Rebecca Smye-Rumsby
Design . Technology . Project Teacher
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Learning-focused culture
Develop a culture that is focused on learning, and is characterised by respect, inclusion, empathy, collaboration and safety.
My
Learning
Journey
Practice
Supporting hublings to reflect on their learning, set goals and confront obstacles that inhibit development . Adhering to school wide expectations . Facilitating and participating in restorative conversations . Setting clear and consistent guidelines around the use of equipment and resources . Frequent check-ins with hub around hauora . Planning with a degree of choice to cater for a range of interests. Providing workshops based on student voice . Following school protocol around health and safety .
Examples
This is Ezekiel's concept for a sheltered walkway for Kaipatiki.
He has used cultures he connects with for inspiration. He has studied patterns and symbols from Maori, Tongan, Samoan and Tuvaluan craft. The form is taken from the Pikorua which represents the bond between two people.
'Create an environment where learners can be confident in their identities, languages, cultures and abilities.'
Tuakana Teina is a Maori term referring to a big brother or sister teaching and guiding a little brother or sister. This not only provides a learning opportunity to the younger child but, through teaching, it enhances the knowledge and understanding of the older child.
After project showtime, our students reflect on what they have learnt, then design, create and deliver workshops to a number of primary schools from our Kahui Ako. Their project guide supports them in this process.
My group and I are responsible for collating information about what each project group is offering. We design a website to share these options with the primary school.
I organise the primary students into their favourite workshops, so they get the best possible experience during their visit to our school. Each project group has leaders which guide the students and welcome them to their project.
'Teach in ways that enable learners to learn from one another, to collaborate, to self-regulate and to develop agency over their learning.'
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'Develop learning-focused relationships with learners, enabling them to be active participants in the process of learning, sharing ownership and responsibility for learning.'
'Foster trust, respect and cooperation with and among learners so that they experience an environment in which it is safe to take risks'.
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Hub is a space where students explore personal aspects of learning. This includes wellbeing, mindset, goal-setting and social development.
For many of my 'hublings', I have been their only hub coach and with our dedicated time to hub each week; we have developed strong whanau-like connections over time. I feel that this bond supports students to develop a sense of belonging and a space to be themselves.
'Manage the learning setting to ensure access to learning for all and to maximise learners’ physical, social, cultural and emotional safety.'
'What makes up such a foundational theory of relationships? Research has shown that developing schools and classrooms as if they were (extended) families provides educators with settings where Māori students’ belonging, participation and individual learning is supported and developed.
This sense of family-ness, for example, promotes a relationship-based education that has much to offer teachers and school leaders currently trying to support those marginalised from the benefits of education.
However, family-like relationships are not enough in themselves to promote improved learning.
Classrooms also need to be places of interaction and dialogue where students of different cultures can bring who they are, what they know and above all, how they understand and make sense of the world to the conversations that generate learning.'