New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards 2016 – winners named

Recipients of the 2016 New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards were named at a ceremony held at Auckland’s Massey University in Albany recently. For the second year running, teachers from around the country joined the official panel of education experts and cast their votes to add their choice of best resources to the judge’s selection.

The awards celebrate the excellent resources New Zealand companies have recently released in the New Zealand education market. The finalists this year are a mix of digital resources alongside traditional texts – a reflection of the range of materials that our teachers are using in today’s classrooms.

Winner of Best Resource in Secondary and a resource that, according to the judges, goes “beyond the obvious”, was Geography in Focus: Teaching and learning in issues-based classrooms. Published by NZCER Press and authored by Mike Taylor, Louise Richards and John Morgan (Eds), the judges stated that this text was a valuable resource for an often overlooked subject field, and also offered transferable methodologies that can benefit teaching practice in many other curriculum areas.

Full press release: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1611/S00124/nz-content-counts-education-awards-2016-winners-named.htm