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Winter 201811 Oct 2018
Our year of educational waiting
For those concerned about the future of education in New Zealand, this has often been a strange year of waiting for the outcomes of multiple reviews.
Kawerau, Ripeka Lessels, Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, Te Whata Tau a Putauaki, Video, Winter 201830 Jul 2018
Portraits of Tupuna
Schools are finding new ways to integrate arts and science into the curricula, like this Kawerau school and its student-led photography project.
Winter 201827 Jul 2018
Understanding, recognising and knowing
Across the country, teachers report that there are more children with high learning needs and the resources and funding to help these children are over-stretched. Education professionals talk here about how they deliver the curriculum to children with learning needs.
Winter 201827 Jul 2018
We are all in this waka together
Janice Jones, deputy principal at Karori West Normal School, says the most important thing about being a truly inclusive school, in which every child thrives, is that the whole school is in the waka together.
Winter 201824 Jul 2018
Stunning results from culturally responsive maths
Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities (DMIC) aims to build a sense of safety in both cultural identity and group problem solving. It is showing extraordinary progress in students.
Winter 201822 Jul 2018
Liberating creative practice
We focus on the curricula in this first issue of our new professional journal.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Photo project embodies ako
Schools are finding new ways to integrate arts and science into the curricula, like this Kawerau school and its student-led photography project.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Forgotten gully becomes focus for science learning in Hamilton
A long-forgotten and disused gully behind a high school in Hamilton has turned into a science project for schools in the area.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Renaissance of the arts
One of the most significant casualties of nine years of focusing on literacy and numeracy at the expense of everything else schools do, has been the arts.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Resetting the clock
Before the changeover to Tomorrow’s Schools, the Department of Education had a curriculum development unit (CDU) that represented all areas of the curriculum.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Each one, teach one
We live in exciting times. This adage is often used when nobody really seems to know what is going to happen next.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Running the Country: A Look Inside New Zealand’s Government
A review of Running the Country: A Look Inside New Zealand’s Government by Maria Gill.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Recipes for Messy Play
A review of Recipes for Messy Play, from New Shoots Publishing.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Two books: A review of Te Whare and Ko Kiwi Mā
Reviews of Te Whare and Ko Kiwi Mā, two books by Ngaere Roberts and Christine Dale.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Find a network!
Te Whāriki is being used more in the first years of school with positive results and schools forming networks to implement ideas. Some early childhood teachers are moving to primary to take advantage of the change.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
The art of future-proofing
With just 18 months until schools need to implement the new Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko curricula, how do educators make that transition?
Helen Collins, Inclusivity, Maths, NZ Curriculum, Video, Winter 201816 Jul 2018
DMIC and Inclusive Practices
Collins is a teacher at Corinna School in Porirua. She is passionate about inclusive teaching and learning practices., and is a practitioner of the Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities (DMIC) pedagogy.
Hita Foster, Merivale School, Tauranga, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Otepou, Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, Video, Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
Hita Foster shares her kaupapa of Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, inspiring educators and schools to draw ideas from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa when designing their own curriculum in their areas.
Alex Gunn, ECE, Kura, NZ Curriculum, Te Whāriki, University of Otago, Video, Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Thinking Curiously: Critical Theories and Te Whāriki
Dr. Alex Gunn thinks curiously about the place and possibility of critically oriented curriculum from early childhood education me ngā Kōhanga Reo into kura and school.
Winter 201816 Jul 2018
Resources from gully restoration and education centre project
The Fairfield Project, administered by the Kukutāruhe Education Trust, is a restoration project with a difference – its vision is to develop, in the Fairfield Community (in Hamilton), an Ecological and Education Centre with a focus on all facets of environmental education and practice aimed at a sustainable future.