Recently, I attended a well-run professional development workshop for English teachers on the Scholarship programme. It was a heartening experience in many ways.
Scholarship is intended for the top Year 13 students and is largely an unchanged concept that has been around since I started teaching in the 1980s.
Other Year 13 qualifications like Higher School Certificate, University Bursaries, and soon NCEA level 3, have come and gone, but Scholarship keeps on ticking.
It's an add-on for those top students - not a timetabled class in most schools. Interestingly, I've never participated in it because I've always had more qualified or more interested people leading the charge.
My current Head of English suggested I attend the PD workshop, so I did.
Along the way, the experts taking the workshop made the startling, revolutionary statement that we could learn from the experience of those who have taught Scholarship before - that this was a valuable exercise.
What a breath of fresh air!
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