
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.
Rediscovering our world class learning and teaching
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.
Schools are finding new ways to integrate arts and science into the curricula, like this Kawerau school and its student-led photography project.
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.
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.
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.
We focus on the curricula in this first issue of our new professional journal.
Schools are finding new ways to integrate arts and science into the curricula, like this Kawerau school and its student-led photography project.
A long-forgotten and disused gully behind a high school in Hamilton has turned into a science project for schools in the area.
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.
Before the changeover to Tomorrow’s Schools, the Department of Education had a curriculum development unit (CDU) that represented all areas of the curriculum.