Kia ora and welcome. This is my second unpack of the draft Science curriculum (The first is HERE). I will repeat that I am writing this mostly to get my own thoughts in order, but as I got a lot of messages and interesting discussion from the first post, I guess it is also toContinue reading “Unpacking the Science curriculum – Practices and Capabilities”
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Unpacking the draft Science curriculum
This is my attempt to unpack some of the Draft Science curriculum released in October 2025. You can find the doc HERE. I am writing this primarily to get my own thoughts in order – to try and understand the document and formulate some feedback – as well as generate some discussion as talking thingsContinue reading “Unpacking the draft Science curriculum”
Thinking explicitly about values
These thoughts are mine and do not represent my employer or place of work. Recently, I presented at some conferences about curriculum change. As it turned out, I couldn’t present on the changes, because they hadn’t been released yet. So I instead thought about some recent parent teacher interviews I had been in – andContinue reading “Thinking explicitly about values”
AI cheat sheets
Well, it has been a while!! Back I’m back to blogging, and am in my second term of being back in a classroom. Up till now I hadn’t really been sure about getting back to my blog, and I wasn’t even sure what to write about. Then this past week we were finishing up theContinue reading “AI cheat sheets”
Two months in..
Hiya. Thanks for stopping by, I’ve been quiet on this front lately. It has been an awesome and crazy couple of months to kick start my years leave of absence. I have been in lots of schools, done my first set of labs at the uni and I am behind on my own uni paper!!Continue reading “Two months in..”
Having a play with Jamboard
In preparation for next year when I am having a years leave and doing some contracting, I meet with Anthony from Cyclone who is one of the fabulous humans I will be working with in my various contracting roles. We had a great catch up about many things, including some areas I need to upskillContinue reading “Having a play with Jamboard”
Reflections from PPTA ICT committee meeting May 1
The PPTA ICT committee had an extra meeting in May, to review how online learning is working for different regions, and to offer some opinions and ideas to exec who are continuing to meet with various official parties such as NZQA and the ministry. As usual, these are my thoughts and interpretations, I’m happy toContinue reading “Reflections from PPTA ICT committee meeting May 1”
Reflection from PPTA ICT meeting April 2
We are sure living through interesting time. I hope everyone is as safe and as happy as they can be in their various bubbles around the place. And you are enjoying school holidays – what ever that looks like for you. This morning I attended via zoom the PPTA ICT committee meeting. These are moreContinue reading “Reflection from PPTA ICT meeting April 2”
How do I care but not care…. and trying to find a way through.
For the past two year, I have co-taught a yr 7 digitech module. The first year we (wrongly) based it around the progress outcomes for the new New Zealand digitech curriculum. Last we were ‘encouraged’ to teach the technology standards (posts HERE and HERE) during the module. When it came time for the 2020 timetabling,Continue reading “How do I care but not care…. and trying to find a way through.”
Finding the ‘bright spots’
I found this post in my drafts – And I think it is worth sharing, even if it is unfinished. Hope you are all finding some bright spots. For a multitude of reasons, the last couple of months have been a bit tough in my teachy life. Work stresses including two teachers resigning in theContinue reading “Finding the ‘bright spots’”
ibpossum takes on tech 