Posts tagged ‘Curriculum’
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Backward Step for the Arts and Media Studies in Education
Announcements, Curriculum, Discussion, TeachingAccording to subject associations and teacher unions, the focus of the New Zealand curriculum and has just narrowed considerably.
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An Evaluation of Professional Development to Support the Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum
Discussion, TeachingAt a time when funding has been cut for the provision of arts advisors it’s important to remind ourselves why the Ministry of Education in 2003 felt it necessary to make this provision…
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Year 13 Drama Study Guide by Jane Luton and Marthy Watson
Books, CurriculumOn Sale Now! Good News for Teachers of Level 3 Drama from ESA. This Study Guide covers all the NCEA Level 3 Drama Achievement Standards.
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The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum
Curriculum, DiscussionThis Ministry of Education Background briefing paper from 1999 introduces a rationale for Drama. Interestingly in the light of this week’s Mantel of the Expert Conference it makes no mention of MOTE or the visits of Dorothy Heathcote to New Zealand!
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Drama level 2 Theatre for Change
Curriculum, NCEA, TeachingAchievement Standard 90302 Version 2 Apply knowledge of a drama/theatre form or period through performing a role within a presentation This moderated resource from the Director of Performing Arts at Baradene College, Verity Davidson, draws ont he work of Wan Smolbag Theatre Company in Vanuatu and Uganda Theatre . This is the first of a number of contrubutions from executive members of Drama New Zealand
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Drama Level 1.5 – ‘ Project Making Faces’
Curriculum, NCEA, TeachingA new premoderated drama resource from Baradene College Director of Performing Arts, Verity Davidson. Verity is the director of publications for Drama new Zealand
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Hard Core Drama by Susan Battye
Curriculum, NCEA, TeachingOnce upon a time in a land not too far away, someone said that drama ‘was for dummies’ – a ‘soft option’. Not any more. Drama has moved to centre stage to become ‘hard core’ drama. It may surprise many people to know that there are currently more students engaged in studying Drama as a subject that any other performing arts form.
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An Evaluation of Professional Development to Support the Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum
Curriculum, DiscussionAt a time when funding has been cut for the provision of arts advisors it’s important to remind ourselves why the Ministry of Education in 2003 felt it necessary to make this provision…
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Music Education in a New Key: The Dissonance of Competence, Connectedness, Culture and Curriculum
Volume 1The worth of teaching and learning in music is again under scrutiny. Challenges to the canon of so-called western art music, the demands of all cultures to be heard musically as well as politically, the rise of music technologies, and the requirements of the soon to be implemented (2010) document The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) present a mish-mash of constructs.
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Kiwi Kids Can Fly: Making Connections with Devised Drama, the Key Competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum and Classroom Practice
Volume 1This article examines the connections between the fundamental principles of devising theatre, the key competencies in the New Zealand curriculum and classroom practice. It draws on the research undertaken at Westburn Primary School, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006 and 2007 and the literature on devised theatre.
