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Connecting Curriculum, Linking Learning

Author(s): Barbara Whyte, Deborah Fraser, Viv Aitken

ISBN 978-1-927151-88-4 Teachers and principals know that students learn best when involved, challenged and inspired. An integrated curriculum offers teachers the tools to engage, extend and...

| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts:

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Chapter 2.pdf | Content type: Books

Literacy teaching and learning for the 21st century: Bridging the theory to practice gap

Author(s): Sue McDowall

If literacy learning needs to change for the 21st century, when students need to deal with new formats, such as blogs, sound clips and YouTube, what does this mean in practice in the classroom? This...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

set2010_2_002.pdf | Content type: Set article

Implementing values in the New Zealand curriculum: Four years on

There is limited research to support our understanding of values implementation in New Zealand schools. This article draws on findings from a recent Teaching and Learning Research...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Integrating culturally responsive teaching and learning pedagogy in line with Ka Hikitia

Liz Patara, principal of Clyde Quay School, Wellington, responds to a question from Mark Bradley of Wellington College: "What advice would you give to someone who is new to teaching in Aotearoa New...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

The complexities of moderating student writing in a community of practice

Author(s): Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM, Sally Robertson

This article uses Wenger’s (1998) theory of communities of practice as a framework to describe the complexities of moderation processes when these processes are intended to support teacher learning...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Preparing assessment-capable teachers: What should preservice teachers know and be able to do?

Author(s): Alison Gilmore, Bronwen Cowie, Mary Hill

In a world where schools are accountable for ensuring that all of their students are academically well prepared to enter “the knowledge society”, using assessment in the service of learning is a...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Teachers as learners: Developing a community of learners through inquiry

Author(s): Alison Sewell, Rhys Hill

Letting go of traditional “one-sided” teaching practices and moving towards power sharing and learning with students can be a daunting and challenging process. This article describes one...

| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Centre–parent communication about children’s learning

The effects of teaching practice on parents’ participation in their child’s early education were studied by drawing on a “collective case” of five education and care centres with 100...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

ECFolio_16_2_2012_038.pdf | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Working for positive washback: The potential and challenge of the standards–curriculum alignment project for Learning Languages

The introduction of a revised national curriculum for New Zealand has precipitated a subject-wide project to align requirements for high-stakes secondary school assessments (the National Certificate...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Editorial

Author(s): Mary Hill

Assessment Matters 4 explores questions of assessment practice and how assessment practices known to support learning might be facilitated. Articles discuss: implementing assessment for...