The New NCEA curriculum
We attend a workshop at Epson Girls to learn how to plan for the newNCEA roll out next year. We have to teach the 4 new unit standards as well as the common assessmt to get 10 numeracy credits. How do you do it all in one year? The were three options to do the new NCEA. one was thematic, the other was to do one unit per term that is worth 5 credits Epson girls decided that they will do the common assessment in year 10 and only do one external at the end of the year for 5 credits and rather focus on level 2 in year 11. students who do not pass the common assessemnt in year 10 will be in a special class in year 11 and do the common assesment in year 11. St Cutbert has dumped the NCEA and Common assessment and write their own. Then they have control who pass and everyone will pass. Their argument is that it to much statistic based and therefore not good enough to prepare their students for Calculus in year 12 and 13.This is strange that they refuse to do the new NCEA because many of ...