Schools will no longer be able to refuse to enrol disabled or impaired special needs education pupils under a major shake-up in the sector.

The Government also wants prospective teachers to get extra training at university so they can cope with the pupils, and an overhaul of the funding criteria for schools. More...

As well as running Endnote classes the UC Library has an Endnote wiki.

The Endnote wiki is one place to go when you have a question about Endnote. You can also email/phone/visit us in the Education Library.

Endnote is a bibliographic software package that allows you to manage the information you find.

When you find articles, you put the citation details into Endnote. When writing your academic work, you use Endnote to create the citations and bibliography for you....just like magic!

Endnote classes are run regularly throughout the year at the Education Library. We have sessions during the day, at night and on Saturdays. Hopefully there will be a session time to suit you. If not, get in touch and we can arrange a time for you.

For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels ahead in a year and others can’t. Now, as the Obama administration offers states more than $4 billion to identify and cultivate effective teachers, Teach for America is ready to release its data. An article in The Atlantic discusses the findings.

A new study suggests that elementary school may be a breeding ground for maths anxiety. The study found that when elementary school teachers, who are primarily female, displayed a high level of anxiety about math, that skittishness was transmitted to their female students. Those students who spent a year with a math-phobic teacher displayed lower math achievement and an increased belief in stereotypes about female mathematical ability. ...read more

Check out the new-look Education subject guide. Your one-stop shop for information and websites to assist you in your studies.

Are you are developing a LEARN site for your courses? If you have any assignments that require students to locate information, get in touch with the Information Librarians in the Education Library. We can develop assignemtn specific help for you to put onto your LEARN site that will assist your students in their studies.

Date: Monday 25th January 2010
Cost: $50.00 per person
Where: Commerce Building, Room 011
Arts Road, off Clyde Road
Parking: Free -Student car park off Arts Rd


The University of Canterbury is pleased to host a symposium on effective implementation of mobile library services and m-library applications. The focus will be on preparing for implementation of mobile service delivery –the rationale, persuading others of the benefits, setting up policies and processes to demonstrate best practice and implementation and evaluation.

Contact: Liz Bereford for more information.Email or Phone 03 3642987 extn 7897

The catalogue and parts of the Library web will be unavailable for a number of periods due to a major upgrade, including Sunday 10 Jan from 7pm-11pm, and Tuesday 12 Jan 4pm to Wednesday 13 Jan 1pm. There will be times during this period when everything may be working but services will go up and down without warning, and may be slower than usual. If you need help please contact the Library.

Services that will be temporarily unavailable include Interloans Requests Forms, Library hours and borrowing information, and My Library Account.

Well, we have all survived our first week back at work for 2010. If you are wanting cardboard journal boxes to put things in, come into the Education Library foyer. We have quite a few on the give-away table at present.

With the start of the new year, our minds turn to the new batch of students about to hit our doors, and to the returning students from last year.

+If you are an academic, remember that we can do library skills sessions for your students. The students will benefit from greater information seeking skills throughout their time at Canterbury University. You will benefit by having interesting assignments with a greater depth of research to mark.

+ If you are a student, remember you can have an individual meeting with a librarian for help with assignments or Endnote. The library runs tutorials that you can book into.

Welcome back to all. I hope you are returning all refreshed after a lovely Christmas holiday. The shelves in the library have all be tidied over the summer break so every book/kit/cd etc should be in its rightful place. Now is the time to come in and get resources out....they will be easy to find!

Merry Christmas to everyone! We will be closing at 5pm on the 23rd of December and re-open at 8am on January the 5th 2010. Have a safe and happy holiday. We look forward to seeing you back in the New Year.

There will be a meeting at the Education Library on the 18th December at 10am to talk about Library Collections. How is the book budget spent? What if you want to order another journal title? Come along

The Education Library staff are about to head off for their Christmas lunch...but fear not, the Education Library is still open. Staff from other library branches step into the breech.