This report focuses on the perspectives and experiences of 92 ākonga and 52 whānau members associated with these schools. It ...

Liz Patara, principal of Clyde Quay School, Wellington, responds to a question from Mark Bradley of Wellington College: "What advice would you give to someone who is new to teaching in Aotearoa New ...

The findings of a recent Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) project. Researchers used a collaborative whakawhānaungatanga approach to explore how early childhood educators in settings ...

Te Whäriki has two indicative learning outcomes: dispositions and working theories. The notion of dispositions has been explored extensively over the past few years, but the concept of working ...

We will retire the tests currently designed for Year 8 (Test 6) and Year 10 (Test 8) at the end of 2025. Listening ...

Relationships lie at the heart of early childhood education principles, curriculum, and pedagogy. Building strong relationships is taken for granted as a capacity all teachers possess; yet this might ...

The significance of experiences in nature for children's learning and development has been expounded by philosophers and educationalists for centuries. In many contemporary early childhood education ...

Data literacy enables teachers to use information collected about students and their learning to take data-informed instructional action. This article outlines two approaches developed by teachers to ...

Whānau reports are designed to be simple summaries of how an ākonga has done in a PAT, including national averages and the margin of error. As with all PAT ...

This article considers the potential of the recently “refreshed” Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki, focusing on how the document responds to three serious concerns: the ...

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 ...

With the introduction of PAT Tuhituhi | PAT Writing, NZCER is now offering a pair of introductory webinars for this new auto-marked, online assessment tool. These will be brief half-hour sessions with ...