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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 presents evidence of the first activity in a sequence of history pedagogy Thinking About History that engaged learners in connecting to their pasts as a way into history.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article uses the story of Whakatauihuihu to help describe how the teaching of mathematics in te reo Māori (the Māori language) has developed. It begins by recounting the enthusiasm of the...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article When education forsakes the middle for the ends or the beginnings, it is deadly. (Grumet, 1995, p. 17)
In her response to the question of “what is basic” to education, Madeleine Grumet argues that...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters 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 Rules are presented as cultural tools that assist socialisation, yet observations revealed that young children subvert adults’ messages. A sociocultural interpretation offers teachers an alternative...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article This article explores how schools might develop a curriculum and pedagogy for the understanding of thinking, rather than the knowing of thinking. It suggests viewing the understanding of thinking...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article In recent years, the cries for teachers to have high expectations for all their students have been heard far and wide—yet, research in the expectancy area carried out at the whole class level has...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The implication that teachers with high expectations will improve student achievement has an appealing logic. However, whether or not the instructional practices and beliefs of teachers having high...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Explicit teaching and modelling are found to be vital among the strategies used by the teacher in this study to support her Year 5 and 6 students in developing self-regulating writing behaviours.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2005_2_034.pdf | Content type: Set article