- Published: 27 Jun 2019
Preparedness to implement Te Whāriki (2017)
ERO is undertaking a series of evaluations on the implementation of Te Whāriki: He whāriki mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa. This report examines how prepared services are to implement Te Whāriki, including their engagement with professional learning and development, and determining 'what matters here' and next steps.
- Published: 11 Jun 2019
Keeping children engaged and achieving in writing
This report shares some of the strategies and approaches used by schools who had focused on improving achievement in writing. It also shares some simple strategies used in classrooms where achievement in writing had been accelerated.
- Published: 12 Sep 2018
Promoting wellbeing through sexuality education
This report provides findings from ERO's evaluation of how well schools were promoting and supporting student wellbeing through sexuality education.
It includes high-level findings, examples of good practice and recommendations for schools and policy audiences. It is accompanied by a series of short publications for whānau, students, and trustees.
Brochures aimed at students, whānau and Boards of Trustees are also available.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Strengthening curriculum: inquiry maths
An analysis of achievement data and a desire to introduce more culturally responsive pedagogies into the classroom were triggers for introducing an inquiry -based approach to the teaching of mathematics at Manurewa Central School.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Stewardship: informed decision making
At Manurewa Central School, the relationship between the principal and trustees is described in terms of how trust and confidence is built through effective listening and transparent reporting, interrogation and discussion of information.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Professional learning
Professional learning reflects the approach that has been established for students. Learning is differentiated with multiple opportunities for engagement and structure in manageable steps.
This video was filmed at McAuley High School.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Professional inquiry
Inquiry is at the heart of what drives improvement and innovation at McAuley High School.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Stewardship: strategic resourcing
At Manurewa Central School, careful financial management over many years has enabled the provision of high quality facilities and resources that enhance the school environment and learning opportunities available to students and their families and whanau and the community.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Stewardship: working relationships
At Invercargill Middle School, the way in which school trustees and leaders work together fosters an appreciative and respectful environment that acknowledges the contributions of everyone in the learning community.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Teacher collaboration: professional learning in modern learning environments
Working together to determine what the collaboration and teamwork looks like on a day-to-day basis has been a critical and continued focus of professional learning and team dialogue at Stonefields School.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Visible professional learning
At McAuley High School, classroom teacher observations are a frequent occurrence and students report how they regard this as teachers actively modelling learning behaviour.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Whole school buddy system
At Otumoetai Intermediate, all teachers are engaged in differentiated professional learning and development. Those with similar goals are ‘buddied’ with another staff member.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Opportunity to learn: a collaborative learning community
In improving the teaching and learning of mathematics, leaders and teachers are working to develop safe, collaborative environments where every learner (teachers and students) can access the thinking of others to strengthen their knowledge and understanding.
- Published: 04 Sep 2017
Learning leadership
The team structure in this school supports the professional learning and development of leaders and teachers. Team members discuss their roles, responsibilities and the reciprocal nature of their interactions.
- Published: 01 Nov 2011
Literacy in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice
The intent of the evaluation was to gain an insight and understanding of literacy teaching and learning in early childhood education. This report complements the ERO national evaluation report, Literacy in Early Childhood: Teaching and Learning, February 2011. It presents examples of good practice from 13 early childhood services, identified during their ERO reviews, which had high quality literacy teaching and learning. ERO revisited these services in Term 4, 2010.
- Published: 30 Oct 2011
Positive Foundations for Learning: Confident and Competent Children in Early Childhood Services
This report discusses the areas of strength, and areas for development that ERO found. It also describes the practices of specific service types - Playcentres, kindergartens and education and care services - in supporting children’s social competence, and understanding of appropriate behaviour.
- Published: 06 Apr 2011
Working with the National Standards: Raising student achievement in reading, writing and mathematics
This is the latest report in the series of ERO's national evaluation reports about the implementation of the National Standards in English-medium schools with students in Years 1 to 8.The evaluation involved 237 schools reviewed by ERO in Terms 3 and 4, 2010. The report indicates that schools are still at varying stages of working with the National Standards.
- Published: 02 Dec 2009
Reading and Writing in Years 1 and 2
This Education Review Office (ERO) evaluation focused on how effectively reading and writing was taught in the first two years of schooling, and on how well teachers used assessment information to plan and evaluate their teaching.
- Published: 01 May 2009
Managing Professional Learning and Development in Secondary Schools
This is one of two national reports by the Education Review Office (ERO) on how well schools manage teachers’ PLD. This one is about PLD in secondary schools and the other is on primary schools.
This report discusses how well secondary schools:
• plan for PLD;
• build a culture in which teachers learn and develop; and
• monitor the effectiveness of teachers’ learning and development.
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