Develop School Roll

There are very few genuinely “golden” opportunities that come along but this integrated digital curriculum centered on teaching, learning and applying digital technologies and developing digital fluency is one of them.

As you institute this program at your school you set yourself, your students and your school apart from all the rest. you create an innovative and engaging environment and a customized learning experience that will not only enhance your offering to existing and future in zone students, you’ll provide a powerful incentive for out of zone and international student applications.

• Bigger rolls mean bigger budget allocations

• More resources

• Increased opportunities

• Greater recognition

Success drives success!

Reduce Admin Time

Nothing chews up more time, generates more frustration, consumes more valuable teacher attention and delivers fewer learning outcomes than red tape and administrative overheads. As you implement this digital paradigm the teacher dashboards, real time progress tracking, automated reporting and innovative curriculum control, experience has demonstrated that you can and will make substantial savings in administrative overhead and time consumption. That means:

• More time for the students,

• less stress for you and better still

• Greater productivity for all as the school is digitally transformed.

Transform Student Engagement

Is it something in the water? You might well ask! What is it that brings students into school hours before classes start, turning up of their own volition on Saturdays or staying until well after classes finish on other days? It’s engagement, it’s motivation, it’s invention, it’s Innovation!

To quote Mr. Paul McClean Programme Director at Avondale College “The programme aims to bridge a widening gap between ICT education and the digital marketplace. A philosophy of knowledge-creation and innovative practice allows students to use sophisticated, industry standard technology to create their own market-ready applications, as well as gain educational qualifications and industry-benchmarked certifications along the way.

Students get engaged because:

• They can see and measure their progress

• They can take control of their own learning

• Every achievement is rewarded and every failure assimilated and applied in order to accelerate learning

• Nothing tastes better than success and the more you achieve the more you want to!

Drive Digital Pedagogy

“The programme aims to bridge a widening gap between ICT education and the digital marketplace. A philosophy of knowledge-creation and innovative practice allows students to use sophisticated, industry standard technology to create their own market-ready applications, as well as gain educational qualifications and industry-benchmarked certifications along the way.

It’s a strategy that is already gaining results. Not only are they gaining NZQA, CIE, MOS, Adobe, Autodesk and HP certifications alongside a proven-experience portfolio that will see them “hit the ground running” in any corporate digital environment, but Avondale College students are making headlines as they win national and international awards in IT.

The wider implications of this success are promising - not only for the individual students themselves, but for the future of New Zealand innovation in a globally competitive marketplace

Paul McClean, Programme Director, Avondale College, West Auckland

It works becasue:

• The programme is curriculum agnostic

• Credits are the automatic outcome of realigned productivity drivers in learners and teachers

• Becasue the teaching focus is developed around the individual learning style of each student

• Because students take responsibility for their own learning and teachers take charge of resourcing, mentoring and managing that learning

Certified PD Hours

Retaining industry currency and digital relevancy can be an expensive challenge for schools and teachers. Release time is precious, funds aren’t always available and sometime the courses on offer are playing “catch up” rather than “keep up” or get ahead. Becasue each of the certifications offered in this programme are backed and supported by major global tech companies you can be sure that the learning material and certifications are dealing with current technologies, are industry relevant and deliver marketable skillsets. This programme delivers:

• Certified PD hours

• 24/7 access to industry relevant qualifications

• Digital relevance and currency

• Is easy to propagate

• Requires minimal administration and

• Slashes PD costs for you, the school and your COL

Develop Your Community

Use this programme to drive digital literacy, digital mastery and digital fluency in and across your entire your Community of Learning.

You’ll can have the opportunity to train and equip all the teachers in your COL quickly and cost effectively, incubate digital creativity and build skills in junior students and build a solid foundation of career relevant skills in senior students.

You can even expand the programme to deliver meaningful, practical, life changing experiences for adult learners and those in the broader school community who are anxious to improve their own circumstances and be better able to support their own whanau.

There is something for every age group and every COL with a powerful pathway that will equip students with a real world qualification, genuinely applicable digital skills, a confidence in their ability to succeed and a capacity to think and perform to a global standards.

Internationally Recognised

As the world moves to a global economy with easier movement of employees and increased competition, there is a technology skills gap that can be felt in almost every country.

The 2017 IT Skills and Salary Report from Global Knowledge confirms that skills gaps are a global concern.  In their survey of 14,300 IT professionals worldwide, more than two-thirds of the IT decision-makers reported a gap between their team’s skill levels and the knowledge required to achieve organizational objectives.  The increased need to match employer needs with workforce skills points out the value of certification.

Every certification offered in the programme are:

• Internationally recoginsed

• Backed and endorsed by industry giants like Adobe, Microsoft, Intuit, EC-Council and Apple

• Offer globally relevant credentials

• Recognised and respected around the world.

Certifications are powerful additions to any resume!