Letting go of traditional "one-sided" teaching practices and moving towards power sharing and learning with students can be a daunting and challenging process. This article describes one teacher's ...

The overlaps between the requirements of good research and good practice provide both a foundation and a rationale for the development of teachers as researchers. Viviane Robinson examines some of the ...

Since 1996 in Aotearoa/New Zealand, we have had a bicultural early childhood curriculum, Te Whariki (Ministry of Education, 1996). This document was developed with regard to the early childhood ...

Advancing research-based classroom assessment (CA) in K-12 schools is a difficult and often opaque process. Rather than challenges that can be overcome, educators striving to more fully implement ...

The role and place of Māori people as the indigenous people of this land has influenced the culturally centred development of evaluation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Within this article the cultural value ...

Lifting student attendance, as well as understanding the drivers for non-attendance through data, are government priorities ...

Kaupapa Māori principals have the power to transform the educational experience of Māori students in mainstream classrooms. For example, 'tino rangatiratanga' requires both children and parents to be ...

Early Childhood Folio is seeking articles for this special issue. It follows the University of Waikato Early Years Research Centre annual teachers’ conference of the same name, and the publication of ...

Data literacy enables teachers to use information collected about students and their learning to take data-informed instructional action. This article outlines two approaches developed by teachers to ...

This article reports on a research project that investigated the connections between early childhood teachers’ visual arts pedagogies and children’s engagement in the visual arts as a tool for ...

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our recent PAT Tuhituhi | PAT Writing webinars, especially those who submitted such an excellent range of questions. We hope that they were answered to your ...

Children’s inquiry is an approach where tamariki explore and research their own questions and curiosities over sustained periods of time with the support of their kaiako. This article explores ...