New Zealand Curriculum sites and communities includes NZ Curriculum Online, Key Competencies Online, Middling schooling, and Senior secondary guides.
New Zealand Curriculum Online plays a pivotal role in gathering, organising, and disseminating information to support curriculum implementation and inform schools as they design curriculum.
Following the significant and destructive earthquakes that struck Christchurch in February and June 2011, CORE Education was contracted by the Ministry of Education to scope, and report on the impact of the earthquakes on participation in early childhood education and gaps in education provision in east Christchurch.
The contract between CORE Education and the Ministry of Education was guided by two expected outcomes for the project:
This Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) funded research project will investigate ways of enhancing children’s learning journeys from ECE into school and explore the impact of transition practices over time.
The research will help to address some of the current gaps in understanding by addressing four broad themes. Firstly, providing insights into improving transitions to school for Māori children. Secondly, exploring the alignment between the ECE and school curricula, and the ways in which shared understandings between teachers in each sector might support children’s learning as they move from ECE to school. Thirdly, it will focus on establishing and maintaining reciprocal and respectful relationships between sectors.
CORE Education organises a number of educational conferences and events throughout New Zealand.
CORE Education, as a preferred supplier to the Ministry of Education, contracts to the Ministry of Education for Conference Event Management Services. Meetings, events, huis or conferences are organised on behalf of the Ministry for educators who attend throughout the country.
The Ministry of Education has commissioned CORE Education to conduct an independent evaluative study of the impacts on schools, teachers, students and their families of the co-location and relocation of schools after the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011.
The key research questions for the study are:
Literacy learning in e-learning contexts: Mining the New Zealand action research evidence is a project sponsored by TLRI. Grant holders are Vince Ham and Anne Hatherly (CORE Education), Sue McDowall (NZCER), Ronnie Davey (UC).
Researchers and teachers (ECE, primary, and secondary) are collaborating to re-analyse data from a range of action research inquiries on e-learning (undertaken as part of e-fellowships and the ECE ICT professional learning programmes) to investigate and build theory about the literacy learning that can take place in e-learning contexts.
The aims of the project are to:
This is a Royal Society of New Zealand programme funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. CORE Education facilitators oversee the programme workshops, support, and an online community.
The Royal Society has for many years run a teacher Fellowship program during which teachers were seconded to science-based host organisations for periods of up to one year, in order to get a taste of what "real" science is really like.
The Te Marautanga o Aotearoa programme is designed to assist schools, teachers and communities to implement Te Marautanga o Aotearoa—part of the national Curriculum. This is a Ministry of Education funded project.
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa and the New Zealand Curriculum collectively make the national curriculum of New Zealand. This provision of a curriculum developed by indigenous educators specifically for indigenous students is the first in the world.
Since the launch of Te Marautanga o Aotearoa in 2008, CORE Education has had staff involved in the consultations, trials, research and facilitation with Māori medium teachers nationally.
CORE Education and the Asia NZ Foundation have worked closely together on several initiatives.
These initiatives include :
In recognition of the significant role education plays in preparing young New Zealander’s to understand and be aware of Asia, CORE Education has developed the New Zealand Curriculum and Asia Guide to support school leaders and curriculum leaders in their development of Asia Aware schools and students. Hard copies of this document are available from Asia NZ and a PDF can be downloaded by scrolling down to the bottom of this page:
Infants and Toddlers (2010–2013) is a Ministry of Education funded online professional learning and networking programme.
The target audience for the Infants and Toddlers programme is educators from a diverse range of education and care settings throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Each of these has provision of care and education for children under two. The programme is open to any individual or group, and offers both synchronous and asynchronous 'anywhere, anytime' opportunities for educators to engage with current thinking and practices.
New Zealand Curriculum Online is full and highly valuable.
