This paper focuses on the use of two tools developed to assist schools to explore changes in teaching practice and design new approaches to learning.

A draft version of the New Zealand Curriculum was released for consultation in 2006. At this time the leaders of a group of "normal" schools (schools that are leading providers of practicum opportunities for students in initial teacher education) approached the New Zealand Council for ...

This paper explores what a focus on the Key Competencies might mean for the learning area of science.

Our Ministry of Education is currently taking stock of its Curriculum Framework, which has served New Zealand since 1993. One element of the Curriculum Framework which is under review is the eight Essential Skills namely: communication skills; numeracy skills; information skills; problem-solving skills; self-management and competitive skills; social and co-operative skills; physical ...

This interim research report provides examples of how some schools have approached the revised curriculum and the Key Competencies, and discusses the processes, tensions, and opportunities of leading and managing curriculum change.

Download the report: Themes from the curriculum implementation case studies. Milestone report for November 2008.

This research report provides examples of how some schools have approached the revised curriculum and the Key Competencies, and discusses the processes, tensions, and opportunities of leading and managing curriculum change.

Throughout the history of schooling in New Zealand the national curriculum has been revised at fairly regular intervals. Consequently, schools are periodically faced with having to accommodate to new curriculum. In between major changes other specifically-focused changes may arise ...

This article provides examples of how some schools have approached the revised curriculum and the Key Competencies, and discusses ways of leading and managing curriculum change.

NZ Education Gazette, 88 (17). Summary from the Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies (CIES).

Download the article: New Zealand curriculum update.

This working paper describes some of the ideas underpinning NZCER’s Future-Focused Issues (FFI) project. There is a variety of ways to interpret what it means to take a “future focus” in education. This paper explains why the FFI project has focused primarily on concepts specifically mentioned in relation to “future focus” in The New Zealand Curriculum: sustainability, enterprise, globalisation and citizenship. It introduces the notion of “wicked problems”—challenges characteristic ...

In New Zealand and in the United Kingdom there is a growing need for school-age childcare. New Zealand has made considerable progress in the provision of OSCAR (Out-of-School care and recreation) in recent years. However, there are still some challenges. The international and comparative research and information outlined in this review shows which areas still need attention. Among these are staff training and qualifications.

This chapter provides a brief overview of the organisation of science in the curriculum within the Asia-Pacific region and highlights the ongoing challenge of achieving the multiple purposes of learning science. Key influences of curriculum change are outlined, including the role research has played in influencing the teaching and learning of science in the region. Finally, challenges for the future are posed.

Chapter in: International Handbook of Educational Research in the ...

Youth transition has been targeted by the New Zealand government as an area for increased policy and programme development and budget support.

The budget and transition package attempts to bring together transition policy and programmes under the rubric of a ‘pathways’ approach to young people moving beyond school.

This acknowledgement of ‘pathways’ recognises the complexity of the school to work transition period in young people’s lives. The notion of ‘pathways’ ...