New Zealand Curriculum News

Improving Education Outcomes for Pacific Learners

2012-05-23T01:26:24+00:00

This is ERO’s third national evaluation report focusing on how schools engage with Pacific learners and act to improve their achievement outcomes. The report is based on information gathered from 302 schools from a range of deciles, roll sizes and locations across the country.

Growing professional learning communities

2012-05-21T21:55:26+00:00

Angela White, Head of the middle school at St Margaret's College, outlines her school's approach to supporting pedagogical change. Angela expands on the steps involved in introducing the change, integrating the change, and then sustaining the change.

Review of CIAGE

2012-05-16T23:54:50+00:00

A discussion paper on Career, Information, Advice, Guidance and Education (CIAGE) has been released and The Ministry of Education are seeking feedback. The purpose of this discussion paper is to better understand what happens now in CIAGE, test the understanding of problems and barriers to improvement, and seek views on how we can improve CIAGE for learners and their families.

The discussion paper and response process can be accessed online.

The deadline for responses is 5pm on 15 June 2012.

Should you wish to contact the Ministry of Education to discuss this please email: Career.Review@minedu.govt.nz

Raising student achievement through school planning

2012-04-25T21:56:48+00:00

NZC Update 20 focuses on the place of school planning within school-wide self-review.

The learning to learn principle

2012-05-10T05:16:22+00:00

NZC Update 21 focuses on the New Zealand Curriculum principle of students learning to learn.

Leading from the middle: educational leadership for middle and senior leaders

2012-05-08T22:30:41+00:00

This resource describes the qualities, practices, and activities middle and senior leaders need to lead in ways that enhance learner outcomes.

Access Leading from the middle on the Educational Leaders site >>

Science in the New Zealand Curriculum: Years 5 to 8

2012-05-02T04:29:23+00:00

ERO has evaluated the quality of science teaching and learning, its place within the curriculum, and its relationship to literacy and numeracy teaching, focusing on years 5 to 8 in 100 schools.

Ruia - Teacher appraisal for Māori learners' success

2012-05-01T09:15:16+00:00

A resource for principals and other school leaders who want appraisal to lead to deep learning for teachers and to educational success for Māori students.

Anzac Day collection 2012

2012-04-23T12:06:31+00:00

Each year NZ On Screen adds to its collection of ANZAC resources – a great collection for social science teachers.

Reporting student achievement for learners with special education needs

2012-04-16T20:47:40+00:00

This March 2012 update provides guidance for Board of Trustees chairpersons and principals for reporting learner achievement, for learners with special education needs.

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Key-information/Fact-sheets/Special-education-needs >>

The primary school curriculum: Assimilation, adaptation, transformation

2012-04-13T00:45:18+00:00

This report looks at differences across the sector in terms of progress on implementation and includes discussion of issues such as how schools are prioritising different aspects of the NZC, shifts in classroom -based formative assessment, use of ICT to support the school curriculum and the challenges of creating a curriculum to meet the learning needs of all students.

View the report >>

Leading eLearning at St Margaret's College

2012-04-11T22:59:18+00:00

Brian Woods, the digital learning facilitator at St Margaret's College, outlines their approach to supporting students and teachers with eLearning. The process was disrupted by the Christchurch earthquake which prompted further thinking about the place of eLearning for students and teachers.

Watch the video >>

Aligning the standards in mathematics at St Hilda's Collegiate

2012-04-11T22:55:17+00:00

Anna Cox, head of mathematics at St Hilda's Collegiate, describes how she worked with her department to align the standards in mathematics. The benefits were a greater emphasis on thinking and independent use of mathematics.

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Selecting texts for students in years 4 to 8

2012-04-03T00:15:30+00:00

NZC Update 19 introduces the new guidelines Selecting Texts for Students in Years 4 to 8.

Breaking down the notion of a subject based curriculum

2012-03-19T22:45:07+00:00

Paul Enright, Head of social sciences at Logan Park High School, discusses a new way to create senior school courses. He provides the example of an environmental studies course which draws standards from geography, education for sustainability, and earth science making an assessable course at three levels.

View Breaking down the notion of a subject based curriculum at Logan Park High School

Te Mangōroa Māori achieving education success as Māori

2012-03-14T22:45:30+00:00

Te Mangōroa is a resource for English-medium schools. It is a portal to stories, reports, statistics, and reviews from across TKI and other sites that reflect effective practices to support Māori learners to achieve education success as Māori.

Visit Te Mangōroa >>

Smart planning for NCEA

2012-03-13T23:56:49+00:00

Iain McGilchrist, Head of English at John McGlashan College, discusses planning for NCEA. After investigation, his team decided to design their programmes so that the external assessment preparations fed into the internal assessments.

View the video in the media gallery >>

The inclusion principle

2012-03-05T21:48:01+00:00

This Update focuses on inclusion. It highlights presence, participation, and achievement as key aspects for success for all students, in particular those with special educational needs.

Supporting mathematics learning

2012-02-20T09:50:46+00:00

This Update is for the school leadership team. It discusses initiatives designed to support student achievement in mathematics and illustrates how schools are addressing the needs of students who are not progressing as expected. It will help you as a team to review how your school currently addresses underachievement in mathematics.

Inquiry learning - from knowledge to understanding

2012-02-17T01:37:34+00:00

How do you use inquiry learning to move from knowledge to understanding?

Vic Hygate, Windsor School, explains how she carefully focuses her planning, then uses events and provocative statements to make inquiry relevant and fully engage her students.