Kei Tua o te Pae
Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars is a best-practice guide that will help teachers continue to improve the quality of their teaching.
The exemplars are a series of books that will help teachers to understand and strengthen children's learning. It also shows how children, parents and whānau can contribute to this assessment and ongoing learning.
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Links to Te Whāriki – Ngā hononga ki Te Whāriki
Te Whāriki situates competence and continuity in place and community:
"Although the patterns of learning and development are sometimes seen as a progressive continuum linked to age, such patterns vary for individual children in ways that are not always predictable."
page 21
What does continuity lead towards? What is beyond the horizon? Te Whāriki states:
"This curriculum is founded on the following aspirations for children: to grow up as competent and confident learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body, and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valued contribution to society."
page 9
Book 3 draws on these aspirations in calling on early childhood learning communities to work towards the following outcome:
"The children actively participate, competently and confidently, in both the Māori world and the Pākehā world and are able to move comfortably between the two."
page 6
Many of the children in early childhood settings in the twenty-first century will develop the ability to actively participate in a number of worlds, to speak several different languages, and to participate as citizens of the global community.