Resource Teachers: Literacy
8 February 2001 Media Statement
Resource Teachers: Literacy
Education Minister Trevor Mallard today
announced the schools which would host 121 new Resource
Teachers of Literacy.
The teachers would be based at 86 schools from Kaitaia to Invercargill and would play a major part in the Government's efforts to tackle literacy among the very young, Trevor Mallard said.
The positions are a result of a $34.4 million initiative over four years to help children, mainly up to eight years old, who are most at risk of failing to read and write.
The 69 existing Resource Teachers of Reading will form the core of the new Resource Teachers: Literacy, with an additional 40 positions coming on stream during this term.
The remaining resource teachers will work within Maori Immersion settings.
“As promised the Government is committed to increasing the literacy skills of all students, and especially those in their earlier years,” said Trevor Mallard.
“The specialist Resource Teachers: Literacy (RT: Lits) will be available nationwide for teaching those children in years 0-8 who need more intensive teaching in reading and writing.
“Even with the best practice in the classroom, many of our children are at risk of failing to read and write, and they are the ones who will benefit from the work of these resource teachers."
Trevor Mallard said the Literacy Taskforce recognised that some pupils required intensive teaching if they were to have the opportunity to reach their potential, and it recommended to Government that there should be a nationally co-ordinated system of literacy interventions.
“The Government fully supports this view, hence the establishment of resource teachers of literacy.
“The 121 literacy specialists will provide expert support to teachers in developing their classroom reading and writing programmes, and they will work with those individual pupils in the primary sector who are the hardest to teach to read and write.”
“They will provide an itinerant resource that will give national coverage. All of these resource teachers will undergo a specific training programme at post graduate or post graduate certificate level, to ensure that all of the teachers who hold these positions are skilled in the latest strategies for literacy intervention.”
RESOURCE
TEACHERS :LITERACY
By Electorate and Ministry of
Education Local Office
Electorate MoE area School
# School Positions existing New Total
Northland Far
North 1026 Kaitaia Primary 1 1
Northland Far
North 1021 Kaikohe East Prim 1 1
Northland Far
North 1051 Moerewa Primary 1 1
Whangarei Far
north 1131 Whau Valley
Prim 1 1 2
Rodney Auckland 1407 Orewa
Primary 1 1
Waitakere Auckland 1432 Parakai
Primary 1 1
North Shore Auckland 1525 Takapuna
Primary 2 2
Albany Auckland 1481 Sherwood
Primary 1 1
TeAtatu Auckland 1309 Henderson
Primary 2 2
Te Atatu Auckland 1458 Ranui
Primary 1 1 2
Mt Albert Auckland 1213 Avondale
Primary 1 1 2
Epsom Auckland 1391 Newmarket
Primary 1 1 2
Tamaki Auckland 1289 Glen Taylor
Primary 2 2
Pakuranga Auckland 1466 Riverina
Primary 2 2
Manurewa Auckland 1354 Manurewa Central
Primary 2 2
Manukau
East Auckland 1427 Papatoetoe
East Prim 3 3
Manukau
East Auckland 6760 Sommerville
Intermediate 1 1
Maungakiekie Auckland 1271 Fairburn
Primary 2 2
