This topic arose through personal reflections over the last 2 weeks; feeling at times I was struggling with the challenges of a large kaupapa group in an open space with little opportunity to be collaborative due to myself and fellow kaiako release.
My role became manager in an attempt to make accountability and reflection an asset of the kaupapa.
This word 'enable' who I was a big user of featured in my thoughts instead as a 'negative' instead;
- DH was unwilling to do any work because ET was not here to get his paint and picture.
This is a student I have worked with for now two years. Last year he was dependent on a
teacher and would only attempt work when he had teacher support. DH receives no funding
yet has this 'luxury'. Now DH is dependent on support- we enabled this..... why are we not
empowering him to work independently.
- Our kaupapa ako group being so big- we hand out laptops to inspire/ assist with their artworks-
yet get frustrated when they are playing games or on facebook.
My frustrations of feeling compromised over my lack of opportunity or battle to teach while feeling stretched to get around the group and ensure working was happening.
As a result I split our groups into 3, a group for kaiako-C, reliever and then myself to drive, motivate, check in with and eventually assess. The past 2 days I have felt less compromised and concentrated on leading learning of a group with reciprocal positivity from the group.
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