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In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Ethics is a valuable way to approach science in primary school because grappling with ethical issues engages students. Focusing on ethics encourages students to extend their understanding of...
| Year published: 2012 | 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
Road safety education for young children requires more than games, rhymes, and worksheets; it needs to be linked to everyday experiences of traffic and addressed "little and often". This article...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The New Zealand Curriculum highlights the importance of learning to learn. This presents practical challenges to schools, in relation to shifts in teaching and learning practices. This article...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When their funds of knowledge and experiences from home and the community are connected to their school learning, students' learning is supported. In this study teachers used "home learning books" to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What supports students to develop their conceptual understanding? Taking part in focus groups helped the Years 9 and 10 Māori and Pasifika students in this study to focus on understanding the...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article