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

The focus on teacher inquiry to enhance student learning is a key feature of The New Zealand Curriculum and in New Zealand’s approach to teacher professional learning. This article examines how a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Darr reports on his experience in creating a mathematics test using asTTle, comments on his perceptions, and discusses some of the strengths and weaknesses of this new assessment package for ...

The way beginning teachers find jobs, or are directed into them, are very different, country to country, state to state. Here a brand new system, at the 'market-forces' end of the spectrum, is ...

This commentary aims to encourage a research-based, critical, inquiring approach to the development of play-based learning in primary schools. I suggest that this approach could build from the wealth ...

The TSCYC is the first fully standardized and normed broadband trauma measure for young children who have been exposed to traumatic events such as child abuse, peer assault, and community violence.

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 ...