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Assessment of key competencies, literacy and numeracy: Can these be combined?

In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Social studies integrity in an integrated inquiry unit

This article considers the delicate positioning of social studies in a context of curriculum integration. The common primary school practice of integrating social studies as part of a wider inquiry...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Assessment of key competencies, literacy and numeracy: Can these be combined?

In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Grammar in the New Zealand English curriculum: Implications for primary school teachers and teacher educators

In this review of the English area of the New Zealand curriculum, the spotlight is focused on the grammar teachers in primary schools are expected to know and understand in order to effectively teach...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

The active construction of curricula: Primary teachers' perspectives

Interviews with primary teachers revealed questions of control of operational curricula. Schools hold significant power over curricula through their organisation, planning, and assessment...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Primary school visual arts education: Teachers’ perspectives

This article describes my research project which sought to discover generalist primary teachers’ perspectives on including visual arts in their classroom programme, and the factors that supported or...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Joining in the dance: What can be learned from high self-efficacy teachers about teaching dance?

Primary teachers in New Zealand schools are required to teach dance education as part of a balanced classroom programme. This responsibility requires that teachers have positive beliefs...
| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article