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Accelerating student achievement: a resource for schools

Published: 31 May 2013

This resource can be used with the School Evaluation Indicators. It brings together findings from ERO’s recent national reports to outline what works to accelerate progress for Māori students at-risk of underachieving in primary schools. We share approaches schools have taken where progress was accelerated and schools were able to extend their practices to help more students succeed. Innovative schools focus on inequity within their student population, resulting in improved outcomes for Māori students.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Achievement; Resources; Māori student achievement; Inquiry

Ethnic diversity in New Zealand state schools

Published: 01 Jan 2018

This article originally appeared in ERO Insights - Term 1, 2018 and explores how the ethnic diversity of the primary and secondary school roll has changed in New Zealand since 2009, and whether these changes are leading to more diverse or more segregated schools.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Ethnic diversity; Diversity; Cultural diversity; State schools

Leading Innovative Learning in New Zealand Schools

Published: 04 Apr 2018

The Education Review Office (ERO) visited 12 schools to see how they were preparing their students as 21st century learners. Leaders were innovative, rethinking and transforming teaching and learning to equip students with the knowledge, skills and qualifications required for their future. In doing so, they also maximised learning opportunities offered by digital technology and flexible learning spaces.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Innovative learning; Modern Learning Practice (MLP)

Including Students with Special Needs: School Questionnaire Responses

Published: 01 Apr 2012

This report, Including Students with Special Needs: school questionnaire responses presents the findings from a questionnaire completed by schools reviewed in the first two terms of 2011. It is based on schools’ own views of how well they include children with special needs.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Special education; High needs; Inclusive practices; Questionnaire; Teacher aides; Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)

Education on the East Coast: Schools and Kura Kaupapa Māori

Published: 01 May 2011

This cluster evaluation highlights improvements in the overall performance of the six kura kaupapa Māori and 12 English-medium schools on the North Island’s East Coast. This report highlights some significant changes in these schools over the last 14 years.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: East Coast region; Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa; English-medium

Inclusive practices for students with special education needs in schools

Published: 05 Mar 2015

This report examines how well students with special education needs are included in New Zealand schools. The report provides an update on progress towards meeting the Government target that, by the end of 2014, 80 percent of New Zealand schools will be doing a good job and none should be doing a poor job of including and supporting students with disabilities.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Inclusive practices; Peer support; Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)

Including Students with High Needs: School Questionnaire Responses (2)

Published: 09 Sep 2012

All children deserve the right to an education including those with special education needs. Through its Success for All policy, the Government expects all schools to demonstrate inclusive practice for children with special education needs by the end of 2014. This report presents the findings of a questionnaire where schools assess their own provisions for students with special education needs. It follows on from a similar report produced in early 2012.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Special education; High needs; Inclusive practices; Questionnaire; Teacher aides; Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)

Evaluation at a Glance: Transitions from Primary to Secondary School

Published: 10 Dec 2012

This national report combines current research with findings from recent ERO reports about students' transitions between and through schools. The report discusses the important pastoral care and learning support processes needed for successful transitions.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Evaluation; Pastoral care; Education transitions; Vulnerable learners; Diversity; Community

Te Muka Here Tangata – The strand that binds people

Published: 06 May 2021

This case study explores the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 events on Māori learners in English-medium schools, and the response of leaders, schools and communities in the Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Bicultural curriculum; Bilingual; East Coast region; English-medium; Cultural diversity; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Schools; School community; Te reo Māori; Whānau; Wellbeing; Māori immersion; Māori; Manaakitanga; Inclusive practices; Inclusion; COVID-19; Principals' performance; School leaders; Teachers | Kaiako; Whanaungatanga

Homeschools

Published: 31 Mar 2021

If your child or children are homeschooled, we may carry out a homeschooling review when requested by the Secretary for Education, or in other particular circumstances. This page details the process we go through for homeschool reviews.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Home-based education

Evaluation Questions for ERO Homeschooling Reviews

Published: 14 Apr 2021

This is a resource for parents of children who are homeschooled. It indicates the kinds of questions ERO reviewers may ask in a homeschooling review. You may wish to consider these in preparation for the review and use them yourself when you are thinking about how well homeschooling is going for your child.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Home-based education

The New Zealand Curriculum Principles: Foundations for Curriculum Decision-Making

Published: 19 Jul 2012

This is ERO’s second national evaluation report looking at the extent to which the principles of The New Zealand Curriculum are evident in schools’ curricula and enacted in classrooms. The curriculum principles are intended to be the basis of curriculum decision-making at schools.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Curriculum; Diversity; Community; Demographics

Strengthening curriculum: inquiry maths

Published: 04 Sep 2017

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.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Curriculum; Inquiry; Teaching; Evaluation; Professional capability; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Your child's education

Published: 14 Mar 2014

These booklets have been written for everyone who parents a child - those who have care and responsibility for children attending a school. The booklets include questions you can ask, as well as general information that you may find useful. Click on the booklet to read and download.

Your child's education is an overview of education in New Zealand, from early childhood education through to secondary school. The information and questions are a useful insight into what education looks like in New Zealand and the opportunities available to your child.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Parents; Aiga; Māori parents and whanau; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Primary; Intermediate; Secondary; Alternative education (AE); Kaupapa Māori; Kōhanga Reo; Ngā puna kōhungahunga; Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori; State schools; Integrated schools; Kindergartens; Education and care services; Home-based education; Playcentres; Playgroups; Guides for parents

Teaching as Inquiry: Responding to Learners

Published: 19 Jul 2012

This is ERO’s second national evaluation report on the extent to which schools have processes in place to support teaching as inquiry. It also looks at the specific inquiry approaches teachers use in classrooms.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Inquiry; Evaluation; Curriculum; Collaboration

Responding to Language Diversity in Auckland

Published: 29 Apr 2018

Auckland is New Zealand’s most culturally diverse city, with over 100 ethnicities and more than 150 languages spoken on a daily basis. How are schools and early learning services in Auckland responding to this increasing cultural and language diversity? This question was the basis for a new evaluation published by ERO Responding to Language Diversity in Auckland.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Language; Diversity; Cultural diversity; Ethnicity; Immigrants