Key concepts and big ideas for teaching and learning programmes

Essential considerations for programme design should:

enact the department’s vision and philosophy for the learning area and the school’s vision and goals
meet the needs of all students, building on students’ prior knowledge, skills, and/or practices, including pathways (careers education)
be relevant to the students, their whānau and their communities
be guided by the vision, values, principles, and key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum (pages 8–12), the outcomes from the learning area intent (pages 22–23), and the HPE achievement objectives
include concepts such as the interdependence of the health and physical education underlying concepts (hauroa, socio-ecological perspectives, health promotion, and attitudes and values), which underpin teaching and learning in health education, physical education, and home economics
focus on the big ideas in the subject areas:
Health education:
- the determinants of health
- well-being
- resilience
- social justice
- critical thinking in action
- health promotion – taking action
Physical education:
- movement and its connection with well-being
- understanding the body
- the joy of movement
- personal challenge
- movement in society
- teamwork and leadership
Home economics:
- well-being
- the determinants of health
- social justice
- sustainability
- health promotion.

Learning pathways (progressions)

Does this draft programme include some of the capabilities that we want our students to have as they graduate from level 6 through to level 8?

Last updated August 13, 2013