by Kate MORGAN
Professors from Tartu University in Estonia visited Merrin School to look at teaching and learning in New Zealand.
Kate MORGAN — December 7, 2017
Professors from Tartu University in Estonia have visited New Zealand as their research has led them to come and look at best practice here. On recommendations from NZ Universities, the Professors visited Stonefields School in Auckland and Merrin School! They loved our child centred curriculum and commented on how well the values were being embedded across the school.
The OECD has put out research around the 7 principles of learning and our Estonian guests were thrilled to see that they were alive and well in learning spaces around Merrin!
The mission of the OECD ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.
The 7 principles of learning document is one that Merrin School uses extensively to ensure that our tamariki are getting the best education for today's world. Click here to read the recommendations of the OECD.
https://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/50300814.pdf
We were also lucky to welcome Dr Anne Swilka from the University of Heidelberg. Merrin School took part in a guest panel at the University of Canterbury around Innovative Learning where Anne was the keynote speaker. She became interested in our school, spent a day at Merrin and then offered to take the staff for a Professional Development session. The link to her presentation can be viewed below.
