New Zealand Teaching Standards 2026
Knowing the success criteria is essential for student understanding as well as effective feedback. It answers the question: "What does success look like?"
When students co-construct these, it directly activates their agency into the mahi.Learning Objectives vs Activity - what is the difference?
Rewindable Learning
Creative skills helps student become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators.
In children, creativity develops from their experiences with the process, rather than concern for the finished product. Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill, or intelligence. Creativity is not about doing something better than others, it is about thinking, exploring, discovering, and imagining".
Tohatoha ~ Share
We don’t need to be psychologists to understand WHY we share.
We share to make connections with people.
Sharing requires an audience. And not just any old audience - an authentic audience
Most of us have probably experienced that occasion when we were sharing and the other person or people were clearly not interested! As teachers, one of the strangest things we have done over time is ask learners to write for an audience - when the only audience was a teacher with a red pen. Not an authentic audience.
Definition of Authentic Audience: People who choose to listen to you
There are two kinds of audience:
Compulsory - forced to listen to you
Eg when a child reads their work to the class (class has no choice), assembly (classes are forced to be there)
An authentic audience - one who chooses to listen to you
Eg has the remote in their hand, the power to click away quickly, one who pays to be there
