NCEA Resource Kit
Course Planning using the New Zealand
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Guides,
Standards and Assessment Resources
Where do you start?
New Zealand
Curriculum
Use the NZC as a starting point
Teaching and Learning
Guidelines
Available for most senior secondary subjects
Standards
Define the learning outcomes to be assessed
Assessment
Resources
Support the assessment of standards with
some examples of student responses
Where do I find The New Zealand Curriculum?
• The New Zealand Curriculum is online at
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-documents/TheNew-Zealand-Curriculum
•“The New Zealand Curriculum is a clear statement of what we
deem important in education. It takes as its starting point a vision
of our young people as lifelong learners who are confident and
creative, connected, and actively involved. It includes a clear set
of principles on which to base curriculum decision making. It
sets out values that are to be encouraged, modelled, and
explored. It defines five key competencies that are critical to
sustained learning and effective participation in society and that
underline the emphasis on lifelong learning.”
Where do I find the Teaching and Learning Guides?
•These are being progressively published on the TKI website
http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/
Teaching and Learning Guides
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The guides help teachers develop quality teaching and learning
programmes at levels 6–8 of The New Zealand Curriculum
(2007).
They have been written by experienced secondary teachers,
school support services advisors, and other curriculum, teaching,
and learning experts, often with input from interested sector
organisations.
The Ministry is in partnership with teachers who have the
confidence, capacity and capability to develop useful and
credible resources for their colleagues.
The guides should be understood as resources rather than
syllabuses or prescriptions.
They are produced in HTML. They have been designed to be
viewed online. Word and PDF versions are not available at this
time.
Teaching and Learning Guides
Each subject guide describes:
•the big ideas around which a learning programme might be
based
•clear curriculum progression at levels 6–8
•how a learning programme might be structured
•how the subject concerned relates to the wider New Zealand
curriculum and to NCEA
•why a student should consider taking the subject and what
learning pathways it might open up for them.
Teaching and Learning Guides
The guides can also help teachers:
•recognise that language, culture and identity count and productive
partnerships are critical to Māori and Pasifika student achievement
•better understand the relationship between curriculum, pedagogy, and
assessment
•think about the role their subject can play in terms of the NZC vision,
values, and key competencies
•make connections between their subject and other senior subjects and
learning areas
•see ways of involving students in programming decisions, particularly
those that relate to contexts for learning
•question assumptions that may be constraining curriculum design in
the senior school.
Timelines
Teaching and Learning Guides
Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides proposed publication schedule
Learning Area
Social Sciences
Part 1 – available now
Part 2 - available now
Sciences
Part 1 – available now
Part 2 – September 2011
Mathematics and statistics
Part 1 – available now
Part 2 – available now
Learning Languages (including Te
Reo Maori)
Part 1 – available now
Part 2 – November 2011
Health and Physical Education
Part 1 – July 2011
Part 2 – November 2011
Technology
Part 1 – available now
Part 2 – November 2011
The Arts
Part 1 – September 2011
Part 2 – February 2012
English
Part 1 – September 2011
Part 2 – February 2012
Additional subjects:
Accounting;
Agricultural and Horticultural
Science
Part 1 – available now
Part 1 – August 2011
Part 2 – November 2011
Part 2 - November 2011
How to find registered standards
www.nzqa.govt.nz
•Click the NCEA radio button on the Search box on the NZQA
Home page. Then press ‘GO’
Either enter standard
number or subject to
get list of standards
Select the type of
standard to search e.g.
unit or achievement
standard
Select the level
How to find assessment resources
www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/alignment-standards.php
Scroll down the
page to select
subject.
Once subject page
opens, click onto
appropriate ‘Level’.
A list of assessment
resources will be
shown.
Samples of annotated student responses
www.nzqa.govt.nz
Click onto
‘NCEA
subject
resources’
Select a
subject
Then select a specific resource
Where do I find the draft Level 2 standards and
assessment activities, and draft Level 3 standards?
http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/alignment-standards.php
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Level 2 draft standards as well as draft assessment resources
for new or significantly changed internal standards and sample
assessment resources for external standards, have now been
published on TKI. The assessment activities are working drafts
only and are watermarked as "Drafts for School Planning
Purposes".
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The first drafts of Level 3 standards are now available on the TKI
website. Online consultation on Level 3 draft standards will
take place from 8 August to 25 September 2011.
Mini Myth
1. There are samples of student responses available for all
newly aligned Level 1 standards on the NZQA website
• Annotated exemplars are available on the NZQA website for
those new or significantly changed standards, as identified
by the Ministry of Education, where suitable student work
was available.
• As more student work becomes available, through the
moderation cycle, further exemplars will be developed.
Mini Myth
2. Assessment Resources on the TKI website for Level 2
labelled “Draft for Planning purposes” are ready to be used
for assessment with students.
• No, they are to help with planning your courses and
illustrate the types of assessment methods that could be
used when the standards are registered in 2012.
• ‘Final published’ Level 2 assessment resources that can be
used for the assessment of students will be available in
December on the TKI website.
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