Have high expectations
High expectations a key principle in the New Zealand Curriculum. The curriculum recognises the strengths, interests, and open-ended potential of every ākonga. Quality teaching involves believing in each student's capacity for learning and having high expectations for all.
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Support students to have high expectations
Support students to have high expectations
Teacher Wayne Robinson shares how he sets up and develops student ownership and high expectations for learning.
Develop high expectations with whānau
Develop high expectations with whānau
Promote high expectations in teacher practice
Promote high expectations in teacher practice
- Build high but realistic goals for students.
- Foster ākonga confidence and self-belief.
- Support ākonga aspirations.
- Build pedagogies and teacher capability to set and support high expectations.
- Monitor the impact of teaching practice and take action when needed.
- Work with whānau to identify a student’s full potential.
- Communicate high expectations across the school.
- Communicate and collaborate with Māori and Pacific whānau and ākonga.
Support student aspirations
Support student aspirations
Katrina, a student at Onslow College, talks about reaslising ambition to become a kindergarten teacher.
Use strategies that help every student to achieve
Use strategies that help every student to achieve
Reflection questions
Reflection questions
Consider these questions in your context.
- In what ways do you demonstrate the high expectations principle from The New Zealand Curriculum?
- What do we focus our high expectations on?
- How do our high expectations reflect what is important to the school community?
- How highly do we value our learners’ linguistic and cultural capital?
- How can we identify and cater for students’ talents and abilities in ways that are culturally responsive?
- How do the teaching practices and assessment processes in your school enable students to meet those expectations?
Source: Adapted from: Education for disabled learners in schools – ERO (opens in a new tab/window)
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