Educational Related Websites

Education Organisations/Resources

edCentre provides information about New Zealand education and access to educational services and advice.

Education Gazette is a publication that discusses current educational issues and lists education and teaching vacancies.

Education Review Office (ERO) ERO reviews schools and early childhood education services every three years, and publishes national reports on current education practice.

Multi Serve = Awhina Rau
Multi-Serve Education Trust provides independent consultancy and professional development services to schools.

Ministry of Education – this is their official site.

Ministry of Social Development – lists the Agenda for Children

Office for the Children's Commissioner

Teach NZ is a Ministry of Education organisation with information about everything from the NZ teaching environment to teaching scholarships.

Tertiary Education Commission is responsible for funding the Government's contribution to tertiary education and training.

Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI)– The Online Learning Centre is a bilingual portal-plus web community which provides quality assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research is an independent educational research organisation with a bicultural focus. NZCER provides information, advice and assistance to those involved in education including policymakers, teachers, advisors or researchers.

The New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa (NZEI ) is New Zealand 's largest education union supporting teachers and support staff working in primary, area and secondary schools and early childhood centres.

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) quality-assures secondary and tertiary qualifications and education providers, evaluates overseas qualifications and administers the New Zealand Register of Quality Assured Qualifications and the National Qualifications Framework, including NCEA.

The New Zealand Teachers Council provides information about the process of Teacher Registration, an online register of teachers with a current practising certificate and access to application forms.

The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand is an organisation for teachers run by teachers with a focus on professional issues.

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Maori Education/Resources:

Centre for Maori and Pacific Development Research
Research institution at the University of Waikato.

Hana Limited Teaching resources in te reo Maori: Te ao Hurihuri, designed to meet New Zealand curriculum standards at levels 3 and 4: Maori cosmology, astronomy and creation story; Ahurea ki Tua for secondary school students, an adaptation of a resource called Cultural Futures and He Puia, he Iwi, retellings of Maori legends.

Maori Education
Work of the Ministry of Education in the field of Maori education. Includes guidelines and application forms for the Government Boarding Bursary Scheme.

Maori Education Trust = Te Kaupapa Matauranga Mo Te Iwi Maori
The Trust's core activities comprise: advocacy for improved Maori educational achievement ; promoting tino rangatirotanga in education development ; administration and sponsorship of a wide variety of scholarships and grants; the establishment of Te Manatu Matauranga Maori, an autonomous Maori education authority.

Maori.org.nz Includes marae, Kapa Haka, email directory, educational resources. Also virtual whare, images of manu, weapons, tukutuku and information on marae protocol and myths and legends.

Maori in mainstream : te tere auraki The professional development strategy Te Tere Auraki (to 'navigate the mainstream river') is focused on improving teaching and learning for Maori students in mainstream schools.

Rauemi reo Maori : New Zealand maths
Maori language mathematics site which provides teachers with units of work and activities to support the teaching of mathematics in the New Zealand curriculum.

TAKOA : te aka Kumara o Aotearoa : A directory of Maori organisations and resource people. Information about scholarships available through various sources, iwi map and Maori canoe resource.

Te Hiringa i te Mahara = The Power of the Mind
A national professional development project for Maori secondary school teachers, especially teachers of Te Reo Maori and Maori departments.

Nartam: National Association of Resource Teachers & Advisors of Maori Provides lesson plans and other resources, contacts. Bilingual site.

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Secondary Schools/Resources:

Teachers at work Supplying teachers around the globe with free, high quality resources to make life just that bit easier in a digital world.

eLearn : New Zealand's tertiary elearning portal Provides access to information about tertiary education providers and the e-learning courses that they offer, various tertiary education-related services, and digital learning objects. Aims to encourage collaborative activity between educators, government, communities and industry.

e-Learnz is an open consortium of New Zealand universities, polytechnics and other organisations working in e-Learning for tertiary education.

Huarahi ki te ao tohu : Maori Qualifications New Zealand Qualifications Authority bimonthly newsletter covering news on national Maori qualifications.

Independent Schools of New Zealand Information about independent (private) schools - types, locations, advantages, fees.

Learning Media = Te Pou Taki Korero Educational publisher providing contract publishing services and professional development programme's to the Ministry of Education. Includes curriculum-linked web resources.

New Zealand History Online a resource for teachers

New Zealand Post Primary Teachers Association. The PPTA is a voluntary trade union and professional association. Teachers employed in state and integrated secondary schools, area schools, technicraft centres and community education centres are eligible to join the Association.

New Zealand School Trustees Association = Te Whakaroputanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa : NZSTA
The New Zealand School Trustees Association is a national organisation which represents the views of, and provides services to, member boards of trustees.

Schools' Links Database of school contact details.

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Inquiry Learning

Learning Enhancement Associates, Whakaaro-Hia: Think!

Reason!Able Provides a range of strategies for critical thinking.

Brainstorming Toolbox A variety of ideas, strategies and reasons for brainstorming.

Assessment Inquiry in the Classroom Chapter 11: Assessment in the Inquiry Classroom, Chapter 12 Assessment in Science Inquiry

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) Information includes Classroom Assessment, Framing the Context, Aligning the Assessment with the Context and Alternative Assessment.

Inquiry-minded schools An ongoing inquiry cycle model to improve student learning.

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E-Learning

NetSafe Information on keeping safe while surfing the Internet

Interface Mag ICT magazine for teachers

Lunchbox Information on e-learning research

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