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ERIC Number: EJ1257728
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-2077-2327
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Never Had It but Now I Have to Teach It: A Study into How Primary Teachers Implemented A New Curriculum Requirement in Teaching Practice
Sexton, Steven S.
Science Education International, v31 n2 p172-178 Jun 2020
In 2017, a change to the national curriculum of New Zealand required primary teachers to implement a new component into the Technology area of The New Zealand Curriculum. This was to be fully implemented by the start of the 2020 school year. However, unless this was a personal area of ability, no primary teacher in New Zealand has been trained or prepared for this new addition. This study reports on how one school worked to implement this new requirement into their teaching practice. This study noted that for the participating teachers, teaching an unknown area of the curriculum required emotional work, political work, and pedagogical work. Over the course of the 2019 school year, these teachers in collaborative professional development (PD) sessions explored, experimented with, and enacted digital technology. Results from this study showed that students' learner was enhanced through teachers' meaningful and purposeful integration of digital technology in their programs of learning. This study offers insight into how primary teachers were able to work in authentic collaborative relationships to support each other in how to implement a new curriculum requirement that was not supported by any ministerial PD.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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