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Globally delayed development: Developing students’ motor skills

There seems to be an increase in children entering school with globally delayed development, including poor gross and fine motor skills. What ways are there to increase these students’ skills so they...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement: Wānangatia te Putanga Tauira

| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon set2017_2_057.pdf | Content type: Set article

Culturally responsive leadership: How one principal in an urban primary school responded successfully to Māori student achievement

Addressing the achievement disparities that exist within New Zealand education for Māori is identified by the Ministry of Education as being a critical challenge for school leaders that requires...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Aromatawai reo ā-waha: Oral Māori-language assessment tools

This Assessment News article discusses an important opportunity to develop and extend the Māori-medium knowledge base by helping teachers both to identify the oral Māori-language proficiency of...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Twice-exceptional learners in New Zealand schools: Teacher perspectives

Twice-exceptional (gifted with associated learning difficulties) students face complex learning challenges because of their varying combinations of high ability alongside domains of learning...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

The transition from kindergarten to school for children with special needs

Interviews with nine families about the transition to school for their special needs children showed that parents faced rejection and a multitude of dilemmas over access to resources, specialist...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

Young children’s learning in early education settings and at home: Mothers’ understandings

This article draws on research that was carried out in a kindergarten and two junior classes in one community. It presents findings about the understandings that mothers have of what and...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio 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

Voices from the field: Insights into the mental wellbeing of early childhood leaders

Early childhood teachers enact a relationship-based pedagogy in contexts requiring their consistent emotional labour, not just with children but also with their families. Leaders have additional...
| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

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