Assessment | Resourcing | MoE
In 2007, ERO published two reports on schools’ effectiveness in the collection and use of assessment:
The New Zealand Ministry of Education’s best evidence synthesis iterations draw together, explain and illustrate through vignette and case, bodies of evidence about what works to improve education outcomes, and what can make a bigger difference for the education of all our children and young people.
Horticultural and Agriculture Teachers Association (HATA) is the professional association providing support for members and teachers throughout New Zealand.
Over 500 000 items are available through the Schools Collection, including books, videos, and DVDs. Schools can also interloan music, books, and serials from the National Library’s general collections through their local curriculum information service centre.
Teachers are encouraged to visit other TKI communities, such as Enabling e-Learning and Software for learning.
The on disk library of audiovisual teaching resources for secondary schools includes over 40 titles covering a range of subjects, with more titles to be added.
Explore the themes and stories on this website.
This website contains over 3000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country.
This site has pages for the following senior subjects: business studies, classical studies, economics, geography, history, and senior social studies (see links under Senior Secondary on the landing page).
Social Sciences Online also provides PDFs of titles in the Ministry of Education series Building Conceptual Understandings in the Social Sciences (BCUSS) (listed in featured content, right navigation).
Although the BCUSS series is designed to help teachers of social sciences, levels 1–5, it has much of value for teachers of other subjects, including teachers at levels 6–8.
Students can go to this website to find useful, accurate, online information. Librarians from all over New Zealand are available each weekday between 1 pm and 6 pm to help students search online. To use AnyQuestions, students must be attending a New Zealand primary, intermediate, or secondary school or being home-schooled.
As well as the HTML version of The New Zealand Curriculum, this interactive site offers a variety of support and strategies, news updates, digital stories of schools’ experiences, and archived material relating to development of the curriculum.
This site includes a translation into English of the main sections of the draft marautanga. Only learning levels 1, 4, and 6 have been translated in the learning areas.
Ka Hikitia 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. This strategy supports four main projects: Te Kotahitanga, Te Kauhua, Ako Panuku, and Te Mana Kōrero.
The Action Plan for Pacific Education maps the Government’s commitment to transforming outcomes for Pacific learners and families.
This page on Tāhūrangi offers stories and resources to help you consider and embed the key competencies within The 2007 New Zealand Curriculum.
Last updated April 17, 2025