This section on Tāhūrangi contains different approaches to understanding learning progress. It includes information about e-asTTle.
In 2007, ERO published three reports on schools’ effectiveness in the collection and use of assessment:
This site includes news, relevant web links, and conference information. Contact the relevant subject expert listed on the NZASE website if you need assistance sourcing resources.
The following references will help you to plan teaching and learning activities for science.
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.
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This section on Tāhūrangi. contains practical resources and support for teaching and learning in te ao tangata | social sciences. It includes PDFs of titles in the Ministry of Education series Building Conceptual Understandings in the Social Sciences (BCUSS).
Although the BCUSS series is designed to help teachers of levels 1–5, it is strongly recommended for all senior teachers.
Resources and materials that support teaching and learning in science.
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 the 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 – Accelerating Success 2013–2017 is a strategy to rapidly change how the education system performs so that all Māori students gain the skills, qualifications and knowledge they need to enjoy and achieve education success as Māori.
This Ministry of Education professional development strategy focuses on improving outcomes for Māori students in English-medium schools. This strategy supports four main projects:
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.
This companion site to New Zealand Curriculum online offers specific guidance to school leaders and teachers on integrating the key competencies into the daily activities of the school and its teaching and learning programmes.
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).
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Last updated February 17, 2025