EDU 212 (Cook Island, powerpoint)

THE

COOK ISLANDS

The Cook Islands

Ministry of Education

The Cook Islands Curriculum

Where is it?

Cook Islands Educational Goals

This is the Official policy for learning,

teaching and assessment in the schools

in the Cook Islands.

The Cook Islands Curriculum Framework

Cook islands administration Guidelines

The Cook islands Curriculum sets out national

directions for schooling consistent with achieving

the main goal of education in the Cook Islands,

which is:

"...to build the skills,knowledge,attitudes and values

of its people to ensure the sustanibility of the language

and culture of the Cook Islands, and its economic growth,

and to enable the people of the Cook Islands to put their

capabilities to best use in all areas of their lives."

(Cook Islands Education Guidelines)

The Cook Islands Curriculum applies to:

Goals of The Cook Islands Curriculum

• All schools in the Cook Islands, both government and private schools;

• All students regardless of gender, ethnic group, religion, location, background, ability or disability;

• All years of schooling, from early childhood to the completion of secondary

"E tito te vaka e oku tamariki"

The Cook Islands Curriculum

recognises that all students should

have the opportunity to develop essential

skills through study in essential areas of learning.

This curriculum provides a structure around which schools can build those educational programmes to suit the needs of their students, and to respond to the changes in society.

It provides the schools to provide learning opportunities that are enriching, enjoyable and

challenging.

The Cook Islands Curriculum recognises and promotes links with the home, and the wider

community.

The Cook Islands Curriculum also builds upon the positive features of Cook Islands traditional and modern democratic, spiritual and economic impact upon all aspects of education particuarly the delivery of curriculum in the Cook Islands.

"Brave the storms of life my children"

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The Cook Islands

Curriculum Framework

The Tree of Learning

The framework identifies fundamental

principles that give to learning and direction in Education.

The Cook Islands Curriculum Framework..

Cook Islands Curriculum Framework:

encourages and endorses school-home-community

partnerships that enhance learning and teaching,which contribute to high achievement levels.

Home/Family

Community

School

The framework identifies eight essential

learning areas of learning and sets out

essential skills to be developed by all students.

It reflects and reinforces the values and attitudes

that underpin Cook Islands society.

The Cook Islands Curriculum

Framework focuses around

The Tree of Learning.

The Cook Islands Curriculum Framework...

has a Tree of Learning which focuses on key Values

these have been carefully selected and are enforced in the

schools in The Cook Islands..

They include:

• Honesty
• Integrity
• Charity
• Love

The Tree of Learning

Depicts unity in all phases of education and schooling.

The tree denotes living as living and on-going.

The Tree of Learning is firmly rooted in Cook Islands society

and culture, its trunk strengthened by the skills, and its branches

and leaves providing the learning areas and contexts for the children

to learn, to grow, to prosper and to bear good fruit in time.

essential learning areas of learning

The

8

Values

Mathematics

Languages

Health & Physical Well Being

The Arts

Enterprize

Technology

Social Science

Science

Identity

Involvement

Inquiry

The Tree of Learning is firmly rooted

in Cook Islands society and culture, its trunk strengthened by the skills, and its branches and leaves providing the learning areas and contexts for the children to learn, to grow, to prosper and to bear good fruit in time.

"E tau i a ki te rakau i tanumia ki te pae kauvai ra

Ko tei ua i tona ra tuatau tikai,

e ko tei kore roa i mae tona rau,

Ko tanakatoa e rave ra, te meitaki ra ia."

"He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water

That brings forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaf also shall not wither

And whatever he does shall prosper."

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