Our national assessment Advisor Shirley Bain has created a new resource - The Interact Standard - to help us with the marking of all interactions including the new Level 1 interaction. This resource and others are available on the Pūtake online assessor support platform. Here are some instructions for accessing Pūtake if you are unfamiliar with this part of the NZQA website.  There will also be new resources to support the marking of languages assessments arriving soon on Pūtake so watch this space.

There are some pages on the NZQA website about Pūtake, they can be accessed from any subject page. Here is a link to the main Assessor Support page.

There is also a page for troubleshooting you login to Pūtake.

More information about the support for the NCEA changes can be found here. 

Term 4

NCEA Language Standards - RAMP updates - Webinar about the changes to Level 1,2,3 achievement standards:

A short session to introduce the RAMP updates to levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Languages NCEA standards.

The 3 sessions will be repeating the same information, and the faciliators will post the recording on the Languages NIF Padlet as well.

Review and Maintenance Programme (RAMP) work has been undertaken for all three levels of NZC NCEA for 2025. Based on feedback, selected Achievement Standards and supporting materials have been amended for 2025 assessment. As the current versions are still being used for assessment, materials for planning purposes have been provided as pdf documents. All RAMP work for Levels 2 and 3 will be hosted on the NCEA.Education website as an interim until December 2024. For Level 1, the pdf versions will replace the material currently on NCEA.Education by 24 January 2025.

RAMP Information on the NCEA website: Reviewed NZC Achievement Standards and assessment materials for use in 2025 | NCEA (education.govt.nz)

Webinar links:

NCEA Language Standards - RAMP update. A short session to introduce the RAMP updates to levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Languages NCEA standards.

Wed, Nov 13, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Register here
Tue, Nov 19, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Register here
Thu, Nov 28, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Register here

On-line workshops for all Language teachers:

These workshops aim to give you ideas on how to explicitly incorporate key Language skills from the Learning Languages Learning Matrix into your teaching and learning programmes. This may be useful as you prepare your students for externals or are in the process of reflecting and preparing your Learning Language programmes for 2025. These workshops will be recorded and uploaded to our padlet.

You can register for the on-line workshops on the links below:

• Reading Workshop Wednesday 23^rd October 3.30-4.30pm
• Listening Workshop Thursday 17^th October 3.30-4.30pm
• Writing Workshop Tuesday 12^th November 3.30-4.30pm

Other workshops will be advertised later in the term and Term 1 2025.

Wellington Pacific Language in-person workshop

This will be an opportunity for teachers to reflect on their level 1 course plan and plan for 2025. We will look at look at activity ideas to develop explicit teaching of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills which you can weave into your course programmes from year 9. Register your interest here.

When: Wednesday 6^th November

Wellington Te Reo Māori Kaiako in-person workshop

This will focus on preparing students for Level 1 NCEA internals in 2025. Register your interest here.

Hawkes Bay Language teachers – Wrap up session

Join us to reflect on Level 1 and look forward to 2025. MOE Offices, Lever St, Ahuriri. Register Here

When: November 20th, 9:30am – 12:30pm.