Initial Teacher Education Publications
Publication Details
This is the home page for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) publications. Initial Teacher Education enables students to learn to become quality teachers. All programme of Initial Teacher Education include opportunities to learn to teach on practicum, with support. The publications on this page include research, position papers and evaluation reports with a focus on features of quality practice in Initial Teacher Education.
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Employment Based Initial Teacher Education Literature Reviews
The Ministry commissioned literature reviews of Employment Based (“field-based”) Initial Teacher Education in English Medium (both nationally and internationally) from NZCER.…
Author(s): Jenny Whatman, Eliza de Waal, and Jo MacDonald, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: December 2019
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Preliminary insights on Employment based initial teacher education in Māori-medium
The Ministry engaged Te Paetawhiti Ltd to complete a literature review of employment based Initial Teacher Education in Māori Medium education settings.…
Author(s): Dr Shane Edwards and Roxanne Smith, Te Paetawhiti Limited.
Date Published: December 2019
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Evaluation of exemplary post-graduate initial teacher education programmes
The Ministry of Education (the Ministry) is managing a series of ‘exemplary’ post-graduate initial teacher education (Master’s) programmes, which are intended to lift the quality of graduating teachers’ practice, and contribute to raising student achievement. Master’s programmes are expected to…
Author(s): Donella Bellett and Matthew Fanselow, Martin, Jenkins and Associates Limited. Prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: June 2018
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Review of evidence: Features of effective Associate Teachers in programmes of initial teacher education (Summary Report)
The authors were commissioned by the Ministry of Education on behalf of the New Zealand Normal School Principals Association to produce a review of the role of the associate teacher in initial teacher education. We were tasked to: Identify and…
Author(s): Mavis Haigh, University of Auckland and Helen Treventhan, University of Otago.
Date Published: November 2017
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Review of evidence: Features of effective Associate Teachers in programmes of initial teacher education
The authors were commissioned by the Ministry of Education on behalf of the New Zealand Normal School Principals Association to produce a review of the role of the associate teacher in initial teacher education. Both of the authors have had…
Author(s): Mavis Haigh, University of Auckland and Helen Treventhan, University of Otago.
Date Published: November 2017
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Exemplary features and early outcomes: Second interim report
This is the second major report of the multi-year evaluation that commenced in May 2014 and that will continue through to 2018 (extended from 2017). The purpose of the report is to evaluate the policy against exemplary features, including reporting…
Author(s): Donella Bellett and Matthew Fanselow, Martin, Jenkins & Associates Limited. Prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: April 2017
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Dispositions to teach: Review and synthesis of current components and applications, and evidence of impact
In April 2014, the writers were commissioned by the Schooling Policy Group, Ministry of Education to review the use of dispositions to teach as entry criteria for Initial Teacher Education (ITE).1 The project purpose was to identify the core components…
Author(s): John O'Neill, Sally Hansen and Evelyn Lewis, Massey University, Manawatū.
Date Published: September 2014
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Initial Teacher Education Outcomes: Standards for graduating teachers
Initial Teacher Education Outcomes focuses on expectations for what initial teacher education graduates need to be able to do on entry into the profession and the resources they need to be able to draw on. The paper outlines the role…
Author(s): Graeme Aitken, Claire Sinnema and Frauke Meyer, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.
Date Published: May 2013
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Learning to practise
Learning to Practise articulates an image of the teaching professional as adaptive expert for whom promoting the engagement, learning and well-being of all learners is at the heart of their professional identity The paper exemplifies five learning principles underpinning the…
Author(s): Helen Timperley, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.
Date Published: May 2013
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Initial Teacher Education: A summary of four studies
Until the 1990s, New Zealand teachers completed their initial teacher education in one of a small number of specialist colleges of education. The deregulation of teacher education, the introduction of a competitive market, and changes in funding policies in the…
Author(s): Janet Rivers, New Zealand Teachers Council.
Date Published: January 2006
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Initial Teacher Education: Policy and practice
The purpose of this study was to generate a systematic description of policy and practice across qualifications of initial teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The study was conducted in two phases.…
Author(s): Ruth G Kane, College of Education, Massey University.
Date Published: January 2005
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Research on Initial Teacher Education in New Zealand 1993-2004 Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography
The primary purpose of this project is to analyse New Zealand research about initial teacher education, and present findings in the form of an annotated bibliography and a literature review of initial teacher education in New Zealand from 1993 to…
Author(s): Marie Cameron and Robyn Baker, New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education.
Date Published: January 2004
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