Strategies for Engaging Students: Introduction

Strategies provided by teachers and teacher educators. Support material written by Cliff Harwood under contract to the Ministry of Education to support Technology in The New Zealand Curriculum.

This section provides a range of teaching strategies that can be included in the development of units of work to address specific student learning needs. These strategies have been identified by teachers and advisers as having the potential to enhance student understandings and practices about components of technology within The New Zealand Curriculum (2007). The strategies presented have been organised into curriculum levels within each of the components of the three stands, with many of the ideas being applicable at multiple levels.

When selecting a strategy to include in a unit of work to address a specific student learning need, teachers are encouraged to look across the curriculum levels to identify strategies that best match the focussed learning needs of their students and the context they have selected for learning in Technology.

It is intended that the range of strategies presented in these documents will be regularly updated. To enable this, we encourage teachers to provide feedback on the effectiveness of these strategies and to share any modifications or adaptations they made that improved student engagement and/or learning. Ideas for additional strategies which could be added to the documents within any particular component are also welcomed.

Feedback should be sent to [email protected]

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Submit your own strategy

These strategies have been identified by teachers and advisers as having the potential to address specific student learning needs.

We would encourage others to share their experiences as they have trialed these strategies or developed different strategies to suit their particular own situation. Tell us what has worked for you and your students and why it was successful and we can share this success with the wider technology community.

Simply complete this Strategies submission form or email Glynn McGregor at [email protected] and we will get back to you to discuss how this can be done.

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