Teaching and Learning
We are preparing to close Arts Online on 29 March 2024 as this content is moving to Tāhūrangi .
- Tāhūrangi is the new online curriculum hub for Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education.
- We have moved relevant and up-to-date teaching resources from Arts online to Tāhūrangi.
- As a consequence, from the end of March, most content will no longer be available on this website.
- Before the end of March, we’ll provide information about accessing Creatives in Schools content.
- If there are specific materials from the website you need, we recommend you download them before the end of March.
- If you think a resource should be publicly available, please email us a copy of the resource at [email protected] and we will consider this as part of our overall migration process.
Browse these sub pages of Teaching and Learning...
Creatives in schools
Available creatives
Successful schools - Round 2 (2021)
Successful schools - Round 3 (2022)
How the programme works
Planning and application guide
Project proposal checklist
Frequently asked questions
Case studies
Successful schools - Round 1 (2020)
Successful schools - Round 4 (2023)
Pedagogy
The New Zealand Curriculum statements for each of the Arts disciplines and their glossaries.
Art History
Art history may include a study of theories of the arts, architecture, and design. Theoretical investigations also inform practical inquiry.
Drama
Drama expresses human experience through a focus on role, action, and tension, played out in time and space. In drama education, students learn to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds.
Dance
Dance is expressive movement that has intent, purpose, and form. In dance education, students integrate thinking, moving, and feeling.
Visual Arts
Through engaging in the visual arts, students learn how to discern, participate in, and celebrate their own and others’ visual worlds. Visual arts learning begins with children’s curiosity and delight in their senses and stories and extends to communication of complex ideas and concepts.
Music – sound arts
Sound from natural, acoustic, and digital environments is the source material for expressive ideas in music. These ideas are manipulated and extended into forms, genres, and styles that are recognised as music. Music is a fundamental form of expression, both personal and cultural.
Primary
This section contains the Nga Toi collection.
Primary teaching resources
Commercial resources
The products and services listed in this section are intended to support teaching of the Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum but are in no way endorsed by the Ministry of Education.
Subject associations
Links to subject associations related to the Arts in New Zealand...
Arts organisations
This section contains links to Arts organisations in New Zealand.
Professional readings
Links to readings and research related to teaching the Arts in New Zealand and internationally.
Reviewed resources
Links to resources for teaching the Arts across all the disciplines. They are arranged alphabetically.
Units and sequences
Units and sequences that support teaching the Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum.
Learner examples
Case studies and digistories related to teaching the Arts in New Zealand.