Review tools to use during a home-based review with ERO
Below are tools and frameworks we use during a home-based service review as well as resources that might be useful to guide your practice.
Ngā Ara Whai Hua
Ngā Ara Whai Hua one pager
Ngā Ara Whai Hua is ERO’s quality framework for evaluation and improvement in early childhood services. It connects accountability and improvement and recognises the value of both internal and external evaluation.
Te Ara Poutama indicators of quality
Te Ara Poutama describes the conditions that contribute to quality early childhood education and the learning outcomes that matter for children. ERO uses the indicators when evaluating what is happening for children and how the service’s learning and organisational conditions support them.
Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators poster
Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators poster | Education Review Office
Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators describe the teaching, leadership and organisational practices that research shows are most important for helping children experience high-quality learning, wellbeing and positive outcomes
ECE Improvement Framework
Improvement Framework (teacher-led services)
The ECE Improvement Framework supports services and ERO to understand where practice sits on an improvement journey. It can help a service identify strengths, choose practical improvement priorities and monitor progress.
ECE sector resources
We’ve written this guide to help parents and whānau understand what matters most for their child and their learning in an early childhood service.
Early childhood is an important time in children’s life when they learn and develop faster than at any other time. This guide helps parents and whānau to know what they can expect from an early childhood service and what questions they might ask about the quality of the service.
This is a guide to quality improvement planning for early childhood services. It supports services to plan for improvement based on the findings from internal and external evaluation and includes some examples.