This year the focus of my teaching as inquiry has been on engagement. Engagement not only of learners in their learning but also their whanau and engaging learners in a holistic manner.
For the purpose of this inquiry I have been exploring a lot of different research on engagement, reading documents like the NZ Curriculum, Ka Hikitia and Tataiako and Tapasa to understand what is outlined in these very significant documents for how our learners learn best. What are the effective strategies that underpin culturally responsive practice.
The guiding principles of all of the above mentioned documents highlight very similar points. All of them emphasize on one big aspect and that is the relationship between the teacher and the learner. All these documents have it written in them the voices of the learners and they are all saying one common thing and that's - my teacher knows me and my family, my teacher cares for me and that I know my teacher as a person.
So, keeping all these aspects of these documents in mind I focussed on an intervention that was gathering learner voice on what they want in the day in their learning, what they like, what interests them, what makes them go and feel happy in their learning. I also involved my learners in the planning process through our learn, create, share pedagogy.
So far the results have been uplifting and I look forward to sharing the evidence and the impact of the intervention on learner engagement with my colleagues at our last CoL session of 'Bursts and Bubbles' in mid November.
Here is a video of me talking in detail about my intervention.
Link to the video.
Kia Ora.
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