Resources
The following links provide assessment information and professional support for teachers of learning languages.
Assessment and professional support
Follow links to specific language subject areas.
Assessment Online
- This key community covers assessment in the classroom, effective use of evidence, and reporting to families and whānau. It offers news, assessment tools and resources, research, a glossary, FAQ, and related links.
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Consider the evidence promotes 'evidence-driven decision making for secondary schools' and supports secondary educators in making best use of evidence to improve student achievement.
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Directions for Assessment in New Zealand, a paper by Michael Absolum, Lester Flockton, John Hattie,
Rosemary Hipkins, and Ian Reid provides an overview of assessment in the secondary school context and argues that student understanding of assessment is a key to greater ownership of learning. (This paper is available as a download from the Assessment position papers page.)
The site provides information about curriculum and assessment matters and professional development and includes links, contact information, and resources.
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Resourcing ideas
The following references will help you to plan teaching and learning activities for language learning.
Services to Schools supports educators by providing professional learning, advice, and quality resources to inspire and inform student learning, foster their love of reading, and develop their knowledge of culture and heritage.
Students can go to this website to find useful, accurate, online information. Librarians from all over New Zealand are available each weekday between 1 pm and 6 pm to help students search online. To use AnyQuestions, students must be attending a New Zealand primary, intermediate, or secondary school or being home-schooled.
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Ministry of Education websites
As well as the HTML version of The New Zealand Curriculum, this interactive site offers a variety of support and strategies, news updates, digital stories of schools’ experiences, and archived material relating to development of the curriculum.
This site includes a translation into English of the main sections of the draft marautanga. Only learning levels 1, 4, and 6 have been translated in the learning areas.
This web page supports the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA). From this page you will find resources to support internally assessed level 1, level 2, and level 3 achievement standards aligned to The New Zealand Curriculum (2007).
Ka Hikitia is a cross-agency strategy for the education sector. It sets out how we will work with education services to achieve system shifts in education and support Māori learners and their whānau, hapū and iwi to achieve excellent and equitable outcomes and provides an organising framework for the actions we will take.
This Ministry of Education professional development strategy focuses on improving outcomes for Māori students in English-medium schools. This strategy supports:
This community for English-medium schools is a portal to stories, reports, statistics, and reviews that reflect effective practices to support Māori learners to achieve education success as Māori. Te Mangōroa contains practical illustrations of what Ka Hikitia - Accelerating Success means for teaching and learning.
This section on Tāhūrangi links to information and resources about learning contexts and approaches that support Pacific students.
The 2007 New Zealand Curriculum identifies five key competencies—the capabilities people have and need to develop to live and learn today and in the future.
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Other government agency websites
BES is a collaborative knowledge-building strategy designed to strengthen the evidence base that informs education policy and practice in New Zealand.
Last updated December 16, 2024
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