“We have lofty goals when it comes to excellence and equity in our education system – and in a time when many might consider ...

Advice from a Teacher/Librarian, mainly to Principals and Librarians. Lots of good ideas that you may not have heard of. All have been tried and found successful.

This article has arisen from a study involving teachers in an early childhood centre and their responses to being introduced to schema learning theory. As a former practitioner in early childhood ...

Looks at the effectiveness of the Me and My School survey, created by the NZCER and designed for students in Years 7 to 10, which is used to consider how students perceive their own levels of ...

Understanding the number system is the key to teaching and learning mathematics. Here is a framework which shows how children's understanding about the number system becomes more sophisticated as ...

This widely used test has been revised and standardised for use in New Zealand. It is an individually administered test, which provides a measure of an aspect of a child's word reading skills, ie word ...

What was the real effect of the radical Tomorrow’s Schools reforms? Has New Zealand’s school system improved as a result? What changes are needed now to meet our expectations of schools? This is the ...

The 'introduction' workshop is ideal for schools new to the tool. You will learn how to administer the survey and can ask questions about the use of the survey, the reporting, and become more ...

There is much to celebrate in mathematics and statistics education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The chapters in this book showcase some of our most exciting practice and research, and they are excellent ...

Popular culture is omnipresent in the lives of young children. The mass media, movies, television, and product advertising all carry messages about acceptability and desirability, deeply entangled ...

Even the most enthusiastic computer-hooked teachers do not have time to make all the programs they would like to use in class. Commercial programs need vetting. This reprint from the TES gives the ...

In the present-day classroom children talk to each other a lot. Two items present different, but complementary, analyses of what goes on. In this item very young children's ability to help one another ...