Curriculum support and review
Evaluation Associates can provide professional learning and development to support schools to embed the principles and practices of the New Zealand Curriculum.
General pedagogy
- Principles and values
- Key competencies
- Effective assessment
- Teaching as inquiry
- e-learning
Curriculum learning areas
Our facilitators can provide support in a range of learning areas. Examples are:
- Developing teacher content knowledge in literacy
- Understanding the two new strands in the technology curriculum
- Teaching specific comprehension strategies
National Standards
Our team of experienced facilitators is knowledgeable about National Standards and can support you to:
- Understand the content of the reading, writing and mathematics standards
- Develop processes, practices and systems for supporting National Standards
- Understand how to make an overall teacher judgment
- Develop systems to promote consistency of overall teacher judgments
- Moderate overall teacher judgments
Here is a recently published article
which discusses the use of evidence from student work in technology to inform overall teacher judgments for National Standards.
Curriculum Review
We provide in-school support for school leaders and teachers to design and review their curriculum.Reviews can be school wide, or focused on a learning area, or a year group.
They may also be about your systems and processes and their alignment to your school's strategic vision.
Following a review you will have excellent baseline information for future planning. You will also have a model for subsequent reviews.
Contact us
for further details.