Curriculum Updates
Curriculum Update, delivered direct to schools, describes recent initiatives to support teaching and learning, together with information from current research that could be valuable to schools in their pursuit of excellence in teaching.
All issues of Curriculum Update can be found in the
Governing and Managing Community
These issues focus on assessment.
Curriculum Update 55
Literacy and Numeracy: Towards More Effective Teaching Practice
Read success stories of schools that have strengthened the literacy and numeracy components of their teaching practice and consequently
raised the achievement of students. This Update also outlines support available for teaching English as a second language and the support
networks for literacy and numeracy.
Curriculum Update 54
Using Assessment Tools / Te Whakamahi i Ngā Pūnaha Aromatawai
Learning happens as a result of what teachers and students think, do, and talk about. Assessment for learning is based both on what
teachers notice informally and on the information that they choose to collect and record about learning.
Curriculum Update 50
Literacy
This issue of the online version of Curriculum Update focuses on literacy in English and on the literacy aspect of the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy.
Curriculum Update 47
Assessment – Te Aro Matawai
This Curriculum Update provides information about developments in assessment, the research that underpins them, and the new tools that
are being developed. These tools will help teachers to gather, analyse, and use high-quality assessment information in order to make a
difference to student learning outcomes.
Additional resources
Planning for Better Student Outcomes
This resource provides key questions, examples and resources to assist in the process of thinking, planning, and managing strategically for school improvement and will support school charter development.
Publications – What Matters Most? and Planning for Better Student Outcomes
This page contains What Matters Most? and is an index to all issues of Planning for Better Student Outcomes. These publications provide further information about gathering and using evidence to determine the priorities for teaching and learning and include specific advice on planning and reporting requirements for schools.
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