Professional Development Resources
This part of the website is for all PD resources. If you have resources please send them to moderator@aceaotearoa.org.nz
Resources
The Professional Development Resources are organised into six sections:
Please click here for a full list of the resources in each of the above sections.
Please email any additional resources that you are able to share with others in the sector to moderator@aceaotearoa.org.nz
Needs Analysis
Who needs it? Three essential elements of a framework for assessing needs, Joyce Stalker with Katherine Peet, Robert Tobias and Catherine Delahunty, download the document.
On Needs Analysis by Jennie Haré Hindemarsh .
On Needs Analysis by John Benseman.
Treaty of Waitangi
Websites
- The Treaty Resource Centre (www.trc.org.nz ) has a number of learning exercises and other free educational resources
- The Government's Treaty of Waitangi website (www.nzhistory.net.nz ) compares the Treaty in Maori and English.
- For a basic introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi, Arena (www.arena.org.nz ) provides a short guide "for people who don't know a lot about it".
- The Tino Rangatiratanga website has a history of the Treaty of Waitangi from a Maori perspective (www.aotearoa.wellington.net.nz )
Publications
- Tangata Tiriti -Sustaining our Communities from Network Waitangi Otautahi
- Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People Kit -an interactive workbook for migrant communities order form.
Starting Off, Guidelines for tutors and adults learning together
First published in 1995 by the Department of Education, Wellington. Second edition published 1998 by the National Resource Centre for Adult Education and Community Learning. Click here for word version of this resource.
The Nature of ACE
Julius Nyerere on Adult Education.Internet resources
This file is taken from the TEC/Adult education website:
- www.bizinfo.org.nz - good information on setting up a business, employing and developing staff, marketing and access to free training and mentoring for small organisations;
- www.goodpracticeparticipate.govt.nz - set up by the office for the community and voluntary sector. It has resources to help you gather information and consult your community. For example- participation techniques, efficient surveys and information collection techniques, assistance available when consulting specific groups (eg Maori, Pacific peoples, people with disabilities, rural communities, older people)
- www.acfe.vic.gov.au - good description of adult and community education in Victoria, good material and examples on clustering of ACE providers
- www.niace.org.uk - website of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education in England and Wales. It's an excellent source of information on all aspects of adult learning.
- www.LSDA.org.uk - information on research to inform policy and practice; help to shape and communicate education policy; and improvement and support programmes for organisations that deliver post-16 education and training.
- Click on 'publications' for several guides available including 'Dancing on a Moving Carpet': Leading change for quality improvement in adult and community learning' and 'Fit for Purpose: Self-assessment for small providers'.
- www.lifelonglearning.co.uk - information about several aspects of adult learning in England including promoting learning, community learning and older learners.
- www.dia.govt.nz - Community Resource Kit is available on this site. It includes community development practice, setting up a community group, planning, employment, running meetings, project management, sources of funding and practical record keeping.
- www.ericsp.org - this is a literature database.
- www.edna.edu.au - resources for education and training, including materials, case studies and templates relating to ACE.
- www.community.net.nz - Up-to-date information about hui and events relevant to community groups; 'how to' guides, for example analysing community problems and solutions; and case studies of successful community initiatives.
- www.ala.asn.au - the Adult Learning Australia site has interesting information on several topics including building learning communities, research and links to other websites.
- www.lcc.edu.au - the Learning Communities Catalyst has been established to serve as a clearinghouse of information, research, case studies and practical tools to assist communities, councils, government, businesses, policy-makers and other stakeholders research, advocate for and develop learning communities.
- http://www.eaea.org/topics.php - this is the topics page for the European Association for the Education of Adults. Scroll down the left hand side bar until you get to Quality Assurance and click. You may be interested in viewing the other topics to do with adult education as well.
- http://www.qualityacl.org.uk/ - site of the UK Learning and Skills Development Agency Learning and Quality Support Programme. A site completely dedicated to quality in adult education.
- http://www.s4squalitynetworks.org.uk/index.php? - site of the UK Support for Success programme. Related to the site above. Some, but not all, of the resources are the same.
- http://www.nrc.org.nz/index.html - ACE Aotearoa is an organisation that promotes and supports the diversity of lifelong learning in Aotearoa New Zealand, fosters collaboration and cooperation and builds ACE sector capability. Scroll down to the Quality Assurance section.
- http://www.onebird.com/Category/Quality%20Assurance - a quality assurance portal - more business than education focussed. If you are confident in extrapolating business material and applying it to education you will find useful material here.
- http://www.aontas.com/commed/quality.html - AONTAS is the Irish National Association for Community Learning. This page provides contact details of staff working on their quality assurance project. If they are happy to put their contact details on the net they will probably be happy to talk to you about their work.
