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Teachers’ evening at Malaghan Institute
24/04/2015
Wellington secondary school science teachers are invited to a special evening at the Malaghan Institute.
Teachers meeting and sharing
21/04/2015
In late March, a group of passionate science teachers met online to discuss their craft, write SONYA VAN SCHAIJIK and CATH BATTERSBY.
A Nature of Science unworkshop
08/04/2015
Teachers of junior science are encouraged to join a unique professional development session on April 17.
Two for one conference aims to enliven science teaching
01/04/2015
For the first time, BEANZ and NZIC will run their conferences in tandem.
Science teacher inspired by US experience
05/03/2015
Sutapa Mukund was one of the first two recipients from New Zealand to receive the FDAT teacher award in 2014.
Creating ‘science champions’ in teaching training
06/08/2014
ANNE HUME and CATHY BUNTTING investigate the use of Content Representation (CoRe) design and the Science Learning Hub (SLH) to develop pre-service primary teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in science.
Coolest experience yet for science teacher
28/07/2014
Biology teacher SARAH JOHNS travelled to Antarctica as part of an Endeavour Teacher Fellowship with marine scientist DR JONATHAN BANKS.
Biomedical partnership forged on the soccer sideline
17/07/2014
SARAH BOASMAN and ANNETTE LASHAM share their experience of an Endeavour Teacher Fellowship.

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One of the most topical scientific issues of the 21st Century has to be the antibiotic resistance of microbes. This issue threatens, at its worst, to take our health system back to the brink of the 20th Century. At its best, it is causing a paradigm shift in policy, and thoughts and practises around the application, distribution and cost of antibiotics.As Science educators, we are the banner bearers of change. What we teach, and how we teach it, can expedite vital social change around attitudes to health, and particularly the expectations we place upon our medical practitioners. »
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