- Published: 12 Apr 2021
Science in New Zealand schools and early childhood services - series summary
Science is important – we rely on science and scientific thinking in almost every endeavour in our modern society. High quality science education at school is essential for learners who want a career in science, but it is also important for all learners to help them understand the scientific issues that whānau, communities, and nations face. Issues such as climate change, healthy living, and innovation all depend on science.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
Te Kahu Whakahaumaru – Ngā mahi a te rangai mātauranga Māori (English)
Te Pou Mataaho, ERO’s evaluation and research group, and Te Uepū ā Motu, ERO’s national evaluation and review team, pursued this evaluation to provide an evidence base about the initial impacts of Covid-19 on Māori-medium education and how the sector responded.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
Te Kahu Whakahaumaru – Ngā mahi a te rangai mātauranga Māori (Māori)
I whāia tēnei arotake e Te Pou Mataaho, te rōpū arotake, rangahau hoki a Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga me Te Uepū ā-Motu, te rōpū arotake ā-motu a Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga, ki te whakaputa i tētahi kohinga taunakitanga e kitea ai ngā pānga tōmua o te Mate Korona ki te rāngai mātauranga reo Māori, me ngā rautaki i whāia ai e taua rāngai.
- Published: 10 Dec 2020
Learning in a Covid-19 World: How early childhood education services helped children and their whānau
Early childhood education services had to quickly adapt to changing requirements and periods of uncertainty due to Covid-19. During lockdown, services had to transition to supporting children to learn from their homes. After lockdown, they had to support children to return to services and continue their learning in a Covid-19 world. This summary highlights the efforts of early childhood services to support students and their whānau.
- Published: 10 Dec 2020
Te Kahu Whakahaumaru: Māori continue to show resilience across Māori-medium education
In Aotearoa, Māori-medium education experienced significant disruption when the outbreak of Covid-19 forced kura to close their doors, and whānau and kaiako to adjust to home schooling and distance learning. Among the many challenges were access to technology and resources with Māori communities among the most affected.
- Published: 10 Dec 2020
E whakatinana tonu nei te rāngai mātauranga reo Māori i te manawanui
I Aotearoa nei, i tino raru te rāngai mātauranga reo Māori i te horapatanga o te Mate Korona, i kati ai ngā tatau o ngā kura, i mate ai hoki ngā whānau me ngā kaiako ki te tīni i ā rātou mahi ki te whakaako ki te kāinga me te ako tawhiti.
Ko tētahi raru i roto i te huhua, ko te korenga o ngā taputapu matihiko me ngā rauemi, ka mutu ko ngā hapori Māori ērā i rongo i te korekore rawa atu nei.
- Published: 15 Sep 2020
Nihinihi Whenua – Valuing te reo Māori: Student and whānau aspirations
This report provides a snapshot of student and whānau perspectives on the teaching of te reo Māori. It follows the June publication of Te Tāmata Huaroa, which provides a review of the current status of te reo Māori in English medium school settings.
- Published: 28 Aug 2020
Covid-19: Impact on schools and early childhood services - Interim Report
ERO has a comprehensive and fast-tracked work programme underway to understand the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on students, services and schools, and on teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand in the English and Māori medium education sectors.
- Published: 18 Jun 2020
Te Tāmata Huaroa: Te Reo Māori in English-medium Schooling
This report gives a snapshot of the current provision of te reo Māori teaching and learning in a representative sample of English-medium primary and secondary schools. The education sector is seen as an important lever in the Government’s Maihi Karauna strategy for language revitalisation.
- Published: 15 Jun 2016
The Early Learning Years
This booklet is for all parents and caregivers who have infants and toddlers in an early childhood education service, or who are thinking about enrolling their child in an early childhood service. It gives you an idea of what you can expect from high quality early childhood education and the questions you can ask a service about the education and care of your child.
- Published: 05 Aug 2015
Infants and toddlers competent and confident communicators and explorers
The report examines how well 235 early childhood services supported infants and toddlers to become competent and confident communicators and explorers.
- Published: 01 Nov 2013
Priorities for Childrens Learning in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice
This good practice report presents examples from five early childhood services where priorities for children’s learning were well considered and reflected on.
- Published: 24 Oct 2013
Use of Equity Funding in Early Childhood Services
This national report discusses how effectively 147 early childhood services used Equity Funding and the extent to which the Equity Funding objectives of participation and quality in early childhood services were achieved.
We have also published a companion report - Use of Equity Funding in Pacific Early Childhood Services.
- Published: 27 May 2013
Priorities for Children's Learning in Early Childhood Services
This national report is one of two reports that present the findings of a 2012 national evaluation about curriculum priorities.
- Published: 26 May 2013
Working with Te Whāriki
This national report is one of two reports that present the findings of a 2012 national evaluation about curriculum priorities.
- Published: 01 Feb 2012
Partnership with Whānau Māori in Early Childhood Services
In this evaluation Partnership with Whānau Māori in Early Childhood Education, ERO focused on the extent to which:
- services understood and valued the identity, language and culture of Māori children and their whānau, particularly when the child and whānau enter the service
- managers and educators built positive relationships with the whānau of Māori children; and
- each service worked in partnership with the whānau of Māori children.
- Published: 01 Aug 2010
Quality in Early Childhood Services
Early childhood education has been an important focus for the Education Review Office for over 20 years. This report uses findings from ERO's national evaluations of early childhood education and individual services' education reviews to highlight the factors that contribute to high quality early childhood education and care, as well as those that contribute to poor quality. The report provides a good starting point for further discussion for anyone involved in early childhood education including education providers, policy makers and teachers.
- Published: 01 May 2010
Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice
This report complements the national evaluation report, Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services, March 2010. It presents examples of good practice from nine early childhood services, identified during their ERO reviews, which had practices that were working for Māori children and their parents and whānau.
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