Hunua Auckland 1434 Park Estate
Primary 1 1
Port Waikato Auckland 1453 Pukekohe North
Prim 1 1
Coromandel Hamilton 2027 Thames South
Prim 1 1
Coromandel Hamilton 1827 Miller Ave
Primary 1 1
Hamilton West Hamilton 2091 Whitiora
Primary 3 3
Hamilton East Hamilton 1940 Silverdale
Normal 1 1
Karapiro Hamilton 1719 Firth
Primary 1 1
Karapiro Hamilton 1893 Pekerau
Primary 1 1
Taupo Hamilton 1974 Tainui Full
Primary 1 1
Taupo Hamilton 1740 Hilltop
Primary 1 1
Rotorua Hamilton 1724 Glenholme
Primary 2 2
Rotorua Hamilton 1767 Kawerau Central
School 1 1
Tauranga Hamilton 1838 Mt Maunganui
Primary 1 1
Tauranga Hamilton 1992 Gate Pa
Primary 1 1
Bay of Plenty Hamilton 2016 Te Puke
Primary 1 1
Bay of Plenty Hamilton 1684 Apanui
Primary 1 1
Taranaki King
Country Hamilton 1876 Otorohanga Primary 1 1
Taranaki
King Country Hamilton 2040 Turaki Primary 1 1
Taranaki
King Country Wanganui 2244 Stratford
Primary 1 1
Rangitikei Wanagnui 2458 Taihape
Primary 1 1
Rangitikei Wanganui 2389 Lytton Street
Prim 1 1
Rangitikei Wanganui 2396 Marton Junction
Primary 1 1
New Plymouth Wanganui 2232 Spotswood
Primary 1 1
New Plymouth Wanganui 2167 Fitzroy
Primary 1 1
Whanganui Wanganui 2226 Ramanui
Primary 1 1
Whanganui Wanganui 2345 Carlton Primary
1 1
Palmerston North Wanganui 2466 Terrace End
Primary 1 1
Palmerston North Wanganui 2418 Central
Normal PN 1 1
Otaki Wanganui 3032 Taitoko
Primary 1 1
Otaki Lower Hutt 2939 Otaki
Primary 1 1
East Coast Lower Hutt 2597 Mangapapa
Primary 1 1 2
East Coast Lower Hutt 2577 Hillneath
Primary 1 1
Tukituki Lower Hutt 2569 Hastings Central
Primary 1 1
Tukituki Lower Hutt 2548 Camberley Primary
1 1
Tukituki Lower Hutt 2723 Waipawa
Primary 1 1
Napier Lower Hutt 2628 Onekawa
Primary 2 2
Wairarapa Lower Hutt 2742 Woodville
Primary 1 1
Wairarapa Lower Hutt 2907 Masterton Central
Primary 1 1
Waiarapa Lower Hutt 2850 Greytown
Primary 1 1
Mana Lower
Hutt 3074 Windley
Primary 2 2
Rimutuka Lower
Hutt 3053 Upper Hutt Primary 1 1
Hutt South Lower
Hutt 3066 Waiwhetu School 1 1
Hutt
South Lower
Hutt 3058 Wainuiomata
Intermediate 1 1
Wellington
Central
Lower Hutt 2918 Mt Cook
Primary 1 1
Wellington Central Lower Hutt 3040 Thorndon
School 1 1
Rongotai Lower Hutt 2892 Lyall Bay
Primary 1 1
West Coast Tasman CH-CH 3206 Motueka South
Primary 1 1
West Coast Tasman CH-CH 3236 Westport South
Prim 1 1
West Coast Tasman CH-CH 3361 Greymouth
Primary 1 1
West Coast Tasman CH-CH 3376 Hokitika
Primary 1 1
Nelson CH-CH 3209 Nelson Central
Primary 1 1
Kaikoura CH-CH 3071 Whitney
Primary 1 1
Kaikoura CH-CH 3391 Kaikoura
Primary 1 1
Kaikoura CH-CH 3566 Waiau
Primary 1 1
Waimakariri CH-CH 3389 Kaiapoi North
Primary 1 1
ChCh Central CH-CH 3317 Ch-ch
East
Primary 3 3
ChCh East CH-Ch 3286 Avondale
Primary 1 1
Wigram CH-CH 3588 West Spreydon
Primary 1 1
Ilam CH-CH 3305 Burnside
Primary 1 1
Rakaia CH-CH 3326 Darfield
Primary 1 1
Rakaia CH-CH 3282 Ashburton
Intermediate 1 1
Aoraki CH-CH 3558 Timaru Main
Prim 1 1
Waitaki Dunedin 3785 Oamaru North
Prim 1 1
Dunedin North Dunedin 3706 Arthur Street
Prim 3 3
Clutha South land Dunedin 3710 Balcutha
Primary 1 1
Clutha Southland Dunedin 3956 Gore Main
Primary 1 1
Invercargill Dunedin 3948 Elston Lea
Primary 1 1
Invercargill Dunedin 3966 Invercargill
Middle 1 1
Invercargill Dunedin 4047 Waverley Park
Primary 1 1