What is the National Curriculum in New Zealand?

What is The National Curriculum? The National Curriculum is two documents that provide a framework for state and state-integrated schools and kura in New Zealand use to develop teaching programmes that are relevant to their students. It sets out what is important in the education of our children.

What are the NZ key competencies?

The New Zealand Curriculum identifies five key competencies:

  • Thinking.
  • Relating to others.
  • Using language, symbols, and texts.
  • Managing self.
  • Participating and contributing.

What is special about education in New Zealand?

According to scores, it has the highest levels of literacy, mathematics, and sciences in the country. The public educational system is one of the best funded in the world; New Zealand offers the highest percentage of public funding in education in the world.

What is te Whariki theory?

Underpinning Te Whāriki is the vision that. children are. competent and confident learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valued contribution to society.

What are the three types of standards that are specific to teacher education?

What are the Different Types of Standards in Education?

  • Content Standards. Broad statements that describe specific content areas that groups of students should learn at each grade level are called CONTENT Standards.
  • Performance Standards.
  • Benchmarks.
  • Opportunity to Learn Standards.
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What are the 8 key competencies?

The revised Key Competences are:

  • Multilingual competence.
  • Personal, social and learning to learn competence.
  • Citizenship competence.
  • Entrepreneurship competence.
  • Cultural awareness and expression competence.
  • Digital competence.
  • Mathematical competence and competence in science, technology and engineering.
  • Literacy competence.

What is the purpose of national standards?

They provide a quality assurance mechanism that tests whether relevant systems are in place to ensure that expected standards of safety and quality are met.