Values Education in the New Zealand Curriculum

Values Education is a compulsory component of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) due for implementation in all New Zealand Schools in 2010.

What does Values Education mean in your school?
How have you explicitly incorporated values learning & practice into your lesson content?
What training in Values Education do you provide your teachers?
How do you review Values Education outcomes?

Deborah facilitates professional development seminars for teachers in which she shares resources and demonstrates methods that she has trailed and found successful to infuse the teaching of values across the curriculum and to make such teaching evident.
The ideas shared in Deborah's seminars demonstrate how curriculum boundaries may be crossed as values are explored, modelled and encouraged. Participating teachers have found the seminars stimulating and the ideas shared have provided a springboard for them to develop, monitor and assess values education in their classrooms.

“The concept of a “take-away” CD of resources is so great for a busy teacher. I feel energised and inspired to return to school, revisiting what we currently do and redirecting our thoughts to the core of a values based curriculum. Great practical & directly relevant classroom methodology.”
– Emma Riegar, Adelaide

Read a recent review of the Values Seminar
"The secret to life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.”
This was a quote presented to us at the Dialogue Australasia Conference in Brisbane on “Teaching Values across the Curriculum.” (March 23rd, 2009) We had to say if we substantially agreed or disagreed with that comment...

Scope of Teaching Values Seminar

The Social Challenges of Gen Y - What are we up against
Contemporary Values Education: the New Zealand Curriculum, the Australian National Framework & International Trends
How Values Education can be integrated into all subject areas
Making it work in the classroom - trialled and tested subject material and innovative cross-curricular methodologies (with a focus on Years 6-10)

Deborah is also available to consult with schools on an ongoing basis, developing their values curriculum across all subject disciplines and at age appropriate levels. Contact Deborah to find out more about seminars and curriculum development.

Values Education Seminar in Adelaide

Teaching Values Across the Curriculum series

Deborah and her Auckland based colleague Catherine Syms have just completed a successful tour of Australia where they offered a comprehensive one-day Professional Development seminar on Teaching Values Across the Curriculum.

FACILITATORS

Catherine Syms & Deborah Stevens have extensive backgrounds in the diverse and rapidly evolving area of Values Education.

Catherine Syms

Catherine has over 10 years teaching experience in Values Education in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. She has participated in United Kingdom national working parties on Humanities and Health curriculum development, focusing on core values and differentiation.

Deborah Stevens

Deborah is a scientist, teacher and educational consultant in the discipline of Bioethics. She is the author and facilitator of New Zealand's first dedicated bioethics curriculum at secondary level, and a frequent traveller across New Zealand and Australia as a conference presenter and facilitator of student and professional development seminars for teachers.