Tolley turns heat back on Teachers
Friday 8th June, 2011
Education Minister Anne Tolley is rejecting claims the government isn't putting enough resources into a scheme to improve the way mainstream teachers deal with Maori students.
Principals Federation president Peter Simpson has accused Mrs Tolley of ramming through her national standards assessment system at the expense of Ka Hikitia.
But Mrs Tolley says it's not about resources.
“It's a matter of teachers from the school leaders down changing their attitudes to the way that they work and support Maori students in schools, so that’s why Peter Simpson should look in his organisation and talk about what they could be doing, not what the government should be doing. It’s about an attitudinal change that’s needed,” she says.
Mrs Tolley says national standards will tell the Ministry of Education where extra support is needed for Maori students.
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