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Thanks Graham,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think that there are different levels of discussion that can take place. </div><div><br></div><div>At the end of the day, almost regardless of values, pedagogy, key competencies, balance et al, everyone in my yr 11 Physics class will, at some point, take out a raybox and shine a ray through a glass block, they will trace the beams and label the diagram. We will talk about refraction etc and write a couple of lines of notes. (The lesson has not altered much in the last 15 years of change). They won't, of course, be doing that if there are no waves / light questions in Science at Level 1 and I only get them for the equivalent of 1/3 year! I think also Pandora's box has been opened. Pupils continually ask -"is this on the exam" and like it or not I think we cannot help but be assessment driven</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not too bothered by the FORM of the assesment matrix so much as the content. It will have major implications good and/or bad and I do not want to be caught off guard by the changes as they have a knock down effect on year 10 and 9 teaching for me (the boys I will be teaching this coming year ready for 2010!)</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe you're right and I shouldn't comment until I have read everything.</div><div><br></div><div>I shall see what the meeting tomorrow has to say!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="">David King</div><div style="">Physics HoD</div><div style="">Christ's College</div><div style="">Private Bag 4900</div><div style="">Christchurch</div><div style="">New Zealand</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On 16/11/2008, at 7:26 PM, <a href="mailto:g.foster@clear.net.nz">g.foster@clear.net.nz</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Re new assessment matrix</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I hope before anyone continues to discuss the assessment</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">matrix that we all become very familiar with the revised NZ</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Curriculum. We must remember that the assessment matrix</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">reflects the curriculum, not simply what we would prefer to</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">teach.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Potentially there are big changes ahead for all of us as we</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">implement the new curriculum.</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">There is a re-focusing of teaching and learning that brings</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">the focus more towards values, pedagogy, values, key</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">competencies etc so there is a more balanced view of</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">learning.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">May I strongly recomemnd the NZASE magazine article in</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">September 2006 about "Imroving achievement in the Sciences -</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">what will it take?" and the NZ Curriculum pages on TKI and</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">the Centre 4 website. Also the NZCER website</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"shifting-thinking.org.nz". These changes are necessary as</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Jane Gilbert and Rose Hipkins have maded clear for us. I</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">hope you have read the NZCER publication "Disciplining and</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">drafting or 21st century learning". It is a MUST read before</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">we start commenting.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">At last assessment will not dominate the teaching and</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">learning (hopefully), but teaching and learning will take</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">its rightful place at all levels of student development.</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Before we can comment on the new matrix we need to have a</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">clear understandng of the revised NZ Curriculum and its</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">implications for us all as teachers and for the students.</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Thanks</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Graham Foster</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Director of Science/HoD Physics EGGS </font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Graham Foster</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Director of Science, EGGS</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">AMI Learned Society</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">_______________________________________________</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Phys-teach-talk mailing list</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="mailto:Phys-teach-talk@nzip.org.nz">Phys-teach-talk@nzip.org.nz</a></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://nzip.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/phys-teach-talk_nzip.org.nz" target="_blank">http://nzip.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/phys-teach-talk_nzip.org.nz</a></font></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>