The education minister's plan to dismantle the Teaching Council and move key teacher training functions under ministry control has drawn strong criticism from teachers' unions, who accuse the government of a power grab and ignoring broader systemic issues affecting teacher well-被
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Look, there's no doubt um that there are we do have a problem with maths competency in New Zealand, and the Royal Society math report in 2021 outlaid that it said that just under 50% of teachers felt only moderately confident teaching any strand of maths. Uh, and that that they have to be generalists, they've got to teach maths and art and science and English and everything. And it is, you know, it's on us, and they have been failed by initial teacher education that didn't give them the maths training that they needed. So we are fast tracking that competence. You know, when you mentioned the books, we put in uh, yes, we put in workbooks, textbooks, but they go alongside teacher guides. And it helped it's helping to boost confidence and competency and mathematics. And that's why you saw yesterday that huge increase that we weren't expecting in year six maths uh achievement by six percent. And I put that down to those um prime maths books, the Oxford Maths books, the maths no problem maths books, because it does give the teacher a lesson by lesson guide.
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