The Quality Teaching Research and Development Project (QTR&D) was funded by the Ministry of Education. The exploratory project was developed collaboratively between the ministry, university academics, research facilitators, schools, teachers, students and their communities.
The project referred to in this summary, aimed to improve the quality of classroom practices used by teachers in English medium schools so that students from all cultural groups could experience successful learning outcomes. A considerable amount of New Zealand research evidence shows that the education system does not enable Māori and Pasifika students to fulfil their potential as learners.
In the English medium project teachers worked collaboratively in seven hubs to investigate classroom practice across literacy, numeracy, social studies and science and documented the changes in Māori and Pasifika student learning outcomes. With the reports from the other settings and the overarching evaluation the findings of this project will inform policy, and future research and development work with teachers in schools.