School stories
Using data to inform school development
Using data to inform teaching and learning
Principal John Bangma, and Deputy Principal Jenny Washington discuss data driven decision making at Mairehau Primary School.
New resources
NZC update issue 1
This update focuses on engagement with whānau and Māori communities.
National Standards
Accelerating writing progress in years 7 and 8
At level 4, students need to confidently and independently use a wide range of writing strategies and skills to meet the demands of specific learning purposes across the curriculum. This resource is designed to support you to accelerate the writing achievement of your year 7 and 8 students so that they can meet these demands.
Moderation modules
This series of professional learning modules supports teachers develop shared expectations and understanding of student learning and progress through the process of moderation. The modules are designed to inform and promote professional discussions between individual teachers and in staff meetings. They can be used as stand-alone or as a full series.
Variation in school entry dates - implications for timing of overall teacher judgments and reporting
Because children are able to commence school from their 5th birthday onwards, school entry dates vary. This has implications for the timing of overall teacher judgments (OTJs) and consequent reporting in the initial years of schooling.
Middle schooling
Discussion tools
Judith Baenen – Adolescence: time of greatest change
Visiting US middle schooling specialist Judith Baenen speaks about the unique aspects of working with students at this stage of development.
Judith Baenen – Connecting with parents
Judith Baenen speaks about the importance of valuing learning as a partnership and making opportunities to share this with parents.
Q A: Sir Peter Gluckman interview
Guyon Espiner interviews the Prime Minister's Chief Science Adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, about teenagers.
Resources
Science: Thinking with evidence
This set of four standardised tests for middle school students (years 7–10) address an aspect of the key competency 'thinking' as it could be enacted in the science learning area of The New Zealand Curriculum.
Key Competencies Online
School stories
Raumati Beach School – Vision Expo
In this school snapshot, Raumati Beach School show their innovative approach to the community consultation phase of their curriculum development by holding a Vision Expo.
St Margaret's College – Learning dispositions
In these two clips, Angela White, head of middle school, talks about the approaches they are using to develop learning dispositions with their students.
Discussion tools
Images and the key competencies
This tool highlights key ideas raised in the Windley School digital story 'sharing understanding about the key competencies' about the use of images to support key competencies.
Resources
Key competencies in the classroom - student and teacher surveys
NZCER has developed parallel teacher and student surveys to gather indicative data about the learning experiences and teaching practices that support students to strengthen the key competencies.
EDtalks - Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh discusses the benefits of students directing their own learning. Ewan gives some examples, and believes that over time outcomes from student-directed learning can be tied back to the curriculum.
Resource bank: Special education
Review the resources and digital stories in this new resource bank category.
Key competencies and the National Standards
Resources aligned with the National Standards to support teachers to integrate key competencies into literacy and numeracy programmes.
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Published on: 27 Oct 2010
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