Key Competencies in the classroom

The key competencies from the NZ curriculum are having a more significant part in classroom teaching and reporting to parents.

The New Zealand Curriculum identifies five key competencies:

• Thinking.
• Relating to others.
• Using language, symbols, and texts.
• Managing self.
• Participating and contributing.

After participating in a discussion with my team members regarding the KCs I have considered how much explicit teaching I have done this year with my class around the KCs. 

Could more teaching around managing self, relating to others and participating and contributing help with the behaviour management issues I am finding in class this year?

 

Future Implications

Bring back Discovery time to my classroom as a way to explicitily promote the KCs in my classroom.