Keeping up with changes to NCEA

• NEW NCEA website

  • English Learning (incl cur'm matrix Levels 6-8)

  • English - Teaching (includes sample course outlines)

  • English - The new standards (DRAFT for pilot schools)

  • DRAFT Literacy (and Numeracy) Assessment Standards

• NCEA Change Pack Overview​ (2019)

• Kōrero Mātauranga - updates and conversation

Achievement Standards

• National Moderator's Report - March 2019

• Achievement Standards (Internal and External) - Level 1

• Achievement Standards (Internal and External) - Level 2 

• Achievement Standards (Internal and External) - Level 3

• Exams and Exemplars for Externals - Level 1

• Exams and Exemplars for Externals - Level 2

• Exams and Exemplars for Externals - Level 3

• Tasks, Conditions, Matrix - Level 1

• Tasks, Conditions, Matrix - Level 2

• Tasks, Conditions, Matrix - Level 3

• Exemplars for Internals - all levels

• Clarifications - Internal Achievement Standards - all levels

• Fantastic tasks!

Other Important NZQA Stuff

• Literacy and Numeracy Requirements (Achievement and Unit Standards)

• Literacy Requirements for University Entrance

• How to unpack an Achievement Standard

Not Important But Blimmin' Useful!

• Check if that movie is right for your class (Common Sense Media)

• Get your students blogging (individually or as a class)

• TedEd - create your own lessons or use what's there (great if you're going to be away)

Links to the English Teacher Community

• New Zealand Association of Teachers of English - NZATE

• English Online

• English Online - Getting on the Mailing List (so that you can take part in the forum) - once you've signed up, send emails to secondaryenglish@lists.tki.org.nz 

• English Online's Teacher Resource Exchange

Unit Standards

​LEVEL 1

• Fields, Subfields, Domains (for your English programme) explained - Level 1

• Level 1 Literacy via UNIT standards - what's involved?​

• Clarifications of Unit Standards for Level 1 Literacy (26622, 26624 and 26625)

• Exemplars for Level 1 Literacy Standards (26622, 26624 and 26625)

• Information and Resources for Level 1 Literacy Standards (26622, 26624 and 26625)

• Thematic Learning Modules (or you could just check out Drive Resources- just sayin'!)

• Literacy (and Numeracy) for Level 1 via Unit Standards

• Suggested programme for Level 1 literacy through Unit Standards.

• Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy

ALL LEVELS

• Unit Standards - Reading Domain

• Unit Standards - Work and Study Skills Domain

• Unit Standards - Writing Domain

• Unit Standards - Interpersonal Communications Domain

• Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy

  • Learning Progressions Resources (Handy as anything!)​

• For EAP see below.

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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES (EAP)

• Unit Standards - English for Academic Purposes Domain -Levels 3 & 4

• Moderators' newsletters - level 4 (part of EAP)

• Clarifications - level 4 standards (part of EAP) - note, NZQA then calls them "Informations Sheets" just to confuse you.

• Exemplars - level 4

• EAP Support materials - levels 3 & 4

• TKI's ESOL Online Level 3 (Belonging) Units

• TKI's ESOL Online Level 4 (Millennium) Units

• Certificates in EAP (examples from Lincoln and Auckland Unis

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NZCEL

• The English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP)

• Unit Standards - English Language (for NZCEL) Domain

• Unit Standards - EAP Domain

• Assessment Resources for EL

• Assessment Resources for EAP Standards

• Text Analyzer

• Vocabulary Lists

• NZCEL Guiding Document

• All of the above plus a hyperlinked matrix in one handy document!  Happy days!

• Moderators' newsletters, clarifications, exemplars, resources for EL (formerly ESOL)