Attitudes and Values Nga Waiaro me nga Uara

Attitudes and values, along with knowledge and skills, are an integral part of the New Zealand Curriculum.
Attitudes consist of the feelings or dispositions towards things, ideas, or people which incline a person to certain types of action.
Attitudes to learning strongly influence the process, quality, and outcomes of both learning and assessment. Teachers' expectations, the support of parents and the community, and students' motivation are all significant factors.
The school curriculum will encourage positive attitudes towards all areas of learning. It will provide challenging learning activities which are relevant to students' experiences and appropriate to their levels of achievement. Schools will give students ongoing constructive feedback about their learning and progress.
Values are internalised sets of beliefs or principles of behaviour held by individuals or groups. They are expressed in the ways in which people think and act. No schooling is value-free. Values are mostly learned through students' experience of the total environment, rather than through direct instruction.
The content of a school's curriculum reflects what is valued by a society and a school community. Although the values held both by individuals and by various groups in society may vary greatly, those which are reflected in the New Zealand Curriculum are supported by most people in most communities.
The school curriculum, through its practices and procedures, will reinforce the commonly held values of individual and collective responsibility which underpin New Zealand's democratic society. These values include honesty, reliability, respect for others, respect for the law, tolerance (rangimarie), fairness, caring or compassion (aroha), non-sexism, and non-racism.
The school curriculum will help students to develop and clarify their own values and beliefs, and to respect and be sensitive to the rights of individuals, families, and groups to hold values and attitudes which are different from their own.
Students will examine the context and implications of their own values and those of others, and the values on which our current social structures are based.
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