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INSIGHT LEARNING ACADEMY
has been offering education and training
courses since 1988. In January, 2006, Insight was purchased by
Gracelands Group of Services, a not-for-profit
organisation which provides a range of services within the
disability sector and operates throughout the Waikato and King
Country region.
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2009 Triumphs
Jean is the tutor for the Early Childhood
Course at the Insight Learning Academy, and she has been with
Insight for about five years. In July this year, Jean Crane was
one of the ten recipients of the prestigious Tertiary Teaching
Excellence Awards for 2009. These awards administered by Ako
Aoteoroa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence
cover all teaching staff across the full spectrum of tertiary
institutions from Universities to Private Training Enterprises
(PTEs). This is only the second time in the nine years since
their inception that a PTE tutor has achieved such an honour.
Building on her extensive teaching and
leadership experience in Early Childhood Education in the
Pacific, Jean has developed and led the delivery of the National
Certificate in Early Childhood Education (Level 3) at Gracelands
Insight Learning since 2004. Many of her students have had
little prior academic success in the past, and Jean is
extraordinarily effective in working closely with them to
develop their confidence and learning skills. In many cases the
students have gone on to achieve at levels they originally
thought were well beyond their capabilities.
Jean is highly supportive of her
colleagues and also works extensively with external service
agencies like potential employers, for the benefit of her
students and their communities. Jean relates how fortunate she
is “to have had such rich and varied learning experiences
throughout my life and how drawing on this knowledge and sharing
these wonderful experiences with others has enabled me to assist
students to catch the vision for their own lives and move on to
realise their own potential”.
Jean had also won the New Zealand
Association of Private Education Providers’ Tutor of the Year
Award in 2008.
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OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Insight Learning Academy, are:
• to provide quality education for students to better enable them
to achieve educational and employment outcomes.
• to create a learning environment that develops and protects each
student and staff member providing for cultural safety and
diversity.
• to provide a challenging environment that stimulates
self-directed achievement orientation in students, staff and
management.
• to provide integrated literacy and numeracy support to all
students.
• to continuously improve the quality of the educational
opportunities provided to students and the Care & Support Sector
workforce
• to provide learning opportunities that are driven by quality and
respond to industries' requirements, meeting the needs of industry
employers.
• to enhance the skills and abilities of the Care & Support Sector
workforce.
• to raise the profile and value of the Care & Support Sector.
• to provide an environment for the professional development of
staff resulting in effective and productive learning.
• to offer qualifications and credit achievement linked to the New
Zealand Qualifications Authority Framework.
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