The Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum and national curricula identify the need for students to be connected, caring and active contributors to their own, others, and wider community ...

Formative assessment is a crucial aspect of teaching and learning in the classroom, but there is evidence that there has been a lack of effective implementation of formative assessment in practice. In ...

Thiscollection brings together seasoned educators and researchers who have long navigated the complex waters of early childhood teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through critical care and ...

Supporting disabled teachers’ right to teach: Implementing “reasonable accommodations” in practice for early childhood education student kaiako and kaiako with disabilities ...

All workers in New Zealand can expect to have their rights to health implemented in their workplaces. For early childhood teachers, health risks extend to the children they care for, as well as their ...

The long-running National Survey of Schools project is part of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research’s (NZCER’s) Te Pae Tawhiti programme of research, funded through the Ministry of ...

With the introduction of PAT Tuhituhi | PAT Writing, NZCER is now offering a pair of introductory webinars for this new ...

This article analyses research literature and policy texts to investigate the extent to which culturally responsive education policies can improve Māori achievement in schools. It presents a snapshot ...

Schools were at varying stages with implementing Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum The Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum was not available when we last surveyed primary schools in ...

Despite making major advances in educational provision, Māori and Pasifika children continue to lag behind other groups, in New Zealand, achieving disproportionately lower results on national averages ...

Teacher assessment is now understood as central to curriculum reform and a key factor in responsive pedagogy. This article discusses one aspect of a 3-year investigation into the development of ...

Early childhood curricula are designed to provide young children with a range of experiences and interactions in order to grow their knowledge, skills, and dispositions for learning. New Zealand early ...