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Priorities for Children's Learning in Early Childhood Services

Published: 27 May 2013

This national report is one of two reports that present the findings of a 2012 national evaluation about curriculum priorities. 

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Curriculum
Te Whāriki
Māori
Pacific

Priorities for Childrens Learning in Early Childhood Services: Good Practice

Published: 01 Nov 2013

This good practice report presents examples from five early childhood services where priorities for children’s learning were well considered and reflected on.

Audience:
Early learning
Māori-medium
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Early childhood services
Good practice
Te Whāriki
Māori
Pacific

Early Learning Curriculum

Published: 31 Oct 2016

This retrospective study synthesises findings from 17 national reports about curriculum implementation in early learning services, published over the last 10 years.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Whāriki
Early learning
Diversity
Bicultural curriculum

Preparedness to implement Te Whāriki (2017)

Published: 27 Jun 2019

ERO is undertaking a series of evaluations on the implementation of Te Whāriki: He whāriki mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa. This report examines how prepared services are to implement Te Whāriki, including their engagement with professional learning and development, and determining 'what matters here' and next steps.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Whāriki
Professional capability
Teachers | Kaiako

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

Te Whāriki (2017): Awareness Towards Implementation

Published: 12 Dec 2019

ERO’s final report in the Te Whāriki series summarises the findings of previous reports and includes the last two focus areas for the curriculum – how services decide ‘what learning matters here’ and how well they were developing learning-focused partnerships with parents and whānau.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Whāriki
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
Teachers | Kaiako

Awareness and confidence to work with Te Whāriki (2017)

Published: 12 Jul 2018

In this evaluation, ERO wanted to find out how aware and confident leaders and kaiako in early learning services were as they began to work with the updated curriculum, Te Whāriki (2017).

Audience:
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Whāriki
Teachers | Kaiako

Te Kura Huanui: The treasures of successful pathways

Published: 08 Jul 2021

Te Kura Huanui: The treasures of successful pathways and supporting documentaries explore the Māori-medium education pathway, through a rich collection of interviews and research conducted in partnership with early founders, whānau, leaders, graduates, kaiako, kaimahi and kaumatua.

Audience:
Māori-medium
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Best practice
Community
Diversity
Equitable outcomes
Immersion
Inclusion
Identity
Kōhanga Reo
Kauapapa Māori
Kura
Knowledge building
Māori-medium
Mātauranga Māori
Māori student achievement
Māori parents and whanau
Māori learners
Māori immersion
Māori Education Evaluation
Manaakitanga
Māori
Literacy and numeracy
Methodology
Te Kōhanga Reo
Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust
Te reo Māori
Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa
Teachers | Kaiako
Teaching
Tikanga Māori
Te ao Māori
Wellbeing
Whānau
Whanaungatanga
Children's success

Hauhaketia Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho Kia Puāwai Ai: Unearth Our Ancestral Treasures So that We May Prosper

Published: 31 Dec 2017

Evaluation insights by the ERO, alongside contributions from the Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust and kōhanga reo whānau inform the findings of this report, which highlights effective practice in kōhanga reo, specifically the support children need to grow and thrive through a quality immersion pathway.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Kōhanga Reo
Best practice
Māori immersion
Māori-medium

Evaluation Judgement Rubric

Published: 02 Sep 2020

This Judgement Rubric is an evaluation tool for use in ERO’s evaluations of early childhood services and by the services in their internal evaluation. The rubric is based on the indicators in Te Ara Poutama|Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Content type:
Basic page
Topics:
Evaluation
Te Whāriki
Quality
Collaboration to improve learner outcomes

Te Kahu Whakahaumaru – Ngā mahi a te rangai mātauranga Māori (English)

Published: 19 Jan 2021

Te Pou Mataaho, ERO’s evaluation and research group, and Te Uepū ā Motu, ERO’s national evaluation and review team, pursued this evaluation to provide an evidence base about the initial impacts of Covid-19 on Māori-medium education and how the sector responded.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
COVID-19
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Schools
Māori-medium
Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

Tuia te here tangata: Making meaningful connections

Published: 03 Mar 2016

In Term 3, 2014, ERO undertook a cluster review of five Puna Whakatupu as part of scheduled education reviews. During the course of these reviews, we identified a range of good practice that was investigated further and has become Tuia te here tangata: Making meaningful connections.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Māori-medium
Early learning
Te Puna Whakatupu

Te Kahu Whakahaumaru: Māori continue to show resilience across Māori-medium education

Published: 10 Dec 2020

In Aotearoa, Māori-medium education experienced significant disruption when the outbreak of Covid-19 forced kura to close their doors, and whānau and kaiako to adjust to home schooling and distance learning. Among the many challenges were access to technology and resources with Māori communities among the most affected.

