Teacher-only planning companion for Unit 2 Primary Source Library and Selection Guide. Use this page to make source curation a real part of curriculum design instead of a hidden after-hours task.
Curriculum coverage is not just what students eventually read. It also depends on whether kaiako select sources that are teachable, contrasting, and mana-aware. This guide supports that planning judgment explicitly.
Interpreting past experiences, decisions, and actions through historical evidence requires students to encounter appropriately selected and contrasting sources.
The guide helps kaiako build coherent source sets rather than isolated documents, which is essential for real historical interpretation.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-ANZH-D1`.
Systems shape learning opportunities too: what students are able to notice depends on the texts, voices, and structures kaiako place in front of them.
The planning guide supports teacher decision-making around rights, power, perspective, and how different learners meet the same inquiry idea through different scaffolds.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-U1`.
Teacher curation in Aotearoa should protect against archive bias, context-free use of Māori knowledge, and tokenistic “multiple perspectives” that do not actually change what students learn.
Use this guide to ensure at least one Māori-led or community-led source sits beside official texts, and to match the right student scaffold to the chosen source set.
Best used during planning before source analysis and writing tasks are printed.
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2021). Te Mātaiaho: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. Ministry of Education.
Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.