Professional Development
Have you identified your school’s White Spaces?
In 2020 the Government launched The Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP) and the Tertiary Education Strategy (TES), statutory documents issued under the Education and Training Act 2020, to help “create education environments that are learner-centred, and where more of our learners, and especially more of our Māori and Pacific learners, are successful.” This includes being free from racism, better collaboration with whānau and communities, taking account of learners’ needs, identities, languages, and cultures in their practice, and incorporating te reo Māori and tikanga Māori into everyday activities.
The priorities are the result of our three-year Education Conversation | Kōrero Mātauranga, which told us “that wellbeing, equity and inclusion are really important for learners/ākonga and their family and whānau, but that the education system we have now is not delivering on this for everyone.”
Lined up behind these priorities are the National PLD Priorities, the refresh of Ka Hikitia, - Ka Hikitia - Ka Hāpaitia and Te Hurihanganui.
If you are just dipping your toes into being more “culturally responsive” this is going to be nowhere near enough.
How is your anti-racism programme?
How is your critical consciousness?
How is your wider and culturally sustaining, understanding of success and achievement?
These are all fundamental questions you will need to answer to meet these expectations. They are also questions that are answered in my online courses - which you can now fund with MOE PLD hours.
Ann Milne Education is now a full member of the MOE PLD Provider Panel and can help you with PLD in three of the national priority areas:
Cultural Capability
Local Curriculum Design
Assessment for Learning
My PLD is specifically focused on creating critically conscious, culturally sustaining leadership, teaching and learning, curriculum, and pedagogy - which I see as being fundamental to culturally capable practice. The local curriculum design and assessment support that I offer are intentionally linked to these cultural capability goals.