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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
This article explores the shift from "essential skills" to "key competencies" in the school curriculum. Drawing on information gathered from teacher interviews and observations at a New Zealand...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
After three years of schooling, some primary students are behind expected levels for spelling achievement. This study investigated students’ own explanations of their developing understandings about...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How do students understand concepts in school history curriculum and assessment documentation?
"Switched-on" history teachers tap into students' conceptual understandings, promote conversations...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article proposes that if we want students to care about and for the environment they need to develop an understanding of the "big picture"—that is, how the separate elements of a system interact...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Suggestions on how to analyse children's spelling and thus provide effective spelling instruction.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The dynamic and integrated nature of environmental education and the broader concept of education for sustainability require not only the teaching and learning skills of the environmentally educated...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The term constructivism is used very widely and somewhat loosely in education. In this article I aim to clarify the term, which can be used in relation to two quite different theories: one related to...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article