Centre for Educational Development
Transforming teaching and learning experiences
The Centre for Educational Development is a community of skilled and experienced facilitators providing schools and related organisations with highly effective professional learning and development through “shifting learning” via a teacher inquiry model. Select your preferred learning style from our cluster groups, courses/workshops and workshops. If your teaching staff would like something more than our range of courses and workshops, we will customise a professional learning plan specific to your staff development needs across a range of curriculum areas.
What is CED?
The Centre for Educational Development is a diverse and cohesive community of facilitators who provide advice, support, personal development, and professional learning opportunities for early childhood, primary and secondary educators. Our facilitators are highly experienced and qualified and are in demand throughout Massey’s central North Island region and well beyond...
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Meet the team
The Centre for Educational Development is an integral part of the Institute of Education at Massey University and is split between Palmerston North and Hawke’s Bay. Professional learning facilitators bring a wide range of experience and expertise plus the benefits of strong links to the wider University...
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Shifting learning for teachers and students
Our stories
Professional development programme for a teen parent unit - A case study on providing a professional development programme that focuses on both the leadership and management and teaching and learning in Teen Parent Units.
Teaching as Inquiry to shift student learning - The Principal of St Mary’s Catholic School Whanganui believed that the school could accelerate achievement for the 20% of students who were at that time achieving below expectations. How did we help him shift student learning?
Our reading
No schools left behind - An article making a huge impact on my work. It helps make sense of what evidence to collect to inform an issue, explaining why a range of evidence is important.
Conceptualising teacher professional learning - Discussing the limitations of many traditional professional development approaches, the authors use the emerging approach of complexity theory. They conclude that best practice professional learning is that which is attuned to the culture of a particular school.
Our events
We run a range of
workshops, clusters and networks to assist teachers to problem solve, build on their expertise and create exciting learning communities. Find out more about the events happening soon in your area.
