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An inclusive learning community

Published: 04 Sep 2017

For McAuley High School, respectful caring relationships are at the heart of their learning community in setting the safe and supportive context in which teachers and learners engage and learn. The maintenance of such relationships involves every member of staff.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Inclusion; Teaching; Evaluation indicators; Manaakitanga; Whanaungatanga; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Partnerships between home and community

Published: 04 Sep 2017

This school seeks every opportunity to connect with the groups within its multicultural community to support those groups to connect to one another as well as engage with the school and their children’s learning.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Relationships; Evaluation indicators; Leadership; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Opportunity to learn: a collaborative learning community

Published: 04 Sep 2017

In improving the teaching and learning of mathematics, leaders and teachers are working to develop safe, collaborative environments where every learner (teachers and students) can access the thinking of others to strengthen their knowledge and understanding.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Collaboration; Professional capability; Evaluation indicators; Leadership; Equitable outcomes; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Caring, collaborative, inclusive learning communities

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Invercargill Middle School, students and teachers contribute to, and work in, a supportive learning environment characterised by manaakitanga and whanaungatanga.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Collaboration; Inclusion; Manaakitanga; Whanaungatanga; Evaluation indicators; Teaching; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Te Muka Here Tangata – The strand that binds people

Published: 06 May 2021

This case study explores the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 events on Māori learners in English-medium schools, and the response of leaders, schools and communities in the Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Bicultural curriculum; Bilingual; East Coast region; English-medium; Cultural diversity; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Schools; School community; Te reo Māori; Whānau; Wellbeing; Māori immersion; Māori; Manaakitanga; Inclusive practices; Inclusion; COVID-19; Principals' performance; School leaders; Teachers | Kaiako; Whanaungatanga

Internal evaluation processes

Published: 04 Sep 2017

Evaluation and review are the engine room that drives the improvement agenda forward, involving all within the learning community in an ongoing cycle.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Connecting with families

Published: 04 Sep 2017

A deliberate approach engages family and whānau in learning centred relationships. This approach expands and strengthens the community of learners so that more active support and opportunities are provided for all the children.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Deliberate acts of leadership

Published: 13 Jun 2017

A school principal talks about how he works with his teachers and Māori community to develop a bicultural school context within which both Treaty partners are acknowledged and valued. A teacher and members of the Māori community describe how this principal’s leadership has facilitated a reciprocal relationship between the school and their local Māori community.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

School Evaluation Indicators

Published: 31 Mar 2021

The Education Review Office (ERO) first introduced evaluation indicators in 2003, revising them in 2010. This new version reflects a deepening understanding of how schools improve, and the role that evaluation plays in that process. It also reflects a strengthened relationship between ERO’s approaches to evaluation in English-medium and Māori-medium settings. It supports external and internal evaluation of schools.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Evaluation indicators; Indicators

Te Ara Poutama Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most

Published: 31 Mar 2021

Te Ara Poutama is the core of Ngā Ara Whai Hui: Quality Framework for Evaluation and Improvement in Early Childhood Services. This is the framework for ERO’s approaches to reviewing early childhood services. The indicators, for outcomes and processes, are a central resource for use by ERO and the services themselves in evaluating quality in early childhood education and identifying where improvement is needed.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Te Ara Poutama; Ngā Ara Whai Hua; Indicators

Relationships for learning

Published: 04 Sep 2017

A learning community characterised by whanaungatanga and manaakitanga creates the challenge and support needed to develop learning to learn capabilities and achieve successful learning outcomes.

This video was filmed at McAuley High School.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Relationships; Curriculum; Teaching; Evaluation; Whanaungatanga; Manaakitanga; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators poster

Published: 07 Sep 2020

This poster presents, the indicators from ERO’s Te Ara Poutama|Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most, published in 2020. It shows the outcome indicators, which are the learning outcomes for children from Te Whāriki. It also shows the process indicators for the learning and organisational conditions in early childhood services that support children’s learning outcomes.

Audience:: Early learning; Education

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Evaluation; Indicators; Improvement; Te Whāriki; Collaboration to improve learner outcomes

Including Students with High Needs Primary Schools

Published: 10 Jul 2013

This ERO evaluation reports on primary schools' progress in relation to the Government's Success for All policy. Success for All is about getting all schools to demonstrate inclusive practice for students with special needs.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: High needs; Special education; Inclusion; Ethical standards; Stand Children's Services Tu Maia Whanau; Inclusive practices; Group Special Education (GSE); Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB); Primary

Including Students with High Needs: School Questionnaire Responses (2)

Published: 09 Sep 2012

All children deserve the right to an education including those with special education needs. Through its Success for All policy, the Government expects all schools to demonstrate inclusive practice for children with special education needs by the end of 2014. This report presents the findings of a questionnaire where schools assess their own provisions for students with special education needs. It follows on from a similar report produced in early 2012.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Special education; High needs; Inclusive practices; Questionnaire; Teacher aides; Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)

Shared ownership

Published: 04 Sep 2017

Senior leaders at Invercargill Middle School have put processes in place to ensure that all teachers participate in and contribute to the co-construction of decisions about how best to move forward. The principal describes the approach as ‘change coming from the classroom, not the principals office’.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Leadership; Professional development; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Stewardship: working relationships

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Invercargill Middle School, the way in which school trustees and leaders work together fosters an appreciative and respectful environment that acknowledges the contributions of everyone in the learning community.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Stewardship; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Leadership for equity and excellence

Published: 04 Sep 2017

The senior leadership team are responsible for specific portfolios and work interdependently to realise the shared vision of equity and excellence for all.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Leadership; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Leaders of learning

Published: 11 Jun 2017

The provision of opportunities for collaborative professional learning are designed to build adaptive expertise through enabling the participation and contribution of all staff members.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Māori succeeding as Māori

Published: 04 Sep 2017

A school principal talks about how he works with his school community to develop an environment where Māori learners are supported and can succeed as Māori.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Māori student achievement; Māori; Leadership; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Stewardship: strategic resourcing

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Manurewa Central School, careful financial management over many years has enabled the provision of high quality facilities and resources that enhance the school environment and learning opportunities available to students and their families and whanau and the community.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Stewardship; Resourcing; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua