Education
Gain valuable insights into the New Zealand education sector through informative articles.
Discover the unique characteristics of the country’s educational system, including its teaching methods, curriculum frameworks, and student support initiatives.
Whether you are an educator, parent, or interested in the field of education, these articles provide a comprehensive overview of New Zealand’s commitment to promoting knowledge, creativity, and cultural diversity in its schools.
The articles below allow you to explore the challenges and successes of the education sector, and gain a deeper understanding of the factors that contribute to New Zealand’s reputation for excellence in education.
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Health & Safety
New youth vaping study splits opinion
While there's no 'epidemic' in NZ, Māori health advocates remain concerned and have called for government action.
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Education
Op-Ed: A deeper look at the new Climate Change Resources
What good teacher would want to ban Thunberg from the classroom materials? If we want to empower children to respond to the…
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News
How to implement new digital technologies content
MoE shares its new "model process of steps for schools to follow in implementing the digital technologies curriculum content".
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News
How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher
It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…
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Education
I had an idea in the 1980s and to my surprise, it changed education around the world
Explicit guidance and feedback from teachers is more effective in teaching students new content and skills than letting them discover…
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Op-ed
Knowledge is a process of discovery: how constructivism changed education
Constructivism is an education philosophy, not a learning method. So while it encourages students to take more ownership of their…
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Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
Why Aotearoa’s teachers need to get out more
Out-of-classroom learning has been known to induce arrythmia in the most laid-back of educators.
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News
Education workforce: What does NZ need?
Not only to bolster the education workforce but to ensure we have the teachers we want and need for the…
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News
Maintaining school grounds shouldn’t be this hard
Good mower versus bad mower... What’s the difference?
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News
‘Sugar in Schools’ project has many benefits
Dr Dewes says one of the key aims of the project is to encourage young Pacific students to think about…
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Property
Schools welcome maintenance boost, criticise allocation
Principal of state integrated school John Paul College in Rotorua, Patrick Walsh, said schools like his are also struggling with…
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Administration
School support staff to consider new collective agreement
School support staff who are members of NZEI Te Riu Roa will vote on a new collective agreement offer from…
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Education
Voices from the Pacific – Lost in translation
What role as educators do we have in acknowledging the culture of our learners?
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Education
Why Facebook belongs in the math classroom
Most students I encounter have never studied graph theory; it’s rare for it to appear in high school or a…
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Administration
Celebrating men in teaching
For every three female school teachers, there’s only one male teacher, and less than 5 percent of early childhood teachers…
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Property
Cutting edge technology preps for life
Amid a huge technological shakeup, NZ schools are responding to the world’s rapidly changing workforce landscape.
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Industry Voices
Case study: Acoustic treatments for Westmount School MLE
Westmount School refurbished its Kaipara campus to include a new learning centre designed around modern learning and flexible learning spaces.
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Education
New Zealand history: what stories should we be telling?
With New Zealand history becoming compulsory in high schools by 2022, which stories will make the grade, and from whose…
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News
Why it’s important to teach the teachers
The government has long championed the idea of shaping teacher development to ensure it benefits students across priority learning areas...
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Education
Free literacy programme brings blogging to schools
Blogging at least twice a week has completely eliminated the summer literacy slump for the children who took part in…
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Education
More work needed on workload to fix teacher shortage
There is still likely to be a shortfall of 1,020 teachers in 2020
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Education
The problem with Snow White, and what Scandinavia can teach us about it
How Scandinavian schools normalised gender neutral education for its children...
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Health & Safety
Some people benefit from being naturally mentally tough, but it can be taught to those who aren’t
The saying that “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is simplistic, disingenuous, and potentially destructive.
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News
‘I’m in another world’: writing without rules lets kids find their voice, just like professional authors
Ask a child why they write and you might receive a common response: the teacher told me to.
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News
School board sentenced after teacher & student injured on scaffold
“With no safe systems in place students and staff were exposed to a very real risk of injury and this…
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