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Making connections in the teaching and learning of science and technology

Author(s): Alister Jones, Bronwen Cowie, Kathrin Otrel-Cass

Here, the focus is on ways to build continuity, coherence, and connections in learning over time.

| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

More than talk and writing: Exploring the multimodal nature of classroom interactions

Author(s): Alister Jones, Bronwen Cowie, Kathrin Otrel-Cass

This article illustrates the potential of using multiple means to help express and develop ideas.

| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Empowering students to become self-regulating writers: THE JOURNEY OF ONE CLASS

Author(s): Verena Watson

Explicit teaching and modelling are found to be vital among the strategies used by the teacher in this study to support her Year 5 and 6 students in developing self-regulating writing behaviours.

| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

set2005_2_034.pdf | Content type: Set article

Spelling Instruction In Primary Schools

Suggestions on how to analyse children's spelling and thus provide effective spelling instruction.

| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

From early childhood to the first year of school: Connecting practices for mathematics learning and teaching

This article reports from a Teacher-led Innovation Fund project that investigated connecting practices and resources for mathematical learning between a kindergarten and the first year of school....

| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Te tuangi (the clam): A metaphor for teaching, learning and the key competencies

This article explores the shift from “essential skills” to “key competencies” in the school curriculum. Drawing on information gathered from teacher interviews and observations at a New Zealand...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

The development and trial of Māori language tools for assessing oral language from Years 1 to 3

Author(s): Mere Berryman

Māori language education settings have resulted in teachers requiring efficient ways to identify the oral Māori language proficiency of students at the beginning of Māori-immersion schooling and...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters 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...