01/04/11
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.
01/04/11
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.
31/03/11
This month we are sharing a few resources - some are designed to support Christchurch schools while others support teachers and students learning about the earthquake.
31/03/11
In this talk Kellie McRobert explains how she has developed an e-Learning framework she calls 'e-competencies' and how these have been aligned with the key competencies.
25/03/11
Te Manawa Pou is a free online professional learning and development programme for te reo Māori teachers from English-medium primary schools. Find out more about this programme and how to get involved
14/03/11
This Update focuses on the illustrations that support the National Standards for reading, writing, and mathematics and how teachers can use them.
01/03/11
The staff at Halsey Drive School have been developing a concept based curriculum which features a process of learning (inquiry) and a language of learning (SOLO). There are four videos in this series.
01/03/11
The LEARNZ Canterbury Earthquake virtual field trip website is available for all New Zealand teachers. While the actual field trip (23-25 February) was cancelled all back ground information, images and activities designed for the New Zealand curriculum remain accessible. The ‘Ask-an-Expert’ web forum will continue to be supported by staff from the University of Canterbury Department of Geological Sciences until the end of March. Teachers are invited to register with LEARNZ (if not already) and enrol their class in this trip (all free) to use the ‘Ask-an-Expert’ web forum.
14/02/11
This Update focuses on a research project that explored how the key competencies might be integrated with and developed through the teaching of reading.
09/02/11
A genuine desire to bring learning languages and the key competencies alive in classrooms supports this innovative partnership between two schools.
