Rate My Professor Belinda Haig

Belinda Haig serves as Senior Professional Practice Fellow – Primary Education at the University of Otago College of Education, part of the Humanities Division, based at the Dunedin campus. In this capacity, she contributes significantly to initial teacher education, particularly through the Bachelor of Teaching (Primary) programme, preparing students for careers in primary schooling. Her teaching portfolio encompasses core curriculum areas essential for primary educators. She instructs in EDCR131 English and Mathematics 1, handling the English and Mathematics components for Dunedin students, laying foundational pedagogical skills in literacy and numeracy. Building on this, she co-teaches EDCR231 English and Mathematics 2 with Andrea Robertson, a prerequisite paper that advances proficiency in these subjects. In EDCR233 Visual Arts and Music, restricted to Primary Education students, Belinda Haig leads the Visual Arts section in Dunedin, fostering creative expression skills. She also features as teaching staff for EDCR332 Local Curriculum and Integration, collaborating with Andrea Robertson, Shannon McNatty in Dunedin, and Alli McKenzie, Julie Milligan in Southland, emphasizing curriculum adaptation and integration. Additionally, for EDPR231 Te Aka and Learning Languages, she works alongside Karina Nafatali and Lisa Yorke in Dunedin.

Complementing her teaching, Belinda Haig has engaged in educational research, co-authoring 'Primary students' perceptions of good teachers' with Steven S. Sexton, published in 2014 in Set: Research Information for Teachers by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. The article details a study capturing primary-aged students' self-reported views on qualities of good teachers, offering valuable insights for teacher training. This publication has garnered six citations. Furthermore, she publicly supported educational policy discourse by signing an open letter from leading New Zealand mathematics and statistics educators and researchers, including fellow University of Otago staff like Julia Milligan, advocating to pause the rollout of the rewritten Y0-Y8 maths and stats curriculum in 2025 to allow for necessary refinements.