Curriculum and assessment
Schools have adopted different strategies in their attempts to cope with all the recent curriculum changes, and teachers have different views on the new curriculum documents—but how new is new?
Australian schools and teachers have been experiencing a tremendous "climate of change" over the past few years. This survey looked at how much teachers knew about the "key" competencies approach which is new to many of them.
Teachers of Higher School Certificate English in New South Wales are having to change their perception of the "rules of the game" relating to teaching for the subject or teaching for examination results. This article will strike a chord with others dealing with curriculum reform.
Without a cohesive secondary school entrepreneurship programme, New Zealand could be selling secondary school students short. Should enterprise education be limited to balance sheets and budgets? Why not teach creative thinking in enterprise?
Civics education is currently "flavour of the month" in Australia, as schools come to grips with a new curriculum, Discovering Democracy. Can schools overcome student apathy regarding politics?
Food technology in New Zealand's new technology curriculum is more than cooking and food handling. Here are some practical ways of implementing and assessing food technology.
Six key school and teacher characteristics have been identified as having a significant influence on the music education of Australian state school children.
An Australian view about appropriate middle schooling principles and practices.
The introduction of information skills into the New Zealand Curriculum has signalled a change in direction for education from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. However, before teachers will commit themselves to use this learning process they need evidence that the teaching of these skills will achieve the desired outcomes.
Faced with the tom-tom beat of competitive marketing, there is a strong interest in what makes for a "good" school rather than a "hyped up" school. This study looks at how two value-added schools have made a difference to student achievement even under the most difficult circumstances.
