The final set of booklets - Kei Tua o te Pae

Now that we have the final set of the booklets we are as a team trying to get our heads around what the resource says as a whole.

The booklets are not yet available online at the MOE website as PDFs although the other books are.

New Zealand Licensed ECE centres are entitled to three sets from Learning Media for each license.

Printed copies of Kei Tua o te Pae and other Ministry of Education publications can be ordered from:
Ministry of Education Customer Services
Phone 0800 660 662
Fax 0800 660 663


Book 16 is the introduction to the new set - Symbol Systems and Technologies for Meaning Making.

This book reminds us of/introduces three lenses for analysing narrative assessments;



- a lens focused on assessment practices
- a Te Whaariki Lens
- A lens focused on the symbol systems and technologies for making meaning - literacy, mathematics, the arts, ICT ( these are discussed but others could be included such as scientific literacy)

An analysis of a learning story using the lens of assessment practices might examine a range of concepts around assessment as discussed in books 1-9. PDFs of these exemplars are available on the MOE website

Schema

I have just been notified that a new book is being released this weekend by Playcentre Publications. It is from one of the parents working on the Wilton Playcentre Centre of Innovation programme.

Once I get a chance I will write a short review here.

To order it go to www.playcentre.org.nz and click on the publications page.

regards

Maureen

Some new reading...

The next and final installment of the Kei Tua o te Pae series of booklets should be out by the end of this month or early March. Keep an eye out for them.

ERO has reviewed the sector implementation of the Self Review Guidelines and this report will soon be available on their Publications page

Māori Children in Early Childhood: Pilot Study is available from the ERO site as well.

Kei Tua o te Pae "new" books

The next set of booklets in the Kei Tua o te Pae series will be available probably from February 2009.

These will look at assessment through the lenses of literacy, mathematics, ICT and art.