I went back and had a look at last years and diversity jumped out at me.
Firstly as a proud moment of me of our hapori team and the changes we are making for our next kaupapa ako cycle.
The first sentence states 'Designing for difference is impacting the way we organise and govern our societies and prepare for the future.
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| In reflection our previous kaupapa(s) we were expecting everyone to be able to run the Haeata inquiry process in their space and with the number of akonga that who on paper/physically their kaupapa. We were limiting ourselves/stressing ourselves by making one-size fits for all when in actual fact our akonga were all at different stages of self-managing. Leading into the parent conferences thinking through the challenging questions we may receive, I reflected on the impact in particular the environment had on the social learning our akonga have to go through to be able to work in this space. And how we as closing school could not have really prepared them for this space. I am a huge advocate of these spaces and excited at where we will take it but reflective of the impact these space have on our learning; for example Ruby. She came to Haeata excited about change, enthusiastic about what she had heard, strong in ability but new to the community. Initially it was a culture shock- swearing, kids behaviour etc but as term 2 has progressed the 'girl' drama has for Ruby overshadowed at times her learning. RKF with her own device had chosen one kaupapa but because of the drama did not want to attend and instead attended another kaupapa at time- work wise did she work on her 'survivor' inquiry or did she work on a 'human rights' inquiry. In her words 'survivor was her favourite kaupapa so far' but was this because of camp or the actual inquiry??? Socially RKF is struggling at times and prefers to hang with kaiako at times. When we look at her link-ed are we seeing the best of her her learning or is it influenced/distracted by others. Having just completed a kaupapa ako with a group that grew immensely throughout due to social connections I felt compromised initially that I wasn't teaching and that very little inquiry (in my gut0 was happening. I went from student led to teacher led (first/then) just to manage this group. Dividing our 50-60 into 3 groups- the independent/digital artists to Clark; the reserachers/writers to Alicia/Sarah and the digital Maui /Matariki stars to me. My reflection prompt for this:  So...... so excited after talking with Karyn re PD session last Monday and what we discussed as a hapori as a consequence of this for term 3- dividing the independent and the dependent for kaupapa ako. |
