Links to Ministry strategies
The New Zealand Curriculum is aligned to these Ministry of Education strategies:
Schools Plus
Schools Plus aims to ensure every young person is in education, skills or structured learning, relevant to their needs and abilities, until the age of 18 years. This education or learning may take place in schools, tertiary organisations or in the workplace. The government wants young people to stay at school longer and to leave with higher level qualifications.
The Schooling Strategy 2005–2010
The Schooling Strategy: Making a Bigger Difference for All Students – Hangaia he huarahi hei whakarewa aki i nga tauira katoa is a five-year plan that aims to improve social and academic outcomes for all students, focusing on factors that make the biggest difference for student learning.
Ka Hikitia
Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success: The draft Mãori Education Strategy 2008-2012 (Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success) is a broad reaching draft five-year strategy aiming to transform and change the education sector, ensuring Mãori are able to enjoy education success as Mãori. It's relevant to everyone in education.
Personalising Learning
A 21st century education system must be responsive and flexible to ensure every young person can achieve their potential and be set up for lifelong learning. Personalising learning provides a useful framework to connect the many good things we do now in education while preparing our young people for their future.
Te Whāriki – Early Childhood Curriculum
Te Whāriki: He Whāriki Matauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa – Early Childhood Curriculum is the Ministry's framework for providing for the early learning and development of tamariki/children within a socio-cultural context. It emphasises the learning partnership between kaiako/teachers, parents, and whānau/families.
Team-Up
The Team-Up project for parents and families aims to increase family and community engagement with education and with children's learning.
INSTEP: Inservice Teacher Education Practice
The Inservice Teacher Education Practice (INSTEP) project is a programme designed to improve the quality of inservice teacher education practice, and to support the effectiveness of teachers in schools. Inservice teacher educators have a key role to play in curriculum change.
Best Evidence Synthesis
The Ministry's Best Evidence Synthesis programme aims to bring together the best research into what works to improve educational outcomes, and what can make a bigger difference for the education of all children and young people.
Te Kotahitanga
Te Kotahitanga aims to improve the professionalism, quality, and effectiveness of curriculum delivery for Māori students.
Secondary Futures Hoenga Auaha Taiohi
Secondary Futures Hoenga Auaha Taiohi is a project set up to encourage discussion and debate about the role and purpose of secondary education in New Zealand twenty years from now – creating a mandate for change.
Competent Children, Competent Learners
The Competent Children, Competent Learners project has followed a group of students from early childhood education through into secondary school. It has looked at how students' family resources, early childhood experiences, school experiences, interests and activities outside of school, and relationships with their peers, impact on the development of the students' cognitive, social, communication, and problem-solving competencies.
