Shifting the focus: Achievement information for professional learning Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 As professionals, teachers must continually update, deepen, and refine their knowledge and skills through professional development. The goal of professional development should be to raise student achievement.…
The sustainability of professional development in literacy Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 Part 1 Changing and sustaining teachers’ expectations through professional development in literacy This report forms Part One of the report to the participating schools and the Ministry…
Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 This Literature Review on Pasifika Education Issues was commissioned to provide valuable information about those issues for Pacific education which have been researched, and those which…
Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Report on an investigation into what the public thinks, knows, and feels about science. The research involved a telephone survey of 800 members of the New Zealand public, and small-scale…
Review of future-focused research on teaching and learning Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This Review is based upon information retrieved from the world wide web about recently completed or on-going large-scale international research initiatives which are future-focused and specifically…
What makes for effective teacher professional development in ICT Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Since 1999, the Ministry of Education has provided funding for clusters of schools to develop three year ICT professional development programmes for their teachers. 23 clusters…
Picking up the Pace Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This research project delivered concentrated professional development in literacy instruction to groups of early childhood and new entrant teachers in decile one schools in Mangere and…
Questioning Gender: Snapshots from Explaining and Addressing Gender Differences in the New Zealand Compulsory School Sector Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2001 The material in this report is drawn directly from an earlier, much larger report, Explaining and Addressing Gender Differences in the Compulsory School Sector: A Literature…
Tikanga Ako Moroki o Niu Tīreni: Papa Kupu He maha ngā kura o Niu Tireni e whakarākei ana i a rātou tikanga ako, ngā pūnaha, ngā taiao, te whakamahinga o ngā hangarau matihiko, me…
Evaluation of the Teacher-Led Innovation Fund: Final Report The Teacher-led Innovation Fund (TLIF) is a Ministry of Education initiative designed to support quality practice that improves student achievement and that can be shared and…
