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What’s Important In Early Years Education? Some messages from research

In Europe and the UK there is lively debate about when children should start school and what kinds of curriculum and pedagogical approaches are most effective in the early years. Caroline Sharp of...

| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

From early childhood to the first year of school: Connecting practices for mathematics learning and teaching

This article reports from a Teacher-led Innovation Fund project that investigated connecting practices and resources for mathematical learning between a kindergarten and the first year of school....

| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Factors impacting on children's adjustment to the first year of primary school

Starting school need not be traumatic, especially if schools and early childhood centres are aware of the factors most likely to cause problems for children adjusting to the new situation. Reprinted...

| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

SCHOOL ENTRY ASSESSMENT TASKS: Why do teachers use them – or not?

In 1997 the Ministry of Education launched the School Entry Assessment (SEA) kit, a non-mandatory set of standardised assessment tasks for new entrants. Teachers at 75 Auckland primary schools were...

| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Globally delayed development: Developing students’ motor skills

There seems to be an increase in children entering school with globally delayed development, including poor gross and fine motor skills. What ways are there to increase these students’ skills so they...

| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

This is school…where people come to learn for school: What children need to know when they start school

Beginning formal schooling is a time of change and challenge for children, families, and educators. This article focuses on one approach by the Starting School Research Project to engage first-year...