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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)

Continuity of learning transitions from early childhood services to schools

Published: 19 Jun 2015

This report looks at how well New Zealand early childhood services and schools are supporting transitions to school and highlights what's important and examples of good practice.

Audience:: Early learning; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Communities of Learning | Kāhui ako; Resourcing; Collaboration

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)

Stewardship: strategic resourcing

Published: 04 Sep 2017

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.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Stewardship; Resourcing; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Teaching approaches and strategies that work

Published: 24 Nov 2017

This evaluation looks at teaching approaches and strategies used in schools where there has been a significant increase in the number of students at or above National Standards in the upper primary school years (Years 5 to 8). We wanted to learn more about any short-term interventions or long-term strategies that may have been influential in bringing about these positive achievement trajectories. We have shared and discussed our findings from some of the 40 schools we visited.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP); National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA); Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Ako Panuku: An evaluation of the programme’s effectiveness

Published: 02 Aug 2012

This evaluation looks at the Ako Panuku programme, which is funded by the Ministry of Education for Māori secondary/kura teachers. ERO conducted an online survey of all teachers involved in the programme and also visited a number of schools and kura. Our findings show that a high proportion of teachers found the programme to be highly effective or effective for them. Ako Panuku has had positive outcomes for participants and their students.

Audience:: Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Ako Panuku; Evaluation; Kura; Teachers | Kaiako; Māori secondary teachers