Review of Teachers’ Council to begin
Hon Hekia Parata
Minister of
Education
13 July 2012 Media Statement
Review of Teachers’ Council to
begin
Education Minister
Hekia Parata has today announced the chair and members of
the committee that will review the role and functions of the
New Zealand Teachers’ Council as part of the
Government’s programme of work to lift student
achievement.
“The goal is to ensure that the Teachers’ Council is a strong, professional body that will set and enforce high standards, promote effective teaching practice, develop the professional community of teachers, and lead public discussion on education issues,” Ms Parata says.
“The Teachers’ Council Review Committee will investigate the council’s current capability to focus on these roles, and on what structural and legislative arrangements might be needed to ensure effectiveness.”
Pauline Winter has been appointed chair of the committee and Dr Judith Aitken, John Morris, Robyn Baker and Jonathan Krebs members.
“The committee has skills and expertise right across education, business, the State Sector, and professional bodies. They’ll seek input from a wide range of stakeholders, and report to me at the end of October.
“This Government is determined to lift student achievement, and we know that quality teaching has the biggest in-school impact on achievement,” Ms Parata says.
“Strong professional leadership, distinct from government or industrial organisations, will achieve a great deal in lifting the status and profile of teaching as a career for the 21st century.”
Teacher’s Council Review Committee
Members
Chair: Pauline
Winter
• Chair of the National Advisory
Council on the Employment of Women
• Director of
Pasifika Advancement at AUT University in Auckland
•
Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Transport Accident
Investigation Commission
• Director INTERPACIFIC
Ltd
• Former Chief Executive of Workbridge Inc
• Pacific Business Person of the Year 1997
• QSO 2008.
Dr
Judith Aitken
• Member of the Wellington
Regional Council
• Member of the Capital and
Coast District Health Board
• Former Chief
Executive of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs
•
Former Chief Review Officer of the Education Review
Office
• QSO 1997
• New Zealander of
the Year (National Business Review) 1999
Robyn Baker
• Director of
the New Zealand Council for Educational Research
•
Leader of the Teaching and Learning Research
Initiative
• Board member of the Australian
Council for Educational Research
• Chair of the
Education Committee for the Royal Society of New
Zealand
John
Morris
• Headmaster of Auckland Grammar
School
• Founding chairman of the Association of
Cambridge Schools in New Zealand
• Former chair
of the Education Forum
• Woolf Fisher Fellowship
for Outstanding Educational Leadership 1999
Jonathan Krebs
•
Practising Crown Prosecutor
• President of NZ Law
Society Hawke’s Bay
• Member of Hawke’s Bay
Standards Committee, Legal Aid Tribunal, and Chief High
Court Judge’s criminal rules sub-committee
•
Convenor of NZ Law Society Criminal Laws Committee
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