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Te Kete Ipurangi: Vertical Curriculum Planning
Sarah Hynds explains how her whole school plans together across the levels of the curriculum to increase collegiality. They also wanted to ensure that the transitions between the levels of the curriculum were smooth and that teachers...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: The Thinking Competency
Lisa Smith explains how Rototuna School in New Zealand helps teachers develop rich understandings of the key competencies. This approach involves engaging with research, exploring personal experience, building a framework of the language...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: E Competencies and Key Competencies
Kellie McRobert outlines some work that has been done linking e-Learning and the key competencies. In this talk Kellie McRobert explains how she has developed an e-Learning framework she calls 'e-competencies' and how these have been...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Te Ao Whanui Local Participation, Global Confidence
In this curriculum conversation Anne Sturgess discusses a social studies programme at Edgecumbe College. She is joined by students who explain how Te Ao Whanui - local participation, global confidence, supported them to be autonomous...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Shared Vision With a Twist
In this curriculum conversation Stuart Armistead discusses how the collaborative forming of the Stanley Avenue Learner guides all learning and teaching at his school. Particularly Stuart tells us how this vision is integral in the use of...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Mantle of the Expert
In this curriculum conversation Gay Gilbert and Lynette Townsend discuss how they have used 'the mantle of the expert' as a different approach to inquiry learning. Mantle of the Expert is a form of inquiry which uses drama to step...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Key Competencies in Leadership
Mary Anne Murphy links the key competencies with the skills and qualities of leadership. She challenges leaders to embody the key competencies with the same expectations we have for our students.
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Universal Design for Learning
Learning facilitator Chrissie Butler discusses Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for looking at how we plan our goals, our teaching methods, the resources and materials we use, and the way we design assessments. UDL...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Inquiry Learning From Knowledge to Understanding
How do you use inquiry learning to move from knowledge to understanding? Vic Hygate, from Windsor School in Christchurch, explains how she carefully focuses her planning, then uses events and provocative statements to make inquiry...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Success for All
Lynne Silcock from the Ministry of Education discusses how Universal Design for Learning theory and technology together can support success for all.
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Effective Communication for Learners With Special Ed. Needs
Juanita Corbett from Arohanui Special School discusses communication as a vital tool that we use with our students every day. She challenges us to take a step back and think about how we communicate with our students and how we support...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Our Inquiry Framework
Sylvia Park's inquiry planning team support all teachers to develop authentic engaging learning for their students. In this story the planning team and students discuss what inquiry looks like in their school.
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Creating a Positive Learning Culture
Kathryn Hutchison from Wellington East Girls' College discusses how she creates a positive learning culture. She explains how exemplars, modeling, collaboration, and learning conversations are integral to helping students learn how to...
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Growing the Key Competencies Through the Arts
Louise Field from Somerville Intermediate highlights the importance of the arts curriculum area for growing the key competencies. [3:10]
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Te Kete Ipurangi: Thinking and Reading Comprehension
Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.