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NZC Online update - August 2011

Each month we bring you an email update with information, links, strategies, and schools stories on New Zealand Curriculum Online, Key Competencies Online and the Secondary Portal.

There have been a number of new developments on NZC Online. As always we value your feedback. Please feel free to drop us an email, leave a comment on the site, or make any suggestions.

Secondary middle leaders - redesigned

Secondary middle leaders.

The Secondary middle leaders section on NZC Online has been redesigned. The site contains new videos, resources, discussion tools, and ideas to help middle leaders in their roles leading curriculum change in their departments. Here is a selection of exciting new resources:

What makes an effective middle leader?
This video and discussion tool helps you look at the various qualities that make an effective middle leader.

What is the vision for students in your department?
Natalie Cowie, head of English from Katikati College takes us through the process her department used to develop a vision for teaching and learning.

Assessment for learning
This discussion tool looks at student first assessment. Judy Maw, assistant principal and network learning facilitator, discusses student first assessment in an English context.

How do you support teaching as inquiry in your department?
In this video, Carol Jarrett discusses how her department uses teaching as inquiry to investigate 'problems of practice'.

School stories - redesigned

The school stories section on NZC Online has been redesigned. The stories are now organised into categories in a media gallery. We have also compiled a list of other TKI sites that contain curriculum related school stories. In addition you can find all 12 new videos from the newly redesigned Secondary middle leaders section in the Secondary middle leaders media gallery.

New NZC Online media gallery >>
Curriculum stories collection page >>
Secondary middle leaders media gallery >>

New resources

Rugby World Cup resources
With the RWC coming up, we are reminding you of the activity books and teacher notes available on NZC Online. This resource encourages primary and intermediate students to understand and get involved in the biggest sporting event ever held in New Zealand.

NZC Update 12 - Understanding teaching as inquiry
This Update describes observations made by the Education Review Office (ERO) in a recent evaluation of how New Zealand schools were using the teaching as inquiry process.

Learn more about vision impairment
This information for teachers is about visual problems in children and alerts teachers to what they can do about an unidentified vision problem.

Conservation week resources
Conservation week takes place between 11-18th September, and is an opportunity to celebrate New Zealand's unique wildlife and incredible environment. This post lists sites with information, activities, and ways to get involved.

EDtalks: Expressing the essence of the NZC
"The New Zealand Curriculum is the best in the world." Dr. Julia Atkin looks back at the history of curriculum change. Then she discusses the shift in perspective the current curriculum requires, and the particular challenge for secondary teachers to change from being a teacher of the subject to being a teacher of the person.

New in the resource bank

Hot science
Hot science profiles New Zealand scientists and researchers active in a wide range of cutting edge technologies and innovative endeavours.

Cross curricular project - Coastal adaptation to climate change
Mercury Bay Area School teachers have worked in collaboration with a team of environmental specialists including scientists, engineers, planners, social scientists and educators along with support from Environment Waikato and Thames Coromandel District Council.

ETV
eTV provides real-time and real-life resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. Staff and students from educational establishments throughout NZ can access this service with free access to live-streaming channels, a library of educational videos and an educational video shop. TV recordings are available through an annual subscription.

National Standards

New National Standards reading and writing illustrations
Set 5 of the National Standards reading and writing illustrations are now available on Literacy Online.

Secondary

NCEA update issue 1
The NCEA update will be an online publication only. As NCEA updates will become available as and when required, you can subscribe to receive an email notification when they become available online. In this issue:

  • level 2 achievement standards assessment material
  • consultation on level 3 standards live
  • changes to university entrance for 2014
  • NZQA secondary circulars
  • alignment of standards timeline
  • teaching and learning guides

Literacy Online: Secondary literacy
Secondary Literacy is a web space where teachers can locate information about students’ literacy needs, find material relevant to literacy in the learning areas, learn about literacy leadership, and locate information and links to NCEA literacy requirements.

Middle Schooling

Adolescent Literacy Resources: Linking Research and Practice (PDF 2MB)
This resource provides links between literacy research and classroom practice, including teaching and learning, literacy across the curriculum, and literacy leadership.

Tread Lightly
Tread Lightly is a climate change education initiative, providing free online tools and resources for educators to engage secondary school students in reducing their ecological footprints.

Ideas to inspire
A collection of inspiring ideas for using technology, sourced from classrooms around the world.

Key Competencies Online

Discussion tool: A thematic approach
Supporting the key competency idea of integrating knowledge, attitudes, and values in ways that lead to action.

Key competencies and themes
Natalie Cowie, HOD English at Katikati College, talks about the success of their thematic approach to learning.

NZ Herald: New working classes
NZ high schools are being transformed, making them more relevant for those not heading to university.

YouTube: Drive - The surprising truth about what motivates us
This lively animation is adapted from a talk by Dan Pink.

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