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Getting off to a good start: Employment status and beginning teachers

Author(s): Lexie Grudnoff
The first year of teaching is a critical stage in a teacher's professional life. Many beginning teachers are employed in short-term positions, but we know very little about how employment status...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

The active construction of curricula: Primary teachers' perspectives

Interviews with primary teachers revealed questions of control of operational curricula. Schools hold significant power over curricula through their organisation, planning, and assessment...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Male teachers in primary schools

In this article Penni Cushman reviews several studies that have surveyed male school-leavers and practising male teachers on their attitudes towards teaching as a career and their experiences in the...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Change & the New Zealand primary school curriculum

Schools have adopted different strategies in their attempts to cope with all the recent curriculum changes, and teachers have different views on the new curriculum documents—but how new is new?
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: Comparing primary and secondary teachers in New Zealand

Author(s): Gavin Brown
The conceptions teachers have about assessment are assumed to influence their practices and to be consistent with the jurisdictional and policy frameworks in which they work. This paper compares two...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

The problem of enactment: The influence of teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs on their uptake and implementation of feedback-related ideas and practices

Using an interpretive, qualitative case study methodology, the current study investigated 20 primary school teachers’ beliefs and understandings about feedback, and the use of feedback to enhance...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Joining in the dance: What can be learned from high self-efficacy teachers about teaching dance?

Primary teachers in New Zealand schools are required to teach dance education as part of a balanced classroom programme. This responsibility requires that teachers have positive beliefs...
| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article