Here is a selection of articles about road safety education in New Zealand. These were published in magazines and journals aimed at professionals in the school sector.
Principals, teachers and road safety professionals will find practical ideas and an overview of how road safety education supports the day-to-day work of schools.
Published: September 2018 Where: Education Central
Here's how SADD is empowering secondary students to design new road safety campaigns aimed at their peers. The challenge is to use design thinking to prototype campaigns aimed at peers in their school community.
Published: May 2017 Where: NZ Education Gazette
Road Safety Week took place from 8–14 May, providing a timely chance to reflect on how sharing our roads can be an effective context for learning. Education Gazette looked at how teachers are integrating road safety into their school curriculum.
Published: February 2017 Where: NZ Interface Magazine
A curriculum-based competition challenged Year 1-13 students to create games or narratives about transport for the future.
The competition was created by the NZ Transport Agency in conjunction with a teacher reference group. Teachers from the group discuss how this approach to learning can lead to successful curriculum outcomes for students.
Published: November 2016 Where: NZ Education Gazette
The school patrol is a tried and tested way that students contribute to their school community. Education Gazette finds out how the task puts values into action for those students involved.
Published: June 2016 Where: NZ Interface Magazine
During an open night at Shirley Boys’ High School for prospective families, a group of Year 10 students waited for their audience. The lads fired up their devices, pulled out decks of cards and it was game on.
The students were in a social sciences class working on prototype games about road safety. Their best work was entered into the NZ Transport Agency’s Game Design Competition.
Published: November 2015 Where: NZ Education Gazette
The key competencies help teachers to re-imagine learning that is future focused and meaningful for students’ lives, writes Dr Rosemary Hipkins, with Wayne Erb.
Dr Rosemary Hipkins is a chief researcher at NZCER. With three colleagues, she has written a book called Key Competencies for the Future.
Published: May 2015 Where: Education Review series
Innovative secondary teachers are using road safety as an authentic context for young people to apply curriculum learning, writes Mary Chamberlain, an independent education consultant with extensive leadership experience in curriculum development. Article includes:
Published: November 2014 Where: NZ Interface Magazine
You can support students to become involved in cycling at school by checking out resources at the Bike Wise ‘10 for Teachers’. It’s full of activities that will engage students and help them discover why people cycle, as well as learn about safe cycling equipment and practices.
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Published: October 2014 Where: NZ Interface Magazine
On the streets and in the classroom, students now have an opportunity to become knowledge producers, with safer travel in their sights.
Wayne Erb reviews ‘Everyone is a road user’, a new curriculum resource from the NZ Transport Agency for years 1-8. Article includes:
Published: February 2014 Where: NZ Interface Magazine
Two virtual field trip programmes aim to get students involved with nationally important road projects – ‘Memorial Park’ and ‘Waterview Connection’. Both provide teachers a rage of activities and experiences that will deepen learning across the curriculum.
Article includes feedback from teachers about student learning connected to the field trips.
Published: January 2013 Where: Key Competencies on TKI
In this story, the teacher was keen for her year 10 students to experience a statistical inquiry which contributed to wider social outcomes in addition to the more immediate new mathematical knowledge being built. Article includes:
Published: October 2012 Where: The New Zealand Curriculum Online
These four full case studies show how secondary teachers created or trialled resources that use road safety ideas and action to add relevance and depth to learning areas.
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Published: November 2011 Where: The New Zealand Curriculum Online
These case studies illustrate how three schools have explored road safety aligned with the New Zealand Curriculum and are intended for both primary and junior secondary students (Years 9 and 10).
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