Every card names which of those it runs on, with the study cited on the back.
NZC aligned
Designed specifically for the refreshed
Designed specifically for the refreshed
New Zealand Curriculum.
The updated New Zealand Curriculum describes itself as knowledge-rich and grounded in the science of learning. Shift & Spark was built on that same evidence base, which is where the alignment comes from.
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The same evidence base.
The cards are built on the strategies the evidence keeps pointing at: retrieval practice, spaced practice, elaboration, dual coding and metacognition.
Five pillars.
Retrieval Practice
Spaced Practice
Elaboration
Dual Coding
Metacognition
Every card names which of these five it runs on, with the study cited on the back. English, Mathematics and Statistics, Science, Social Sciences, Health and PE, Technology, the Arts and Learning Languages all have In Practice examples on the cards.
The command words.
Every card names the command word it practises. These are the words that appear in exam questions and marking schedules, so teachers and students already use them. If a class keeps losing marks on one of them, this is how you find the cards for it.
Command word
Cards
What the card asks students to do
Explain
31 cards
Say how or why something works
Create
29 cards
Make something: a question, an analogy, a plan
Justify
24 cards
Defend a position with evidence
Evaluate
21 cards
Judge quality, significance or which option is stronger
Identify
17 cards
Give the right answer, name, or term
Describe
17 cards
Recount from memory in a sentence or more
Compare
11 cards
Set two things against each other
Bicultural practice
What is in the box, specifically.
Boards are required under the Education and Training Act 2020 to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Here is what is in the box.
Te reo Māori on every card
All 150 cards carry a te reo name with its meaning alongside the English title. Students and kaiako meet reo in the ordinary business of a lesson rather than in a themed week.
Tikanga concepts woven through the pedagogy
Seven concepts run through specific cards and are unpacked in the teacher guide: ako, tuakana-teina, manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, whakamana, kaitiakitanga and mauri.
Aotearoa contexts throughout
The In Practice examples draw on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the New Zealand Wars, Bastion Point, the Dawn Raids, the 1981 Springbok Tour and the 1893 suffrage petition alongside science, mathematics and literature.
Made for this system
NZ English throughout, and examples that assume a New Zealand classroom.
See it in the cards.
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