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Zealand curriculum framework
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NZ curriculum
framework:
Parliament
illustrates essential skills
The essential
skills specified in the New Zealand Curriculum to be developed by
all students across the whole curriculum throughout the years of schooling
can be experienced and taught in role-playing about Parliament, government,
the media and the rule of law.
Teachers will find activities here which illustrate
the New Zealand Curriculum Essential Skills.
In 2006, the NZ Ministry of Education is actively addressing issues
around citizenship as part of overall curriculum review, as well as
specifically in the social
sciences area.
Find
out more expanding and updating the Ministry's November
2005 "essence statement "to ensure that future focused themes,
including social cohesion and citizenship, are apparent throughout
the curriculum".
Choose
for relevant levels
Teachers will be able to select and develop activities for levels
appropriate to spanning the accomplishments typical of junior primary
students through to seventh formers. Learning can be fostered for
advanced level students with activities, which involve interaction
between a number of elements.
The curriculum
defines a number of areas as essential learning about New Zealand
including the origins, development, and operation of systems of government
and the law, and local and national democratic institutions.
The resources presented are designed to help achieve this essential
learning.
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