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Speaker 1: So teachers resistance to the new school curriculum is in

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Speaker 1: full swing. The content for years zero to ten was

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Speaker 1: released overnight. One of the subjects that had quite a

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Speaker 1: few changes as History. Here's the Education Minister, Erica Stanford,

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Speaker 1: on that you're now going to learn about the Stone

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Speaker 1: Age and the Romans and the Greeks and the Egyptians,

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Speaker 1: and kings and queens and revolutions. It's really exciting. Craig

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Speaker 1: Thornhill is the chair of the History Teachers Association. High

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Speaker 1: Craig got to Heather, are you as excited as Erica?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's certainly been an exciting day getting to see

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Speaker 2: this new curriculum. Concerned is probably a better word.

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Speaker 1: What are you concerned about?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's all very well to say there's all this

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Speaker 2: new material there, but the key concerns that we have, well,

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Speaker 2: there's a few. So for starters, there's no conceptual framework

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Speaker 2: for this curriculum. There's lots of interesting topics and the

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Speaker 2: Minister has mentioned some of those, but they all seem

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Speaker 2: to be quite sort of freestanding, and there's no kind

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Speaker 2: of way for students to join the dots between those topics.

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Speaker 2: The other key concern is the sheer amount of content.

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Speaker 2: And for example, students in years zero to eight are

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Speaker 2: only going to have three hours a week to learn

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Speaker 2: this stuff, so I think that comes through about eighty

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Speaker 2: hours to cover everything that's in those curriculum year by year.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot.

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Speaker 1: How many hours do they have at the moment, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not sure about at the moment, but the new curriculum

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Speaker 2: does state that six hours per week will be shared

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Speaker 2: between social sciences and science, so really, if you divet up,

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Speaker 2: it could be three hours a week for a social

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Speaker 2: studies teacher or a teacher to teach year seven and

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Speaker 2: eight social sciences. And if you've looked at the curriculum,

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Speaker 2: you'll see there's quite a lot there.

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Speaker 1: Is it the case that because it has suggested that

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Speaker 1: some local history has been brought out of the curriculum

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Speaker 1: in order for some international history to be popped in?

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Well, and I've really only had a few hours to

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Speaker 2: look at this today, that does seem to be the case.

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Speaker 1: Are you okay with that?

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Speaker 2: Local history really gives a good framework for students to

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Speaker 2: understand history so they can place it in their local context,

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Speaker 2: which they can really, you know, easily get to grips with.

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Speaker 2: So that is a concern that local history has been removed.

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Speaker 1: Is the problem here, I mean, is the problem here

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Speaker 1: the actual content or is it the time frame within

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Speaker 1: which you guys are having to do it?

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Speaker 2: Oh, the timeframe is definitely a concern either your nine

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Speaker 2: and ten teachers who might be history teachers and jerocoby teachers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, they might have a good understanding of some

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Speaker 2: of this material. Primary school teachers who have done really

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Speaker 2: well to get up to speed with the artuto in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand history as curriculum in the last few years.

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Speaker 2: Now they're going to have to learn all of this

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Speaker 2: global history and the different geography stuff that hasn't been

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Speaker 2: included in the past. We are concerned that where's the

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Speaker 2: resourcing for this going to come. This is the draft

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Speaker 2: curriculum and it'll be finalized at some point next year.

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Speaker 2: How long does that give the ministry to produce these resources.

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Speaker 2: It's a real concern that teachers are going to be

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Speaker 2: left hanging expected to teach this with no resourcing.

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Speaker 1: Craig, thanks very much, appreciate it. Craig Thornhill History Teachers

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