Dr. Julia Atkin: Expressing the essence of the NZ Curriculum

'The New Zealand Curriculum is the best in the world' - Dr. Julia Atkin looks back at the different iterations of the New Zealand Curriculum and discusses how the current curriculum requires a shift in perspective: from a teacher of the subject to a teacher of the person.

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Friday, August 26, 2011

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Great explaination of the

Great explaination of the changes in education and provocation of 'essence of education' plus other teasing questions for teachers here in NZ...

A definite re-think

This video really honed in on what the NZ curriculum is and explained and clarified a lot for me. So glad I saw it BEFORE I did my unit plans for next year - A great help and a new perspective, which looking at videos/resources such as the flipped classroom and khanacademy I now understand. I see my subject readily available (and constantly re-defined) on the Internet - I'll be teaching competencies and values first and my subject through that lens.

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