Cultural Responsive Learning

Supporting Staff Cultural Responsive Capability and Confidence

At the beginning of the year, we had a full staff meeting.  One part that I took was looking at our cultural responsiveness.  Within this, we looked at ways that staff can develop in capability and confidence.  Each staff member wrote a goal for the first half of the year.  

A common goal was to learn the new karakia that we are adding to our repertoire this year, Whakataka te Hau.  In response to this, I created a slide to share with staff that breaks down the karakia line by line.  I included a spoken version and a waiata version so we can also learn how to sing it so we are able to use this in different situations we may be in.



My next step is to learn this myself, create opportunities for us staff to sing and use it to support learning for students.  I also need to look at individual teacher goals to see who wants to learn their mini and create ways to learn these.

• Practise and develop the use of te reo and tikanga Māori. 
• Actively contribute, and work collegially, in the pursuit of improving my own and organisational practice, showing leadership, particularly in areas of responsibility.