What is professional development?
Dear notice provider
Education Gazette has introduced a new professional development listing system.
Due to a Ministry of Education request to place more content online and less in print, professional development notices will now appear in print listing only the name of the course provider and the course title.
However, the print listings will now be arranged by sector (early childhood, primary/intermediate, secondary) and by region, making it much easier for teachers to see the courses of interest to them in their area. For further information they can contact the course provider or consult the Education Gazette website.
In addition, we have greatly enhanced the searchability of notices online. With the previous system, readers often had to scroll through long listings of many courses to find the one course they were looking for.
From today, September 29, course providers will submit individual course listings (rather than many courses in a single notice listing) through our website. Each course listing will be categorized (and searchable) by audience (early childhood, primary/intermediate, secondary), region and topic as well as date and keyword.
We have tried to reduce the need to enter the same course listing more than once by allowing listings to have more than one region and date.
After a course listing is submitted, it will be checked by Education Gazette staff who will then approve it to appear online.
Readers will be able to use the new professional development listing system from Monday October 5.
Course providers should note the Notice numbers of their course listings (the numbers are generated automatically by our database and are displayed after the successful submission of each new notice).
Please do not hesitate to suggest new topics or other additions to this system. For example, we may need to offer more Auckland regions (Auckland North, Auckland West etc).
We intend to provide readers with a notice alert service that will automatically email them notices that are of interest to them.
Explanation of fields used for Professional Development notice submissions
Name of institution/course provider
The content of this box will appear as a heading for your notice in print and online.
The content of the following 4 boxes will not appear with your notice.
Name of person placing notice
Position
Phone
Email
Complete this box and tick the box below it in order to receive email confirmation
Course title
The content of this box will appear as a heading in print and online.
Date of insertion (Notices may appear only once per term)
This box decides the printed edition in which your notice will appear.
Choose audiences
You may choose more than one audience. Notices will be arranged by audience (and region) in print. ‘Audience’ will also be a search option for online listings of PD notices.
Choose topic
PD notices will be searchable online by topic.
Select a date and region for this event
PD notices will be arranged in print by region (and audience). You can choose more than one date and region for each event.
By Arrangement
Use this option for courses that can take place anytime (ie by arrangement.)
Enter your notice
The content of this box will be readable online only.
Time
Optional field.
Venue
For courses that take place in more than one region and/or date, we suggest typing each venue or location separated by a semi-colon.
Cost
Optional field
Facilitator
Optional field
For further information
Include contact details such as your website here.
Special request
The content of this box will not appear with your notice. Use it to communicate with Education Gazette staff.
Anti-spam box
You must complete this box before your submit your notice.
Submit
Click here to submit your notice to our database.
Email editor@edgazette.govt.nz for a graphical version of this information.