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News of February 2012
NCEA level 3 draft standards
1/3/2012
The level 3 draft standards, matrices, conditions of assessment, and rationales have been updated for all subjects.
Seaweek
28/2/2012
Seaweek 2012 will be held from March 3-11 and comprises a wide range of events, activities, opportunities, competitions and calls to action.
Find out about events and activities in your region, competitions to enter, and teaching and learning resources available.
Resources include those developed by the Science Learning Hub and the NZ Marine Studies Centre, and Environment Canterbury.
Find out more...
Survey about science resources
27/2/2012
NZCER has been contracted by the Ministry of Education for three projects related to improving achievement in science education.
The purpose of these projects is to find more effective ways of supporting schools to implement their science curriculum within the framework of The New Zealand Curriculum.
As part of this programme of work, NZCER is asking primary and secondary teachers to complete a short survey
The questions are about the science resources used in your teaching programmes. Your responses are anonymous and your help is greatly appreciated by the project team.
You can read more about the series of science education projects on NZCER's website.
Snapshot of learning for YouTube
23/2/2012
A teacher explains how a class of year 6 students used YouTube videos to share mathematical strategies on a class blog using the YouTube ‘Add annotations’ feature. This not only reinforced learning but also enabled students to share this learning with parents.
e-Portfolios: School stories
23/2/2012
In these new videos teachers discuss the different blogging applications they use, how e-portfolios are used in the classroom, and the difference it is making to student learning.
Inquiry learning - from knowledge to understanding
22/2/2012
How do you use inquiry learning to move from knowledge to understanding? The teacher in this video clip explains how she carefully focuses her planning, then uses events and provocative statements to make inquiry relevant, and fully engage her students.
Nature of Science
22/2/2012
The nature of science is the overarching and unifying strand in the New Zealand science curriculum document. This area of the Science Learning Hub unpacks this strand and points you to many different places within the Hub where you can find the nature of science – throughout the articles, research, videos, animations and teaching and learning activities in each of the contexts and science stories on the Science Learning Hub.
PB4L makes an incredible difference
22/2/2012
Since its inception, the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) action plan, through delivering Incredible Years parent and teacher programmes across the country, has helped identify a child’s behaviour challenges as a learning challenge and has provided teachers, parents/carers, and whānau with tools to turn negatives into positives.
Using Storybird to improve literacy
20/2/2012
Find out how Storybird, a free digital story writing tool, is making an impact on the literacy development of students, and helping the students to become self motivated and proud of their work. This school story is from the new and developing Tools section of the enabling elearning website
Software for Learning: Comic Master
20/2/2012
Comic Master is a ‘create your own graphic novel’ software designed to excite Year 6 -10 students about reading and writing.
Using a variety of menus and choices, students can create a their own graphic novel based on a text, or 'from scratch'.
Editing options include character art, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, caption boxes, and special effects
Find out more....