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Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice

Published: 01 May 2010

This report complements the national evaluation report, Success for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services, March 2010. It presents examples of good practice from nine early childhood services, identified during their ERO reviews, which had practices that were working for Māori children and their parents and whānau.

Audience:
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Evaluation

Corporate Services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

Ensures our staff have access to tools and information to achieve ERO’s objectives. This team also ensures we meet government expectations in relation to employment and work activities.

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

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

    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

    Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Services

    Published: 11 Dec 2015

    This national report presents the findings of ERO's recent evaluation of how well early childhood services include children with moderate to severe special needs. This evaluation supports the Government's priority for every child to have the opportunity to participate in early childhood education (ECE).

    Audience:
    Education
    Māori-medium
    Parents
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Special education
    Education Support Workers
    Disability action groups

    Science in Years 5 to 8: Capable and Competent Teaching

    Published: 01 May 2010

    This Education Review Office report provides examples of good practice in science teaching for Years 5 to 8, in 13 New Zealand state schools. The evaluation included intermediate schools, contributing schools, full primary schools and a Years 7 to 15 secondary school.

    Audience:
    Parents
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Science
    Literacy and numeracy
    Literacy

    Evaluation Indicators for Education Reviews in Kōhanga Reo

    Published: 08 Apr 2021

    The Evaluation Indicators for Education Reviews in Kōhanga Reo is a specialist resource to inform the judgements that review officers make about the quality of children’s experiences while they are taking part in a kōhanga reo programme.

    Audience:
    Early learning
    Education
    Māori-medium
    Parents
    Content type:
    Basic page
    Topics:
    Kōhanga Reo
    Quality of children's experiences
    Evaluation

    Kia Manawanui

    Published: 13 Sep 2022

    Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2021 | Te eke angitū a te Māori hei Māori - Māori enjoying and achieving education success as Māori


    As part of ERO’s commitment to Te Wiki te reo Māori, this special publication is a chance to share the evaluation insights from both Māori medium and English medium settings.

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

    Quality in Early Childhood Services

    Published: 01 Aug 2010

    Early childhood education has been an important focus for the Education Review Office for over 20 years. This report uses findings from ERO's national evaluations of early childhood education and individual services' education reviews to highlight the factors that contribute to high quality early childhood education and care, as well as those that contribute to poor quality. The report provides a good starting point for further discussion for anyone involved in early childhood education including education providers, policy makers and teachers.

    Audience:
    Early learning
    Parents
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Quality
    Early childhood services
    Regulatory frameworks

    Careers education and guidance: Good practice

    Published: 07 May 2015

    The report focuses on good practice and showcases 10 secondary schools with high quality careers education. It identifies factors that contribute to high quality careers education and guidance in New Zealand secondary schools.

    Audience:
    Parents
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Career education
    Careers Information Advice Guidance and Education (CIAGE)
    National Administrative Guidelines (NAGs)
    Youth Guarantee Programme
    Secondary-Tertiary Programmes (Trades Academies)
    Service Academies

    Information releases

    Published: 04 Mar 2021

    In areas of high public interest we may choose to publish information under the Official Information Act; Briefing reports, and the Chief Review Officer’s expenditure.

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

    Working with the National Standards within the New Zealand Curriculum

    Published: 09 Aug 2010

    ERO evaluated preparedness to work with the National Standards within The New Zealand Curriculum in 228 schools during Terms 1 and 2, 2010. ERO found that most schools were well prepared or had preparation under way, and in many cases the preparations focused on aligning existing benchmarks and expectations with the standards.

    Audience:
    Education
    Parents
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Curriculum
    Self-review

    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

    An Evaluation of Service Academies

    Published: 27 Oct 2011

    This report discusses the performance of 16 service academies funded by the Ministry of Education. These are located at 16 predominantly low decile secondary schools across the country.

    Audience:
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Service Academies
    Youth Guarantee Programme

    Overall judgement criteria for home-based and hospital-based early childhood service Education Reviews

    Published: 15 Apr 2021

    This page outlines the criteria that we use in our Education Reviews, of hospital-based early childhood services, to make an overall judgement of how well the service promotes positive learning outcomes for children, or contributes to children's learning and promotes their wellbeing.

    Audience:
    Early learning
    Education
    Content type:
    Basic page
    Topics:
    Early learning
    Hospital-based education

    Stewardship: informed decision making

    Published: 04 Sep 2017

    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.

    Audience:
    Education
    Parents
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Improvement
    Stewardship
    Decision making
    Evaluation
    Video
    Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

    Raising student achievement through targeted actions

    Published: 18 Dec 2015

    In 2015, ERO investigated target setting in both primary and secondary schools. We focused on the extent to which targeted actions of schools supported accelerated progress for students at risk of not achieving.

    Audience:
    Education
    Parents
    Schools
    Content type:
    Research
    Topics:
    Raising achievement
    Achievement
    Primary
    Secondary

    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