A personal philosophy of teaching and learning in the learning areas of English.
The following essay will look at how English plays an integral and fundamental role in the education of the New Zealand students. English is threaded throughout all areas of the New Zealand Curriculum, therefore as educator is is critical that we get it right.
The content of senior English Teaching
According to the Senior English Curriculum Guide (2012) English is about connecting with others and their ideas, exploring our identity and building relationships. The Guide states "as our ideas meet and merge with new ideas, magic happens." (Senior English Curriculum Guide, 2012). This occurs through students connecting with units that cover novels, film, unfamiliar text, writing and making connections. Once a student 's reaches level six of the English Curriculum they have developed a substantial understanding. At level six their understanding takes on a more developed and personal insight. This continues until at level eight where a student can show a discriminating and insightful understanding of …show more content…
I also see this with my own children. My youngest comes home, buzzing about the inquiry they have been engaged in all day. Explain to the family what they have learnt and how they recorded their information on their blog and updated the websites. He is eager to engage and cannot wait to continue. There is no line drawn from when he moves from maths to English as in secondary school. My daughter on the other hand, comes home and heads straight to her room, pulls out her paper and pens and begins to write, review and try and understand the text set for her by her teacher. I often sit and talk to her about the text she is reading, and have found it is one I read at school over thirty years ago. Does this seem like
The following essay will look at how English plays an integral and fundamental role in the education of the New Zealand students. English is threaded throughout all areas of the New Zealand Curriculum, therefore as educator is is critical that we get it right.
The content of senior English Teaching
According to the Senior English Curriculum Guide (2012) English is about connecting with others and their ideas, exploring our identity and building relationships. The Guide states "as our ideas meet and merge with new ideas, magic happens." (Senior English Curriculum Guide, 2012). This occurs through students connecting with units that cover novels, film, unfamiliar text, writing and making connections. Once a student 's reaches level six of the English Curriculum they have developed a substantial understanding. At level six their understanding takes on a more developed and personal insight. This continues until at level eight where a student can show a discriminating and insightful understanding of …show more content…
I also see this with my own children. My youngest comes home, buzzing about the inquiry they have been engaged in all day. Explain to the family what they have learnt and how they recorded their information on their blog and updated the websites. He is eager to engage and cannot wait to continue. There is no line drawn from when he moves from maths to English as in secondary school. My daughter on the other hand, comes home and heads straight to her room, pulls out her paper and pens and begins to write, review and try and understand the text set for her by her teacher. I often sit and talk to her about the text she is reading, and have found it is one I read at school over thirty years ago. Does this seem like