School stories
The NZC Online team interviewed educators at Learning@School 2011 in Rotorua about the curriculum based workshops they were presenting at conference.
Te Ao Whanui - local participation, global confidence
In this talk Anne Sturgess discusses a social studies programme at Edgecumbe College. She is joined by students who explain how Te Ao Whanui - local participation, global confidence, supported them to be autonomous learners.
Shared vision with a twist
In this talk Stuart Armistead explains how the collaborative forming of the Stanley Avenue Learner guides all learning and teaching at his school. Particularly Stuart tells us how this vision is integral in the use of technology in a meaningful way.
School snapshots
Turning kids on to learning
Raising student achievement is driving Kaiwaka School’s curriculum development and changing classroom practices.
New resources
NZC Update issue 7
This Update focuses on findings from Te Kotahitanga and highlights how this programme is producing positive gains for Māori students by influencing leadership, teaching, and learning in participating schools.
Research reports
Monitoring and Evaluating Curriculum Implementation: Final Evaluation Report on the Implementation of The New Zealand Curriculum 2008–2009
This report presents findings from a national evaluation of the implementation of The New Zealand Curriculum. The project sought to establish a national picture of implementation progress in English-medium schools in the first two years following the curriculum's launch in November 2007.
Implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum: Synthesis of Research & Evaluation
The revised New Zealand Curriculum was launched in November 2007, with schools required to give full effect to the curriculum by February 2010. Progress towards this has been monitored using evidence reported by the Education Review Office and research teams commissioned by the Ministry of Education. This report synthesises this evidence.
Evaluation at a glance: What ERO knows about effective schooling
This report explores five themes from a cross-section of ERO's evaluations in primary and secondary schools over the past four years.
New in the resource bank
Learning journey on eel trail
Karanui College students took a close look at one of the important taonga of their region recently - the Raumahunga River as part of an integrated programme.
Letters from the past
These letters give a fascinating insight into some of the events of World War 2, seen through the eyes of Dan Findlay who served in the RAFVR.
The Google art project
'Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.'
Science in a van
The Science in a Van roadshow is available to visit early childhood education centres, primary, and intermediate schools, and provides an experience that demonstrates how science is relevant to everyday life and understanding the world around us.
National Standards
Self review tool for schools: focus on students achieving below curriculum expectations in Literacy (years 1-8)
This self-review tool is one of the review tools designed by the MOE to support schools to better understand what they need to achieve and what they should focus on next.
Key Competencies Online
Discussion tool: Key competency planners
The inclusion of key competencies on planning templates has been one common strategy used by teachers. This discussion tool highlights some of the benefits and risks of key competency planning templates, and suggests some possibilities for consideration.
Software for Learning: Snapshot of learning for Geocaching
Get Lost! is a Geocaching project based on Education Outside the Classroom. It was one of a number of projects designed to provide Papatoetoe High School staff with opportunities to begin to explore effective teaching in The New Zealand Curriculum.
ePortfolios: Digital portfolios - Guidelines for beginners
If you are interested in finding out more about digital portfolios these MoE guidelines are aimed primarily at, but not limited to, a non-technical audience with limited prior knowledge of ePortfolios.
If you are a school leader, then the guidelines should provide you with sufficient understanding to enable you to consider the place of ePortfolios in your school’s ongoing educational strategy.
More complex than skills: Rethinking the relationship between key competencies and curriculum content (PDF 400KB)
This NZCER paper by Rose Hipkins discusses the different possible interpretations of the key competencies, and outlines two related implementation pathways. One common science topic (the water cycle) and two of the key competencies, as they were developed for the New Zealand Curriculum, are used as examples to illustrate possible changes in teaching and learning approaches.
EDtalks: Deepening understandings of the key competencies
In this EDtalk, Rose Hipkins talks about ways the key competencies can change both the learning and the subject content. Rose emphasises:
- the importance of understanding how meaning is made in a subject
- what the literacies and conventions are
- how students should be included in the 'hidden game' as they make the learning-to-learn links.
NZC snapshot: Matamata College
Partnership makes for key competencies and learning languages success
A genuine desire to bring learning languages and the key competencies alive in classrooms supports this innovative partnership between two schools.
Middle Schooling
EDtalks: Real learning; It's bigger than inquiry
In this clip, Lane Clark explores the processes of learning while taking a lighthearted look at some of the current practices within many of our schools.
Digistore: Learning paths in secondary science
Teachers and students at Mt. Roskill Grammar School have explored how an online learning environment can enhance learning opportunities.
Supporting student learning
Te Kete Ipurangi has collated a series of resources to continue to support students affected by the Christchurch earthquake. Resources are organised by year level and can be sorted by learning area.
Tales from Te Papa – Cross curriculum teaching resource
A DVD has been sent to all intermediate and secondary schools comprising a short video to interest and engage students.
EDtalks: Embracing a cyber world – managing the risk
Brett Lee spent 20 years in the Queensland Police Force investigating child exploitation. He educates children, teachers, parents, and the wider community about the dangers and responsibilities that surround the Internet and mobile phones.
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Published on: 12 Apr 2011
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