draft to final The New Zealand Curriculum: Draft for Consultation 2006
| The New Zealand Curriculum
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The principles upon which all school curricula must be based include:
- excellence
- learning to learn
- cultural heritage
- equity
- connections
- coherence.
| The principles upon which all school curricula must be based include:
- high expectations
- learning to learn
- community engagement
- Treaty of Waitangi
- cultural diversity
- inclusion
- coherence
- future focus.
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The key competencies are:
- thinking
- using language, symbols, and texts
- managing self
- relating to others
- participating and contributing.
| The key competencies are unchanged.
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New Zealand students are encouraged to value:
- excellence
- innovation, enquiry, and curiosity
- diversity
- respect
- equity
- community and participation
- care for the environment
- integrity.
| Students will be encouraged to value:
- excellence
- innovation, inquiry, and curiosity
- diversity
- equity
- community and participation
- ecological sustainability
- integrity
and to respect themselves, others and human rights.
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The learning areas are: arts, English, learning languages, mathematics and statistics, health and physical education, science, social sciences and technology.
| The specified learning areas are unchanged, but each has been revised to incorporate consultation feedback. English, te reo Mãori, and New Zealand Sign Language are identified as official languages.
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A section on designing a school curriculum is included.
| This section has been updated to capture the intent of the curriculum and provide clarity to schools on what is required and what is discretionary.
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No explicit statement is included about requirements.
| Explicit requirements are stated for boards of trustees.
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Published on: 17 Mar 2008
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