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Curriculum Update, delivered direct to schools once each term, outlines
recent projects to support teaching and learning, together with information
from current research that could be valuable to schools in their pursuit
of excellence in teaching. This issue looks at The Arts – Ngā
Toi.
Index
The Arts – Ngā Toi
Professional Development
Using Te Kete Ipurangi
Material Resources
Ngā toi
The Arts in Collaboration
Arts Contacts
Linking Learners with Artists in the Community
Contact and Copyright details
The Arts
– Ngā Toi
The Arts
in the New Zealand Curriculum and the parallel document, Ngā
Toi i roto i Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, were published and distributed
in 2000. These statements establish clear directions for schools and kura
kaupapa Māori to implement effective arts programmes. They provide
a central focus for a strong arts education strategy that encapsulates
the vision that arts educators have for the future of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Arts and culture are seen as:
... a seed
bed for the creativity and lateral thinking that drives new ideas.
In the twenty-first century, people who are innovative – who
can think, analyse, design, dream, and express themselves creatively
– will find enormous opportunities open to them in the world
of arts and culture, and work and business.
| The Rt Hon. Helen Clark, quoted in On Arts: ngā
kōrero toi 21, 2001, page 5 |
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The Arts
in the New Zealand Curriculum is based around the following aims:
- to enable students to develop literacies in dance, drama, music,
and the visual arts;
- to assist students to participate in and develop a lifelong interest
in the arts;
- to broaden understanding of and involvement in the arts in New Zealand.
The Ministry
of Education is supporting the arts by providing:
- national co-ordinators to lead the four disciplines and ngā
toi;
- professional development assistance through regional, Pasifika, and
online opportunities;
- secondary arts co-ordinators in schools, in the regions, and nationally;
- material resources for each discipline;
- online assistance through Unwrapping the Arts on Te Kete Ipurangi
(TKI), the Ministry's online learning centre;
- exemplars at levels 1 to 5 in each discipline;
- researched evaluation of professional development programmes;
- support for partnerships between schools and key arts sector groups.
The
focuses of the national assessment strategy are:
- setting specific and challenging goals with students;
- fostering partnerships focused on learning;
- using assessment information to improve learning;
- developing high-quality assessment tools;
- developing teachers' assessment literacy;
- informing strategic planning.
In this issue, you can read about the innovative and practical ways in which teachers, schools, and communities are working with the new arts curriculum.
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