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Te Whāriki is a bi-cultural curriculum that sets out four broad principles, a set of five strands, and goals for each strand.It does not prescribe specific subject-based lessons, rather it provides a framework for teachers and early childhood staff (kaiako) to encourage and enable children in developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, learning dispositions to learn how to learn.
Ecological sustainability is part of the values in the Ministry of Education curriculum. [1]The 2009 Government Budget removed funding for Education for Sustainability, effective from December.
Unit and achievement standards represent the two kinds of standards used in NCEA. Both use criterion-based marking, which means students need to meet the specified criteria for each grade level to achieve at that level. However, unit standards are 'competency based' whereas achievement standards derive from the New Zealand Curriculum. [6]
Bullying is a widespread issue in New Zealand schools. In 2007, one in five New Zealand high school students reported being cyber-bullied. [65] In regard to physical bullying, an international study in 2009 found New Zealand had the second highest incidence of bullying out of the 40 countries surveyed. [66]
However, Graeme Ball, the chair of the New Zealand History Teachers' Association, said the new curriculum was "not pushing an agenda or a single narrative". [36] In a discussion on the webpage of the New Zealand Historical Association, historians expressed concerns about the draft as well as acknowledging strengths of the document.
In 2000, he completed a comparative analysis of the New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement for the NZ Education Forum [15] and in 2002 and 2007 he carried out benchmarking work for the New Zealand school curriculum. In 2003 he consulted for the Commonwealth funded enquiry into boys’ education.
Waverley High School was a high school in the town of Waverley, Taranaki, New Zealand. The school, for years 7–13, closed on 20 April 2007. [1] The Whanganui Chronicle reported that the school opened in 1954, and added seventh form education in 1977. [2] It had mentioned a school of the same name in 1943. [3]
The members of the task force were: Brian Picot, a businessman, Peter Ramsay, an associate professor of education at the University of Waikato, Margaret Rosemergy, a senior lecturer at the Wellington College of Education, Whetumarama Wereta, a social researcher at the Department of Maori Affairs and Colin Wise, another businessman. [2]