Betty-Anne Lawler-Wishnowsky, Childhood and teaching in Palmerston North, Part 2 - Manawatu Conversations

Description: Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th March 2021. Part 2 of 2. Teaching, Ross Intermediate for probationary year, then primary teaching at Terrace End, then secondary at Manawatu College. Not a rigid curriculum. Total emersion schools. Involvement with Maori, attempts to increase number of Maori teachers. Grandson now a qualified teacher, family tradition. How teaching has changed. New Zealand history in schools. Assessment in schools (internal exams). Gifted children, special needs children. Teaching English in a total emersion school. To Teachers’ College. Maori trained teachers diverted to government departments because of language skills. Requirement of 3% of school material in Maori. Widowed and left teaching to run husband’s animal pharmaceuticals business.