Building Educational Goals and Objectives for Kāhui Ako

Building Educational Goals and Objectives for Kāhui Ako

What do you already know about strengthening cultural capability?

Strengthening Cultural Capability

• Strengthen cultural capability through iwi partnerships and cultural immersion
• Refresh the curriculum with a focus on literacy and mathematics
• Build teaching and learning capacity through foundation strategies, play-based and structured learning, and transition points
• Enhance wellbeing through trauma healing practices and student behavior response

Curriculum Refresh

• Implement Kura Taiao, a Māori approach to environment-based curriculum
• Unpack learning progressions to support student growth
• Refresh curriculums in literacy and mathematics to meet the needs of diverse learners

Teaching and Learning

• Build capability and understanding of Foundation Strategies for Yr 7-10 Kaiako
• Strengthen teacher capability in play-based learning and structured literacy
• Strengthen transitioning points from primary to secondary and ECE to primary
• Further develop a gifted education programme to meet the needs of advanced learners

Wellbeing

• Apply trauma healing practices to support students affected by trauma
• Share best practices to enhance student wellbeing
• Respond to student behavior & learning to create a positive and inclusive learning environment

Definition List

• Kāhui Ako: a community of learning in New Zealand education system
• Iwi: a large social unit in Māori society
• Tamariki: children in Māori
• Kaupapa: Māori term for principles and ideas
• Kura Taiao: a Māori approach to environment-based curriculum
• Hikairo Schema: a framework for teachers to develop cultural competencies
• Play-based learning: a context for learning through which children organise and make sense of their social worlds
• Structured Literacy: a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction
• ECE: Early Childhood Education
• Trauma Healing Practice: a therapeutic approach to address trauma
• ASL & Tuamaki: roles within Kāhui Ako, Across School Leaders and Principals respectively

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.