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The implementation of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) has posed a challenge for curriculum leaders and teachers in all learning areas. These challenges have been...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article describes how a teacher in a high school classroom facilitated her students' acquisition and use of the specialist language of mathematics. Using ideas from second language acquisition,...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article looks at the current organisation of senior secondary curriculum in New Zealand, and raises some key questions that will need to be considered as we seek to develop a senior secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The integration of curriculum has been of interest to educators since before the start of the 20th century. Today, an increasing number of New Zealand schools are embracing a variety of approaches to...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Teachers and teacher-librarians collaborate to establish an ongoing, school-wide literacy programme to teach students the process of research and the procedural skills of information literacy.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Base 6, an inquiry-based curriculum integration secondary programme, is now in its fifth year at Kuranui College in Greytown. This article summarises the data from the first three years of the...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For students to be most successful in their education, schools and teachers need to recognise, plan, and teach for the literacy demands inherent in the learning and assessment activities they...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
While a wide variety of activities can contribute to students’ experiences of carrying out research, comments from secondary school students involved in the Learning Curves project suggest that many...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article discusses the merits of using cancer as a context for teaching about social and ethical issues. It is based on part of a larger research project that investigated the teaching and...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article