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Poutama Reo: tools to support your Te Reo Māori Improvement Planning

Published: 12 Sep 2023

Poutama Reo is clear and simple to use. However, the tools and resources within our Leaders Guide and Kit have been created to support schools to share the vision of Poutama Reo with their school community and get the most out of this engagement. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori 2020

Published: 14 Sep 2020

News release about Māori Language Week and students wanting more te reo Māori language in their schools

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article
Topics:
Te reo Māori

Science in the Early Years: Early Childhood and Years 1-4

Published: 12 Apr 2021

This report looks at how well science is led in services and schools, how well science is woven through the curriculum, and how well kaiako/ teachers include science in a responsive curriculum. Each section of this report provides leaders, kaiako, and teachers with reflective questions to consider, which could support improvements. We also identify opportunities for improvement at both the individual service / school level, and for the system.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Science
Early learning
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Students learn best in safe and effective learning environments

Published: 25 Jul 2022

The responsibility of keeping tamariki safe while in the care of their school, kura, and early learning service is the responsibility of every adult.

In the education system, ERO plays an integral role in their protection by reviewing and having an oversight of effective child protection policies and processes. We aim to provide schools and early learning services with the ability to quickly identify any gaps in their policies and processes.

Audience:
Education
Content type:
News article

Feedback on Te Ara Huarau

Published: 15 Apr 2021

Feedback from our participating schools and from an independent external evaluator (Dr Delwyn Goodrick)

Audience:
Education
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

Review and Improvement Services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

We carry out external evaluations at early childhood services, schools and kura to provide information on their performance and to support improvement for high quality education.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

New teachers not set up to succeed in role, in need of more support

Published: 13 May 2024

Teachers are the most important influences on student outcomes in schools. New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that new teachers are not set up to succeed, despite the hard work of schools and new teachers themselves. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

A Great Start? Education for Disabled Children in Early Childhood

Published: 28 Sep 2022

Quality early childhood education (ECE) affects how well disabled children do at school and in life – from academic achievement and earning potential, to health and wellbeing.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

How ERO reviews

Published: 04 Mar 2021

ERO reviews all early childhood services, kōhanga reo, schools and kura to help their learners flourish. We focus on what’s working well for learners/ākonga and what can improve.  

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Basic page
Topics:
Kōhanga Reo
Kura
Early childhood services
Evaluation
Schools
School hostels
International students

Education in NZ failing disabled learners, new research finds

Published: 28 Sep 2022

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO), in partnership with the Office for Disability Issues and the Human Rights Commission, has found that education across NZ schools and early childhood services is failing disabled learners.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

About us

Published: 04 Mar 2021

The Education Review Office | Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga (ERO) is the New Zealand government’s external evaluation agency that informs and facilitates improvement in early learning services, kōhanga reo, puna kōhungahunga, kura and schools.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Basic page

Responding to Covid-19: Supporting Auckland NCEA students - Summary

Published: 25 Aug 2021

This short summary accompanies the full report Responding to the Covid-19 crisis: Supporting Auckland NCEA students. It outlines the key findings from ERO’s evaluation of three Te Kura programmes aimed at supporting Auckland NCEA students following the lockdowns in 2020. This summary briefly lists who these targeted programmes reached, their impact, and lessons for responding to future lockdowns.  

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Whānau
COVID-19
English-medium
Learning
Māori
Māori ākonga / learners
Māori and Pacific learners
National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA)
Pasifika
Students
Teaching
Wellbeing

New report to support maths teaching

Published: 15 Feb 2024

ERO’s new report highlights what teachers can do to provide quality maths education for New Zealand’s learners in the first years of school. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

A Great Start? Education for Disabled Children in Early Childhood Education - summary

Published: 28 Sep 2022

Quality early childhood education (ECE) affects how well all children do at school and in life – from academic achievement and earning potential to health and wellbeing. Quality ECE supports children to develop the social, emotional, communication, cognitive, and motor skills which enable them to thrive. This is particularly critical for disabled children as it sets the foundation for their future learning.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Poutama Reo provides unity of purpose in te reo Māori revitalisation

Published: 21 Sep 2022

Equity and excellence, barrier free access to Māori language, culture and identity for all students is a step closer with today’s launch of Poutama Reo the improvement journey for te reo Māori in English-medium schools. It will also benefit whānau, hapū and Iwi.

 

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article
Topics:
Te reo Māori
English-medium
Resources

The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals - Summary

Published: 06 Dec 2021

This short summary of our longer report Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals looks at the impact of Covid-19 on teachers and principals – including how Covid-19 has impacted enjoyment in work and workload. It 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

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