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⚖️ The Professional Teacher

EDPROFST 614 · Module 1
📘 Book ⭐ Recommended 2024 · 7th Edition

The Professional Practice of Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand

Jane Abbiss, Tanya Wendt Samu & Martin Thrupp (eds.)

The definitive NZ ITE textbook. Covers professional identity, curriculum, assessment, culturally sustaining practice, and the political landscape of teaching in Aotearoa.

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📘 Book ⭐ Recommended 2019 · 6th Edition

The Professional Practice of Teaching in New Zealand

Mary Hill & Martin Thrupp (eds.)

Previous edition of the canonical ITE text — valuable for historical framing, foundational NZ curriculum context, and understanding how the profession has evolved.

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📄 Article ⭐ Recommended 2009

The Te Kotahitanga Effective Teaching Profile

Russell Bishop & Mere Berryman

In Set: Research Information for Teachers. The research base behind culturally responsive pedagogy in Aotearoa — essential for understanding how relationship-based teaching closes equity gaps for Māori students.

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📄 Article Optional 2012

Know Thy Impact

John Hattie — Educational Leadership

A sharp, provocative argument that a teacher's awareness of their own impact is the most powerful driver of student learning. Challenges teachers to use evidence, not intuition.

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📘 Book Optional 2013

Learning to Practise: A Paper for Discussion

Helen Timperley

A foundational ITE framework on what it takes to build genuine professional practice — moving beyond compliance and surface performance towards deep inquiry and adaptive expertise.

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📘 Book Optional 2010

Scaling Up Education Reform: Addressing the Politics of Disparity

Russell Bishop, Dominic O'Sullivan & Mere Berryman

How the Te Kotahitanga programme was scaled across New Zealand — a powerful study in systemic change, political resistance, and the deep structural causes of educational disparity.

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📊 BES ⭐ Recommended 2003

Quality Teaching for Diverse Students in Schooling: Best Evidence Synthesis

Adrienne Alton-Lee & Ministry of Education NZ

The landmark New Zealand evidence synthesis on what quality teaching looks like for diverse learners. Foundational for any NZ teacher — frames UDL, equity, and high expectations together.

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Puna Kōrero — Sources

Bishop, R., & Berryman, M. (2006). Culture Speaks: Cultural Relationships and Classroom Learning. Huia Publishers.

Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Learning Media.

Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.