Purpose
Achievement Criteria
Explanatory Note 1
Demonstrate understanding of strategies that enhance hauora involves:
- identifying and describing strategies that enhance hauora with reference to a relevant underlying concept
- describing how the strategies enhance hauora, using examples.
Explain strategies that enhance hauora involves:
- discussing how the strategies work together to enhance hauora with reference to a relevant underlying concept, using examples.
Evaluate strategies that enhance hauora involves:
- drawing conclusions about the effectiveness of the strategies to enhance hauora in relation to a relevant underlying concept, using examples.
Explanatory Note 2
For the purposes of this standard, the underlying concepts are:
- attitudes and values
- health promotion
- socio-ecological perspectives.
Explanatory Note 3
For the purpose of this achievement standard, strategies are plans of action to enhance hauora. They involve selecting and planning the implementation of individual or collective actions or practices. They draw on personal and interpersonal skills, and may be reflective of diverse values and perspectives.
Shared Explanatory Note
Refer to the NCEA glossary for Māori, Pacific, and further subject-specific terms and concepts.
This achievement standard is derived from the Health and Physical Education Learning Area at Level 6 of The New Zealand Curriculum: Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007.
External Assessment Specifications
The External Assessment Specifications are published by NZQA and can be found on their website using this link:
NZQA Health Studies
Unpacking the Standard
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
The intent of the Standard
Ākonga will be assessed on their understanding of strategies that enhance hauora. They will use their knowledge of underlying concepts to suggest plans of action to enhance hauora, in response to a given scenario.
Hauora is a Māori philosophy of holistic wellbeing grounded in bodies of mātauranga unique to Aotearoa New Zealand. This goes beyond the physical aspects of wellbeing to include aspects such as the spiritual, the collective, and the environmental.
The Significant Learning that ākonga will engage with in relation to this Standard includes:
- inquire into Māori knowledges and practices related to hauora, such as rongoā and maramataka
- inquire into Pacific values, knowledges, and practices, such as vā, in relation to individual, whānau, and community health contexts
- understand how personal, interpersonal, and societal factors impact hauora and inform decision-making
- investigate diverse strategies to help manage change situations that impact hauora
- use critical thinking in relation to social constructs, power imbalances, biases, and assumptions that impact hauora.
Learning about hauora may be enriched by exploring models such as Te Whare Tapa Whā, Te Wheke, Fonua, or Fonofale. However, ākonga are not assessed on their knowledge or application of a model of health in this Standard.
Making reliable judgements
Ākonga will identify strategies that enhance hauora, then provide examples of how the strategies enhance hauora with reference to a relevant underlying concept.
At higher levels of achievement, ākonga will discuss how the strategies they have suggested work together to enhance hauora and will be able to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of these strategies to enhance hauora. Ākonga will draw on examples from the given scenario throughout their discussion, and any conclusions will draw from relevant information from the scenario.
Collecting evidence
External Assessment Specifications will be published by NZQA and will specify details about how and at what stage of the year this Achievement Standard will be assessed.
Possible contexts
Scenarios will be related to any of the Key Areas of Learning: Food and Nutrition, Mental Health, and Relationships and Sexuality.
Engagement with the following Ministry of Education guides is recommended for all Health Studies kaiako for teaching and learning:
The intent of the Standard
Ākonga will be assessed on their understanding of strategies that enhance hauora. They will use their knowledge of underlying concepts to suggest plans of action to enhance hauora, in response to a given scenario.
Hauora is a Māori philosophy of holistic wellbeing grounded in bodies of mātauranga unique to Aotearoa New Zealand. This goes beyond the physical aspects of wellbeing to include aspects such as the spiritual, the collective, and the environmental.
The Significant Learning that ākonga will engage with in relation to this Standard includes:
- inquire into Māori knowledges and practices related to hauora, such as rongoā and maramataka
- inquire into Pacific values, knowledges, and practices, such as vā, in relation to individual, whānau, and community health contexts
- understand how personal, interpersonal, and societal factors impact hauora and inform decision-making
- investigate diverse strategies to help manage change situations that impact hauora
- use critical thinking in relation to social constructs, power imbalances, biases, and assumptions that impact hauora.
Learning about hauora may be enriched by exploring models such as Te Whare Tapa Whā, Te Wheke, Fonua, or Fonofale. However, ākonga are not assessed on their knowledge or application of a model of health in this Standard.
Making reliable judgements
Ākonga will identify strategies that enhance hauora, then provide examples of how the strategies enhance hauora with reference to a relevant underlying concept.
At higher levels of achievement, ākonga will discuss how the strategies they have suggested work together to enhance hauora and will be able to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of these strategies to enhance hauora. Ākonga will draw on examples from the given scenario throughout their discussion, and any conclusions will draw from relevant information from the scenario.
Collecting evidence
External Assessment Specifications will be published by NZQA and will specify details about how and at what stage of the year this Achievement Standard will be assessed.
Possible contexts
Scenarios will be related to any of the Key Areas of Learning: Food and Nutrition, Mental Health, and Relationships and Sexuality.
Engagement with the following Ministry of Education guides is recommended for all Health Studies kaiako for teaching and learning:
Standard Exclusions
This Standard has exclusion(s). Standards that recognise the same or similar learning outcomes as other Achievement or Unit Standards need to be excluded to prevent ‘double dipping’. Where two or more Standards assess the same learning outcome, those Standards are specified in the Exclusions List. You can only use credits gained from one of these Standards towards your NCEA qualification.
Click here for the exclusions list for the new NCEA Level 1 pilot Standards.
Standard Exclusions
This Standard has exclusion(s). Standards that recognise the same or similar learning outcomes as other Achievement or Unit Standards need to be excluded to prevent ‘double dipping’. Where two or more Standards assess the same learning outcome, those Standards are specified in the Exclusions List. You can only use credits gained from one of these Standards towards your NCEA qualification.
Click here for the exclusions list for the new NCEA Level 1 pilot Standards.