The School curriculum design and review chart (PDF, 278.30 kB) is a tool that can be used in conjunction with The New Zealand Curriculum to help visualise, plan, and monitor the design and review process throughout the implementation period. A poster version of this chart is available from Learning Media customer services – email [email protected] or phone 0800 800 565.
You may find it useful to put the poster version in a prominent place in the staffroom and refer to it regularly. Each question on the chart can be asked at any point over the two years of implementation, and the changing responses to the questions will be a measure of progress.
The following review questions are phrased for use at an initial staff meeting or a meeting with any group of people who are unfamiliar with the document. They are designed to get participants to have a preliminary look at the different sections of The New Zealand Curriculum and to think about them in relation to current practice.
See Vision.
Values
See Values.
Key competencies
What do we know and understand about the key competencies and what they might mean for our students and our school?
See Key competencies and The school curriculum: design and review.
Learning areas
Given the introduction of learning languages as a new learning area, what do we need to do to increase the profile of languages in our school and give students the opportunity to learn another language?
See Learning languages.
Principles
Which of these eight principles will require priority consideration as we design and review our curriculum?
See Principles.
Next - References and acknowledgments
Published on: 18 Dec 2007
