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NZC Online update - October 2010

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

School stories

Yolanda Julies, Principal at Te Kura Reo Rua o Waikirikiri, discusses the importance of establishing a shared understanding and supportive school culture as the school explores the national curriculum documents.

A shared understanding at Te Kura Reo Rua o Waikirikiri >>
Strengthening our learning community >>

New resources

NZC update issue 2 is addressed to the school leadership team and describes the current range of literacy interventions in New Zealand schools.

The Learn Guide Protect website provides a frame-work that supports schools to create a culture of responsible, safe use of digital technologies. LGP promotes a student-centered approach to teaching and learning about cybersafety and digital citizenship across the curriculum.

Home-School partnerships - curriculum modules include workshops for primary schools that want to inform parents and the community about the curriculum, and to engage them in the ongoing curriculum design process.

The Feet First 2010 project encourages primary school students to walk to school with a caregiver, friend, or organised walking group at least once a week, every week, during term time. Teachers can draw from a range of comprehensive curriculum resources that link to the environmental, social, economic and health benefits of going on foot. This includes lesson ideas, unit plans, HOT topics and inquiry learning.

Rose Hague video on curriculum integration
'My role today is to touch base with the messages and key principles that are coming through in the curriculum that, whenever you design your school curriculum, they are the ones you come back to. The way you pull those together will be informed by the work you are doing with your communities, which will be vastly different.'

National Standards

National Standards: School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project
This is the first report from the National Standards School Sample Monitoring and Evaluation Project 2010-2013, a 3 year monitoring and evaluation project on National Standards implementation in a representative sample of schools

Boards of Trustees webinar series
The Ministry of Education is delivering two series of webinars during November to directly support Boards of Trustees. Starting November 1, a series titled "What Made a Difference?" looks at school planning and reporting, and how Boards can work with the principals and staff to make a positive and sustainable difference to student progress and achievement. Another webinar series will start on November 15 and will cover school charters 2011 and will provide guidance to incorporate National Standards.

For more on webinars, to watch past webinars and for webinar resources, check out the Ministry's website at www.minedu.govt.nz/boards

Middle schooling

Discussion tools

Better than a professional? Students as co-contributors to educational design
Groups of students (years 9 and 10) in two girls’ schools have undertaken small-scale research on views and experiences about learning and school.

School examples

Mark Whitford - Steps in the transition process
In this two-part interview, associate principal Mark Whitford describes Glen Eden Intermediate’s transition programme and how this approach has built positive relationships.

Angela White – Dispositions for learning
Angela White, head of middle school at St Margaret’s College, talks about the approaches they are using to develop learning dispositions with their students.

Snapshot – Principal-led change in technology
This snapshot looks at one principal's recognition of the need for change in programme delivery from manual to technology, and the strategies used to achieve this.

Key Competencies Online

School stories

Roslyn School - Approaching the KCs
Teachers and students designed a set of posters for use across the school to highlight the KCs and make them ‘active’ and personal to the students.

Windsor School – PRIDE challenges
This five-part digital story details the development of the PRIDE challenges programme – a new way to think about homework and ‘learning through doing’ – with students and parents discussing their experiences.

Discussion tools

Discussion tool: PRIDE challenges
This tool draws on the Windsor School approach to home learning, which reflect important aspects of the key competencies.

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