Ministry links
The New Zealand Curriculum is aligned to and supported by these Ministry of Education websites:
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If you are Māori, and teaching at Yrs 7 to 13 (Māori- or English-medium) in any curriculum area, then Ako Panuku is for YOU. Access support with educational information, resources, professional development and career guidance.
Asia Knowledge is a priority in The New Zealand Curriculum as a context for integrated learning and as a context for the future-focused themes.
Assessment is the process of gathering, analysing, interpreting, and using information about students' progress and achievement to improve teaching and learning.
The Ministry's Best Evidence Synthesis programme brings together the best research into what works to improve educational outcomes, and what can make a bigger difference for the education of all children and young people.
Competent Children, Competent Learners
This project followed a group of students from early childhood education through into secondary school. It looks at how students' lives impact on their development.
Digistore is a storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary.
Down the Back of the Chair is the Ministry of Education's catalogue of teaching and learning resources for schools.
Materials, tools, resources, news, and discussions to help solve day-to-day problems and issues that arise in the role of being a principal or leader.
Education for Enterprise (E4E) is about promoting an approach to learning that is real, relevant, and gives students responsibility for their learning.
Resource to support teachers to explore digital content, software, and other e-learning tools and contexts into literacy teaching and learning.
Enabling e-Learning brings together relevant information, resources and communities to support schools in developing their e-learning practice.
Supports schools, teachers, students, and parents in assisting gifted and talented students to reach their full potential academically, emotionally, and socially.
A school-based professional development programme focused on improving culturally responsive leadership and teacher practices to ensure Māori learners enjoy educational success as Māori.
Mēhemea he whare whakaakoranga tōu i raro i Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga ka taea e koe te whakauru ki te paetukutuku Down the Back of the Chair ki te tirotiro ki ngā tikanga ake māu hei tono, ki te whakatakoto tono hoki.
Images to inspire teaching and learning in Te Reo Māori and support teachers as they use Te Aho Arataki Marau mō te Ako i Te Reo Māori - Kura Auraki.
The literal meaning of this resource is ‘a growing language is a living language’, signifying the way languages grow and evolve, and the importance of learning and using languages to keep them alive and dynamic.
Hoatu-Hōmai is a site for all New Zealand kura/schools to give away, exchange, or request various types of free educational resources.
Provides information, guidance, and resources to support schools in developing and building on their home–school partnerships.
This project demonstrates the New Zealand Curriculum in practice for students with the highest learning support needs.
INSTEP: Inservice Teacher Education Practice
This project is designed to improve the quality of inservice teacher education practice, and to support the effectiveness of teachers in schools.
Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success: The draft Mãori Education Strategy 2008-2012 is a broad reaching draft strategy aiming to transform the education sector, ensuring Mãori enjoy education success as Mãori.
This new website is designed to support teachers and curriculum leaders as they introduce the key competencies in The New Zealand Curriculum.
Kua whakawhanakehia tētahi rauemi rongorau hou mā ngā wharekura mō ngā waiata me ngā haka e pā ana ki Te Hokowhitu-ā-Tū.
Language Enhancing the Achievement
LEAP is a professional learning resource developed for teachers working in mainstream New Zealand classrooms with bilingual Pasifika students.
Literacy Learning Progressions
The Literacy Learning Progressions describe the specific literacy knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students draw on in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the curriculum.
This site contains teacher support material for the three collections of te reo Māori books, He Kohikohinga 34–52, Te Tautoko 47–64 and Te Wharekura 68–85.
Resources to support teachers and educators of years 7-10.
The Ministry of Education website for New Zealand maths.
NZQA ensures that New Zealand qualifications are valued as credible and robust both nationally and internationally.
This site supports the achievement of Pasifika learners by providing links to quality resources, research, and other materials for teachers and school leaders.
This site is for both primary and secondary teachers of science.
Secondary Futures Hoenga Auaha Taiohi
This project encourages discussion and debate about the role and purpose of secondary education in New Zealand twenty years from now – creating a mandate for change.
The Secondary portal contains latest news items, secondary essentials, key resources, transitions and pathways, and a media gallery of videos with a secondary focus.
Senior Secondary Curriculum Guides
These guides have been designed to help secondary teachers create quality teaching and learning programmes.
Social Sciences Online is the website for teachers of social sciences in New Zealand.
The Software for Learning website informs and supports teachers to select and integrate software as part of a rich learning environment.
Sounds and Words is designed to support teachers and students to learn about phonological awareness and spelling.
Your one stop site for achieving in NCEA maths, science, and English. Find what you need to know, contact subject teachers, and get encouragement from other students.
This site provides you with a directory of programmes, resources, and information to help your school engage boys in learning.
A collection of resources and activities for students and their whānau.
Techlink is a site dedicated to Technology teachers, students and all those with an interest in technology education in New Zealand.
Te Kotahitanga aims to improve the professionalism, quality, and effectiveness of curriculum delivery for Māori students.
Te reo Māori in English-medium schools
Keep up-to-date with information and resources relevant to the teaching and learning of te reo Māori in English-medium schools.
Te Tere Auraki – Māori student success in English-medium
Te Tere Auraki is a professional development strategy focusing on supporting schools to improve Māori students’ success in English-medium schools.
Te Whāriki – Early Childhood Curriculum
Te Whāriki: He Whāriki Matauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa – Early Childhood Curriculum is the framework for early learning and development of tamariki/children within a socio-cultural context.
Thumbs Up! An Introduction to New Zealand Sign Language
This resource supports the teaching and learning of NZSL as an additional language in English-medium schools for students in years 7–8 working at curriculum levels 1 and 2.
Updated on: 28 Apr 2011