Assessment practice suggested in Te Whariki, Aotearoa New Zealand's early childhood curriculum, aspires to involve parents in the planning for their child's learning. The narrative documentation of ...

The role and place of Māori people as the indigenous people of this land has influenced the culturally centred development of evaluation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Within this article the cultural value ...

Generations of New Zealanders have memories of themselves or their children at kindergarten, and new memories are being made every day. The first kindergartens appeared here in colonial times—a ...

The STAR reading tests are standardised assessment tools, designed to supplement the assessments that teachers make about their students' progress and achievement in reading. Each test assesses a ...

How can we grow rich, authentic mathematics in early childhood settings? This article focuses on a framework, Te Kakano (the seed), which is a metaphor for growing rich mathematics. Te Kakano is set ...

This article explores the way in which an early childhood community was able to support the active participation of a disabled child. The Huakina Mai model provides a framework that conceptualises the ...

This article looks at how the belief system of special education can act as a barrier to inclusion in early childhood education for children with disabilities and their families. The author suggests ...

Curriculum integration is much misunderstood. As a curriculum design and a pedagogy, it requires a commitment to power sharing when making curriculum decisions with students. When teachers negotiate ...

This is an evaluation of the MY FRIENDS Youth programme in New Zealand trial schools. The evaluation focused on whether the programme was implemented as intended, the progress made towards short-term ...

Intercultural education is often a contested area. This is true of Pasifika education, the education in Aotearoa New Zealand of students with links to Pacific Island nations. Despite shifts of framing ...

•&&Relationships and interactions between teachers and students in the classroom are key to effective teaching of Māori students. •&&Effective teachers take a positive, nondeficit view of Māori ...

The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource (PM Benchmarks) provides information about primary students’ level of achievement in reading accurately, fluently, and in understanding unseen texts. As ...