Treaty of Waitangi Skills

Treaty of Waitangi Skills focuses on the past, present and future aspects of the treaty but from a Skills perspective.

For example:

• Understanding what a treaty is
• Analysing historic paintings
• Describing different perspectives such as clashes between two cultures
• Interpreting official documents
• Explaining what a tribunal does
• Comparing such as some of the Treaty settlements
• Examining resources such as cartoons
• Evaluating the importance of national monuments such as the Treaty House
• Drawing conclusions such as the creation of the Treaty Principles of today
• Allocating relevance such as the Treaty in society today
• Thinking about the future such as the place of the Treaty in NZ society in the future
• Enlarging ideas such as the Treaty on the international stage.