The Effective Teaching Profile Making a difference for Māori students’ educational achievement

1. The Effective Teaching ProfileMaking a difference for Māori students’ educational achievement Te Kotahitanga Phase 5

2. Genesis of the Effective Teaching Profile • During the interviews-as-chat, Māori students told researchers what it would take to engage them in learning. • They talked about the practices of teachers with whom they engaged. They also talked about the practices of teachers with whom they did not engage. • The Effective Teaching Profile came from the experiences of these Māori students and some of their teachers.

3. The Effective Teaching Profile Culturally appropriate and responsive teachers demonstrate the following understandings: • they positively reject deficit theorising as a means of explaining Māori students’ educational achievement • they know and understand how to bring about change in Māori students’ educational achievement and are professionally committed to doing so in the following ways:

4. The Effective Teaching Profile Manaakitanga They care for Māori students as culturally located individuals Mana motuhake They care for the performance of Māori students Ngā whakapiringatanga They create and maintain a secure, well-managed learning environment

5. The Effective Teaching Profile Wānanga They engage in effective teaching interactions with Māori students as Māori Ako They use a range of strategies that promote effective teaching and learning interactions and relationships with their Māori students Kotahitanga They promote, monitor and reflect on learning outcomes which, in turn, leads to improvements in educational achievement for Māori students

6. The Effective Teaching Profile Culturally responsive and appropriate teachers demonstrate the following understandings: a) They positively reject deficit theorising b) They know and understand how to bring about change in educational achievement and are professionally committed to doing so in the following ways: 1. Caring for Māori students as culturally-located individuals 2. Caring for the participation and achievement of Māori students 3. Creating a secure, well-managed learning environment 4. Engaging in effective teaching interactions 5. Using a range of teaching strategies to promote change 6. Promoting, monitoring and sharing outcomes for, and with, Māori students

7. Culture within The Effective Teaching Profile “Culture is what holds a community together, giving a common framework of meaning. It includes how people communicate with each other, how we make decisions, how we structure our families and who we think are important. It expresses our values towards land and time and our attitudes towards work and play, good and evil, reward and punishment. Culture is preserved in language, symbols and customs and celebrated in art, music, drama, literature, religion and social gatherings. It constitutes the collective heritage, which will be handed down to future generations.” (Quest Rapuara, 1992, p. 7).

8. Culturally Appropriate Effective teaching requires teachers to create culturally appropriate contexts for learning so that students are able to see and/or hear evidence of their own culture within the classroom environment and learning contexts.

9. Culturally Responsive Effective teaching requires teachers to create contexts for learning that are responsive to the cultural experiences of the learner. That is, students are able to, and encouraged to, bring their own prior experiences and knowledge to their classroom activities in order to make more sense of new learning.

10. THINK, PAIR, SHARE Thinking about the previous two slides, work with a partner to consider and discuss possible examples of both culturally appropriate and culturally responsive contexts for learning within your own curriculum areas?

11. Effective Teaching Interactions

12. Traditional to Discursive Classrooms (Bishop, & Glynn, 1999 p. 47)