Workshop Prep

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 With our Manaiakalani Cluster Teacher only Day coming up soon, a lot of our teachers are preparing to share and run workshops. 

I was very fortunate at the most recent CoL PLG to 'speed date' with Dorothy Apelu (Tamaki College) and Christine Tupou (fellow colleague here at GTS). Our talanoa left us with wanting more. We walked away from that PLG eager to reconnect and run a workshop at the up coming Manaiakalani Teacher Only Day. 

Each talanoa session that we've had to date have been overwhelmingly reassuring but also filled with frustration at what our tamaiti, our tamariki are having to deal with in our classrooms. 

Our workshop session, we are planning to include STUDENT VOICE, and this I'm excited about. Our tamaiti have such powerful voices yet in different settings do not see themselves and their peers as valueable and knowledgeable beings. It is proven that student voice is important, is powerful and should be evident in our classroom and teaching practice, however, it is not. We have also spent time to unpack and create a Pasifika framework that encompasses teaching and learning. 

I'm am so excited! We've still got a bit to go and still piece things together that I'm so excited! 




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