Speaking Plainly: Student Led Reporting in Relation to the New Zealand Curriculum Standards

Abstract

With the development of the New Zealand Curriculum Standards how can teachers encourage the engagement of their students and community in the learning and reporting process? Student agency can be seen both as a prerequisite for and as an outcome of meaningful, engaged and self-directed learning. Agentic learners research their own learning and are active participants in a tripartite relationship with their teacher and parents/ whanau. Arguably the most important achievement of school should be for learners to set learning tasks interdependently, analyse the foundations of one’s actions and of the actions of others (including the teacher), learn from one’s mistakes, sense the boundary between the known and the unknown (Kudriavtsev & Urazalieva, 2006), ultimately driving their own learning in whatever the context may be.