Audience:
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
COVID-19
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Schools
Māori-medium
Teachers | Kaiako
Resilience
Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

Working with Te Whāriki

Published: 26 May 2013

This national report is one of two reports that present the findings of a 2012 national evaluation about curriculum priorities.

Audience:
Early learning
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Whāriki
Early childhood services
Curriculum
Bicultural curriculum

Evaluation Indicators for Kura Kaupapa Māori reviews

Published: 04 Jan 2014

We worked closely with Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa (Te Rūnanga Nui) to develop and monitor a specialist review methodology for Te Aho Matua kura kaupapa Māori. These indicators are used during reviews in Te Aho Matua Kura Kaupapa Māori.

Audience:
Education
Māori-medium
Schools
Content type:
Basic page
Topics:
Māori-medium
Te Aho Matua

Te Kura Huanui : Ko ngā kura o ngā ara angitu

Published: 08 Jul 2021

I roto i Te Kura Huanui: Ko ngā kura o ngā ara angitu, ko ngā uiui me ngā whānau Māori, kaiārahi, kaiako, kaimahi, kaumātua hoki e tūhura ana i te ngākau titikaha o ngā hapori ki te whakarauora, ki te whakapakari hoki i te reo Māori me ngā tikanga Māori mō ā rātou mokopuna, tamariki, uri whakatupu anō hoki. 

Audience:
Māori-medium
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Best practice
Community
Diversity
Equitable outcomes
Immersion
Inclusion
Identity
Kōhanga Reo
Kauapapa Māori
Kura
Knowledge building
Māori-medium
Mātauranga Māori
Māori student achievement
Māori parents and whanau
Māori learners
Māori immersion
Māori Education Evaluation
Manaakitanga
Māori
Literacy and numeracy
Methodology
Te Kōhanga Reo
Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust
Te reo Māori
Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa
Teachers | Kaiako
Teaching
Tikanga Māori
Te ao Māori
Wellbeing
Whānau
Whanaungatanga
Children's success

How ERO Reviews Kaupapa Māori and Māori Medium Kura

Published: 31 Mar 2021

Māori medium kura are reviewed by Te Uepū ā-Motu, our Māori Review Services team.  We developed a review process with Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori for Te Aho Matua kura. You will find links to the indicators, frameworks and assurance statements here.

Audience:
Education
Māori-medium
Schools
Content type:
Basic page
Topics:
Māori-medium
Kura

The Quality of Assessment in Early Childhood Education

Published: 01 Nov 2007

Assessment informs an early childhood service’s programme and educators’ teaching practices. ERO evaluated the quality of assessment in all the early childhood services reviewed in Terms 3 and 4, 2006.

Services were at varying stages in their understanding and implementation of assessment practices, as not all had yet participated in professional development.

Audience:
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Assessment
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Te Whāriki
Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars
Early childhood services

Engaging with Te Whāriki (2017)

Published: 15 Nov 2018

New Zealand’s early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki, was updated in April, 2017. Te Whāriki (2017) reflects the changes in theory, practice and early learning contexts that have occurred over the last 20 years. ERO is undertaking a series of evaluations focused on the implementation of Te Whāriki in early learning services from mid-2017 until the end of 2019.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Parents
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Whāriki
Early childhood curriculum

Hauhaketia Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho Kia Puāwai Ai

Published: 31 Dec 2017

E whakakoia ana tēnei aromātai i te tino hua motuhake o te mātauranga rumaki reo Māori o te kounga kairangi, me te hāpai whakahirahira anō hoki o tēnei i te tamaiti, mai i tōna whānautanga mai. Kei te mārama pū ngā kitenga, a, e whakatau ana hoki i te ariā e kī ana, e āhei ake ana ngā tamariki ki te eke angitu hei ākonga nā te noho ki tētahi taiao e whakanui ana, e whakamana ana hoki i te reo, te ahurea, me te tuakiri.

Audience:
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Kōhanga Reo
Best practice
Māori immersion
Māori-medium