Teacher-only days are for schools and kura to prepare for the changes to NCEA in the way that best suits them.

Read the news update about the Term 4 2024 teacher-only days

If you want support to connect with other schools and kura in your region, please contact the NCEA Lead at your regional office.

Resources to help you to facilitate sessions on the NCEA changes are published on this page.

Explore the full range of online resources for teacher-only days

The following resources were developed to support the implementation of the NCEA changes and can be used on teacher-only days to facilitate sessions with your department, school or kura.

We encourage you to review the resources prior to the teacher-only day and select only the activities relevant to your setting. Together they offer more than a full day of activities.

Embedding matauranga Māori in NCEA course design and delivery 

These activities will help you to:

• Think critically about how mātauranga Māori is included in NCEA course design and delivery
• Explore ways to draw out the mātauranga inherent in the materials and existing resources to support learning outcomes
• Establish appropriate tikanga to ensure that authenticity is upheld, and integrity is maintained

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• Title: Supporting kura auraki to embed mātauranga Māori in NCEA
• Description: Supporting kura auraki to embed mātauranga Māori in NCEA course design and delivery
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Developing NCEA subject specific literacy and numeracy practices within a Learning Area

These activities will help you to:

• Review the progress made towards strengthening literacy and numeracy practice within a Learning Area or Department. 
• Refine literacy and numeracy practice within a Learning Area or Department. 
• Explore lesson resources in the curated resource bank. 
• Develop an individual action plan to strengthen literacy and numeracy practice. 
• Explore a case study

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• Title: Activity Guide
• Description: Developing NCEA subject specific literacy and numeracy practices within a Learning Area
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• File Extension: pdf
• File Size: 899KB

Using the resources on the NCEA website to support mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori

This resource is intended to support you and your department, school to engage with the resources to support Mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori.

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• Title: Activity guide
• Description: Using the resources on the NCEA website to support mana ōrite te mātauranga Māori
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• File Size: 907KB

Using the resources on the NCEA website to support course planning

This resource will support you to plan courses of learning offering NCEA assessment. It offers an overview of some of the key considerations when planning teaching and learning. It builds on the previous version to include a broader range of activities to support course planning.

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• Title: Activity guide
• Description: Using the resources on the NCEA website to support course planning
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• File Size: 2MB

Inclusive approaches to strengthening literacy across learning areas

This resource draws from Effective Practices that Support Literacy and includes activities to support explicit teaching strategies for vocabulary.

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• Title: Activity guide
• Description: Inclusive strategies to strengthening literacy across learning areas
• File URL: https://ncea-live-3-storagestack-53q-assetstorages3bucket-2o21xte0r81u.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2023-09/Activity%20guide%20-%20Inclusive%20approaches%20to%20strengthening%20literacy%20across%20learning%20areas_0.pdf?VersionId=5pjmW6r2sV6Wv6wRsoOJKsE.hiW3d3dJ
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Explicit teaching strategies to strengthen reading across learning areas

This resource includes activities to support explicit teaching strategies for reading in learning areas.

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• Title: Activity guide
• Description: Explicit teaching strategies to strengthen reading across learning areas
• File URL: https://ncea-live-3-storagestack-53q-assetstorages3bucket-2o21xte0r81u.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2023-09/Activity%20guide%20-%20Explicit%20teaching%20strategies%20to%20strengthen%20reading%20across%20learning%20areas.pdf?VersionId=33TCegzuYQb7Ury2wiA5AFBoi_99ndjV
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Strengthening planning for numeracy across learning areas

This resource supports the use of Effective Practices that Support Numeracy to identify numeracy learning opportunities and to plan explicit teaching of numeracy in learning area contexts.

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• Title: Activity guide
• Description: Strengthening planning for numeracy across learning areas
• File URL: https://ncea-live-3-storagestack-53q-assetstorages3bucket-2o21xte0r81u.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2024-10/Activity%20guide%20-%20Strengthening%20planning%20for%20numeracy%20across%20learning%20areas.pdf?VersionId=LJ0Jw8NUu4rkWAJDUvbRahQGBtKVlAe3
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• File Size: 2MB

Pathways

We have updated the Pathways page on the NCEA website to include information of what it means to be a teacher of pathways and how this benefits ākonga. This information is also available in a printable PDF format.

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• Title: Resource
• Description: All teachers are teachers of pathways
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• File Extension: pdf
• File Size: 157KB

We want to hear your feedback on your teacher-only day experience and the supporting resources. If you have any pātai or feedback, please get in touch via ncea.review@education.govt.nz

Four teacher-only days are available to primary and secondary schools, kura and wharekura in 2023 and 2024. These days provide dedicated time for you to engage with the significant changes across the integrated Curriculum and Assessment Change Programme within Te Poutāhū.

Ringfenced time for schools, kura and kaiako to engage with these changes was requested by education sector groups in 2022 and has been granted for 2023 and 2024.

The timeframes for the 2023 and 2024 teacher-only days have been set following consultation with the Sector Advisory Group supporting teacher-only days.