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Students talk about learning in residential care

Published: 01 Jul 2021

ERO looked at the quality of education for students in Oranga Tamariki Care and Protection and Youth Justice residences. During this, ERO talked to students about their learning in residential care. This short and easy to read guide is aimed at students in residential care and contains information on what students like them told us about their learning.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: At-risk students; Behavioural needs; Best practice; Boys' education; Child wellbeing; Culture; Education and care services; Education outcomes; Education transitions; Equitable outcomes; Good practice; High needs; Māori; Physical and emotional safety; Priority learners; Raising achievement; Social workers; Teaching; Te reo Māori; Transitions; Vulnerable learners; Wellbeing

Ko te ako i ngā whare haumaru: He aratohu mō ngā mātua me ngā whānau

Published: 01 Jul 2021

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: At-risk students; Behavioural needs; Best practice; Boys' education; Child wellbeing; Culture; Education and care services; Education outcomes; Education transitions; Equitable outcomes; Good practice; High needs; Māori; Physical and emotional safety; Priority learners; Raising achievement; Social workers; Teaching; Te reo Māori; Transitions; Vulnerable learners; Wellbeing

Early Childhood Education: A Guide for Parents

Published: 01 Jun 2007

This 2007 ERO report is to help parents make an informed decision about selecting an early childhood service to suit them and their children. It identifies types of early childhood services and ways in which parents can help their child settle into a service.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Early Childhood Education (ECE); Kindergartens; Education and care centres; Parent-led services; Playcentres; Playgroups; Ngā puna kōhungahunga

Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Early Childhood Education

Published: 19 Jan 2021

Early childhood education services had to quickly adapt to changing requirements and periods of uncertainty due to Covid-19 in 2020. ERO undertook work to understand how this affected early childhood education services. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted children, whānau and services, how services responded and what they learnt, and the challenges that services expect they might face in future alert level changes.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Ko te ako i roto i ngā Whare Haumaru o Oranga Tamariki

Published: 01 Jul 2021

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; At-risk students; Behavioural needs; Best practice; Boys' education; Child wellbeing; Culture; Education and care services; Education outcomes; Education transitions; Equitable outcomes; Good practice; High needs; Māori; Physical and emotional safety; Priority learners; Raising achievement; Social workers; Teaching; Te reo Māori; Transitions; Vulnerable learners; Wellbeing

Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Secondary School Students as They Return to the Classroom

Published: 23 Sep 2021

This short report, aimed at secondary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; COVID-19

Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Primary School Students as They Return to the Classroom

Published: 23 Sep 2021

This short report, aimed at primary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; COVID-19

A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting parents into 2021

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This short guide is for parents of children in early childhood education, and of school-aged children. It covers that we learnt from talking to schools and early childhood education services in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19. It also sets out some recommendations for how parents can continue to support their child’s learning this year.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Parents; Guides for parents

A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting Board of Trustees into 2021

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This short guide is for Board of Trustees for schools. It covers what we found from talking to both Boards of Trustees and schools in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19. The guide shares suggested actions for continuing to support students, parents, whānau and staff in a Covid-19 world.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Board of Trustees

A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting secondary-aged students into 2021

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This short guide is for school leaders and teachers in schools with secondary-aged students. It covers what we found from talking to schools in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19, and shares strategies used by schools to respond to the challenges they faced. It also sets out some actions that could be considered for continuing to support students, parents, whānau and staff in 2021.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Secondary

A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting primary-aged students into 2021

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This short guide is for school leaders and teachers in schools with primary-aged students. It covers what we found from talking to schools in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19, and shares strategies used by schools to respond to the challenges they faced. It also sets out some actions that could be considered for continuing to support students, parents, whānau and staff in 2021.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Primary

A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world: Supporting early childhood learners into 2021

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This short guide is for early childhood education leaders and kaiako. It covers what we found from talking to services in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19, and shares strategies used by services to respond to the challenges they faced. It also sets out some actions that could be considered for continuing to support children, parents, whānau and staff in 2021.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Early learning; Parents; Whānau; Teachers | Kaiako

Effective school evaluation: how to do and use internal evaluation for improvement

Published: 19 Nov 2015

This guide to using internal evaluation for improvement purposes is published jointly by ERO and the Ministry of Education as a companion to School Evaluation Indicators: Effective Practice for Improvement and Learner Success and is supported by Internal Evaluation: Good Practice.

Audience:: Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Evaluation; Internal evaluation; Pasifika; English-medium; Raising achievement; Improvement

Keeping children engaged and achieving through rich curriculum inquiries

Published: 29 Nov 2018

This Education Review Office (ERO) report is one of a series of reports on teaching strategies that work. It features strategies and approaches that we observed in 40 primary schools selected from across New Zealand. These schools came from a database of 129 schools, all with rolls of 200 or more, in which the proportion of students in the upper primary years (Years 5 to 8) achieving at or above the expected standard had increased. In each case, achievement levels were also above average for the decile.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Engagement; Achievement; Curriculum; Raising achievement

Learning from home expectations differ from real experience

Published: 19 Jun 2020

Learning from home under Covid Level 4 and Level 3.

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

Content type:: News article

Topics:: COVID-19; Learning

Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Schools

Published: 19 Jan 2021

To understand what the challenges of Covid-19 were in 2020 and how schools responded, the Education Review Office spoke to schools and surveyed over 2500 principals and teachers across the country. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted students, teachers and schools, how schools responded and what they learnt, and the challenges schools expect they might face in future alert level changes.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Schools; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals

Published: 06 Dec 2021

This report looks at the impact of Covid-19 on teachers and principals – including how Covid-19 has impacted enjoyment in work and workload. This report also sets out examples of how schools can prepare for 2022 and what supports will be needed for teachers and principals.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Secondary School Engagement

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This report explains strategies for supporting secondary students’ engagement during the Covid‑19 pandemic. These strategies include re-engaging students who present with wellbeing concerns or show signs of disengagement. The report also includes some innovative actions schools used to promote student engagement after the first lockdown in 2020.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Secondary; Engagement; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Te Kahu Whakahaumaru: Māori continue to show resilience across Māori-medium education

Published: 10 Dec 2020

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.

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

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Schools; Māori-medium; Teachers | Kaiako; Resilience; Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

Learning in a Covid-19 World: How school leadership rose to the challenge

Published: 10 Dec 2020

Principals and school leaders have taken on a lot of responsibility during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Education Review Office interviewed principals and board chairs and surveyed 1777 principals across the country from May through to September 2020 to understand how they have responded. This summary highlights how those school leaders rose to the challenge.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Leadership; Schools; School leaders