costs of travel, accommodation and general living expenses including interview and selection costs will be met.
This fully-funded two-week professional development trip to the UK is a prestigious award for young teachers (under 35) who are emerging leaders. Selected teachers will have opportunities to build on and develop new knowledge, skills and confidence in their leadership capacity both as classroom teachers and as leaders in their schools.
The theme of a Linking Minds visit is professional leadership. All four teachers have taken on leadership roles in their schools very early in their career, and were seen as having significant potential to be future leaders in the New Zealand education system.
The selected teachers will spend a fortnight hosted by a local authority in the UK. While there, the teachers will have the opportunity to learn about latest trends and initiatives in the UK, and to share current thinking and ideas from New Zealand. One of the areas they will specifically explore will be a human rights based approach to learning, advocated by the Human Rights Communities in Education Trust.
For more information, please contact us or see the Ministry of Education website.
Thanks to our partners NZ-UK Link Foundation, the Teachers Council and the Ministry of Education.
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