Resources
Assessment and professional support
The following links to key agencies provide assessment information and professional support for teachers of business studies.
This site is home to a considerable body of research and readings, online workshops, and new assessment tools and resources. For example, it provides links to asTTle (Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning) and NEMP (the National Education Monitoring Project).
- The linked site
Consider the evidence promotes evidence-driven decision making for secondary schools and supports secondary educators to make best use of evidence to improve student achievement.
- For a discussion of how changes in assessment practice can contribute to greater student ownership of learning and improved outcomes for students, see
Directions for assessment in New Zealand, a report by Michael Absolum, Lester Flockton,
John Hattie,
Rosemary Hipkins, and
Ian Reid (also available as a Word or PDF file).
BES is a collaborative knowledge-building strategy designed to strengthen the evidence base that informs education policy and practice in New Zealand.
See in particular:
Effective Pedagogy in Social Sciences/Tikanga ā Iwi: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration [BES] (2008).
In 2007, ERO published reports on schools’ effectiveness in the collection and use of assessment:
NZCETA is a national organisation administered through the CETA Curriculum and Membership Services office in Oamaru, with 15 regional branches. CETA focuses on accounting, business/entrepreneurship, economics, financial literacy, digital technologies, information management/computing/technology ICT, as well as areas of a cross-curricular nature.
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Resourcing ideas
The following resources will help you to plan teaching and learning activities for business studies.
Services to Schools supports educators by providing professional learning, advice, and quality resources to inspire and inform student learning, foster their love of reading, and develop their knowledge of culture and heritage.
Tāhūrangi is the Ministry of Education online curriculum hub.
Social Sciences on Tāhūrangi also provides PDFs of the Ministry of Education’s series
Building Conceptual Understandings in the Social Sciences (BCUSS):
- Approaches to Building Conceptual Understandings
- Approaches to Social Inquiry
- Being Part of a Global Community
- Belonging and Participating in Society
Although the BCUSS series is designed to help teachers of levels 1–5, it is strongly commended to senior social science teachers.
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Other Ministry of Education websites
This section of New Zealand Curriculum Online provides Education for Enterprise resources promotes innovative approaches to learning that will enable students to meet the challenges of the modern workplace, suggests how to develop an education for enterprise approach, and offers resources, tools, and templates for classroom use; notes for teachers; links; news; and key contacts.
This site includes a translation into English of the main sections of Te Marautanga o Aotearoa – the curriculum for Māori-medium education. (Only learning levels 1, 4, and 6 have been translated in the learning areas.)
This section of New Zealand Curriculum on Tāhūrangi offers guidance to school leaders and teachers on how to integrate the key competencies into the daily activities of the school and its teaching and learning programmes.
Ka Hikitia – Ka Hāpatia sets out how we will work with education services to achieve system shifts in education and support Māori learners and their whānau, hapū and iwi to achieve excellent and equitable outcomes and provides an organising framework for the actions we will take.
This Ministry of Education professional development strategy focuses on improving outcomes for Māori students in English-medium schools. The strategy supports four main projects: Te Kotahitanga, Te Kauhua,
Ako Panuku, and Te Mana Kōrero.
Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020–2030
This site takes a closer look at the Pasifika Education Plan and the Pasifika Education Implementation Plan. It offers reflective questions, ideas, stories, and resources to support and inspire schools to make a difference for all Pasifika students.
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Other government websites
The Doing Business in New Zealand page brings together information on current reviews and consultations, expanding a business, insolvency, intellectual property, government procurement, research, standards and conformance and technical barriers to trade, and starting a business. See recent updates.
See the site categories on the home page, including Features and Commentary, a section that profiles New Zealand companies developing or exploring their markets and includes other business insights. Recent press releases are also available.
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Other websites
The following websites have been recommended as helpful by teachers. They have not been extensively reviewed or checked for quality.
Business NZ is an advocacy group for sustainable growth through enterprise.
Chambers of Commerce
See local directories, for example, the
directory for Auckland.
Business representative groups
These groups aim to support members in growing and developing their businesses.
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
A
report for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Aotearoa New Zealand on the UNITEC site, confirms that Māori are the world’s third most entrepreneurial people.
This site aims to help talented people make contact. It includes success stories.
This is a directory site, which is in the process of adding news updates about Māori business.
Young Enterprise Trust’s principle objective is to promote an enterprise culture amongst New Zealand school students. A new website is being developed. Current areas focus on financial education and enterprise studies.
Last updated November 29, 2024
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