The whakataukī of the Educational Review Office (ERO) demonstrates the importance we place on the educational achievement of our children and young people:
Ko te Tamaiti te Pūtake o te Kaupapa
The Child – the Heart of the Matter
In our daily work we have the privilege of going into early childhood services and schools, giving us a current picture of what is happening throughout the country. We collate and analyse this information so that it can be used to benefit the education sector and, therefore, the children in our education system. ERO’s reports contribute sound information for work undertaken to support the Government’s policies.
This report, Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour – An Evaluation of Cluster Management, follows ERO’s previous reviews of resource teacher services: Evaluation of the Resource Teacher: Learning and Behaviour Service, and its companion publication, Examples of Good Practice (both in 2004); Evaluation of the Resource Teacher: Literacy Service (2004) and Examples of Good Practice (2006); and An Evaluation of the Resource Teachers: Māori Service (2008).
Successful delivery in education relies on many people and organisations across the community working together for the benefit of children and young people. We trust the information in ERO’s evaluations will help them in their task.
Graham Stoop
Chief Review Officer
September 2009