Engaging examples of practice

These examples of practice illustrate the ICC dimensions in action:

Story 1: Immersion learning, right from day one

• Focus key competencies: Managing self; participating and contributing
• Learning area context: Learning languages
• Year 9

Story 2: Primary students think about being healthy

• Focus key competencies: Thinking (lateral thinking, critical thinking)
• Learning area context: Health and physical education
• Years 2–3

Story 3: Creating a Pasifika dance performance

• Focus key competencies: Thinking (embodied, meta-cognitive, creative)
• Learning area context: Arts
• Years 9–13

Story 4: Analysing character and relationships in the picture book A Pocket Full of Kisses

• Focus key competencies: Relating to others; using languages, symbols, and texts
• Learning area context: English
• Year 4

Story 5: Investigating "like a scientist"

• Focus key competencies: Participating and contributing; thinking (like a scientist)
• Learning area context: Science
• Years 7–8

Story 6: Should Waitangi Day be kept as our national holiday?

• Focus key competencies: Relating to others; thinking (critical thinking/values clarification)
• Learning area context: Social sciences
• Year 9

Story 7: Thinking about sustainable food preparation

• Focus key competencies: Thinking (system thinking); participating and contributing
• Learning area context: Health and physical education (home economics)
• Year 12

Story 8: Road safety as a context for statistical inquiry

• Focus key competencies: Using language, symbols, and texts; participating and contributing
• Learning area context: Mathematics and statistics
• Year 10

Story 9: Helping young children shape casual explanations for movement

• Focus key competencies: Thinking (cause and effect); using language, symbols, and texts
• Learning area context: Science
• Year 0

Story 10: Song writing for the Play it strange competition

• Focus key competencies: Participating and contributing; thinking (creative)
• Learning area context: Arts
• Years 12–13

Story 11: A critical encounter with the nature of games

• Focus key competencies: Using language, symbols, and texts; relating to others/managing self
• Learning area context: Health and physical education
• Years 5–6

Story 12: Engaging with historical significance by creating sound walks

• Focus key competencies: Thinking (historical thinking); participating and contributing
• Learning area context: Social sciences; history
• Year 11

Story 13: Being a food technologist

• Focus key competencies: Managing self; thinking (creative)
• Learning area context: Technology
• Year 9

Story 14: Critical thinking about advertising claims

• Focus key competencies: Thinking (evidence-based); managing self
• Learning area context: Science
• Year 11

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