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The University of Waikato invites classroom teachers and senior management to a seminar to explore how change in the way health and physical education (HPE) is conceptualised can support both teachers and children to have positive and meaningful experiences in the HPE learning area and across the curriculum.
Two seminars will run:

The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) and Ako Aotearoa are jointly funding a  Request for Proposal (RFP) in the tertiary sector. Proposals are being sought now, with applications open until Friday 5 October 2012.
We wish to commission a project that seeks to achieve a substantive and sustainable change in tertiary learner outcomes. The proposal might address improvement in learner outcomes in relation to one or more of the following areas of tertiary education:

TLRI Programme Director Robyn Baker explains the decision to introduce an RFP process for some TLRI Funding

This year we are introducing a new strand to the TLRI in the form of a request for proposals (RFP).

We are doing this after a two-year review process. We commissioned in-depth  reviews  of TLRI work in the early childhood and tertiary sectors, each exploring the contribution  the TLRI has made to teaching and learning. In each case symposiums were held to discuss and build on the review papers.

Chris Linsell's 'Teaching Algebra Conceptually in Years 9 and 10' TLRI  project has  given three teachers at St Hilda's Collegiate in Dunedin plenty to think about.