Late_July 2010            Letter from NZACDITT President

Holiday conferences report back
Achievement Standards Writing
Professional Development

May 2010

Achievement Standards Consultation
Course planning for 2011
Professional Development

Hello there!
Lots going on at the moment.

Contents

• Teaching and Learning Guides
• Subject name
• Achievement Standards Update
• Achievement Standards Consultation
• General

Hello there

Second letter from the President for the year – and “Happy Birthday NZACDITT” on 30 March. Yes… we have passed the first year milestone.

February 2010

Unit Standards

Hello there

First letter from the President for the year – and what an exciting year it promises to be.

Hi All
Last week was pretty intensive for some teachers together with folk from tertiary,  MOE and NZQA. The good news, however, is that we have some draft Achievement standards (AS)  for Digital Technologies. Briefly the process was: from the Body of Knowledge (BoK), derive Learning Objectives (LO) with indicators; these LO then lead onto draft Teaching and Learning Guides (TLG) and draft AS.

NZQA National Qualifications Services (NQS) has considered sector feedback on the revision of the National Certificate in Computing (level 2 & 3) and would note the following.

There was no mandate to include unit standard 2783 as a compulsory standard. As such unit standard 2783 will be removed as a compulsory from the drafts. 2780 and 2781 remain as compulsory.

To reflect this change, the elective A requirements in the level 2 Qualification will be changed from 15 to 18 credits. In the level 3 qualification the requirement remains at 20 credits.