School case studies (archived)

Introduction

This section of this report includes the six school case studies. These cases studies are all located within the context of a desire by the schools to review curriculum and pedagogy and to continue shifting practice towards student-centred approaches.

The first case study describes a student-centred model of exploring the key competencies adopted by a team at Takapuna Normal Intermediate School. The next two case studies describe whole-school planning models: the development of an umbrella approach to curriculum planning at Karori Normal School; and the approach taken towards increasing the authenticity of learning experiences at North East Valley Normal School. The next three case studies focus on how whole-school professional development (PD) was organised to support teachers to develop an understanding of the key competencies. The Hillcrest Normal School case study describes how action learning cycles were used to develop key competency exemplars. The final two case studies of Central Normal School and Kelburn Normal School focus on the PD processes used to develop a shared view of the key competencies and ideas about assessing the key competencies. Table 5 presents an overview of the approaches used at each school.

Use the school names in Table 5 to link to each case study.

Table 5: The focus of key competency integration at the case study schools

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