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Removing Barriers for Māori, Pasifika, Diverse Learners and those needing support
Removing Barriers for Māori, Pasifika, Diverse Learners and those needing support
The Manaiakalani Learn, Create, Share pedagogy, that originated from this school and has now spread to 120 schools, was specifically designed to remove barriers to learning for Māori, Pasifika and Diverse Learners.
We continue to involve whānau/aiga in the ongoing development of this work along with development collaboration from the Network of Schools we share knowledge and practice with.
It is this pedagogy and these partnerships with community and whānau that have enabled us to achieve academic results vastly different from the rest of Aotearoa. The Writing Chart below shows a trajectory of acceleration that runs counter to that experienced by Māori and Pasifika in the rest of the country
Because this pedagogy is delivered and received on a digital platform the Manaiakalani Group have become notable for making the learner devices affordable through micro loans and for the supporting the cost of ownership through the life of the device. This work has been ground breaking in Aotearoa. The work has successfully included support for the access of diverse learners, with accessibility always being part of the pedagogical development.
Manaiakalani has also been instrumental in anchoring the EDOS Programme in NZ, which provides free or affordable household connections to whānau who could not otherwise afford this.
Pt England School, along with the Manaiakalani Network Schools was able to be effectively connected for learning right through COVID and the Auckland floods and not have learners go backwards as a result of the pandemic or civil defense emergencies.
Tauira who are connected, empowered, and where learning is visible and ubiquitous are able to engage and involve their whānau in their learning and share and receive comments with and from a wider audience, giving greater meaning and purpose to their learning.
As we have worked to identify barriers to learning we have become clear that the biggest single barrier is teacher capability.
To that end we have developed:
To raise capability fo our teachers and leaders
In order to keep our Tauira and their Whānau safe whilst they are doing this mahi we have developed the:
Learners have sound foundation skills in Reading, Writing and Maths
Learners have sound foundation skills in Reading, Writing and Maths
For a more detailed view and discussion of our tuaira performance in core subjects, key competencies and other areas, please visit the Assessment Pages of this Report.
Much of the focus of our work in this year, as in every year, is to acclerate the learning in the three core subjects.
The following 3 graphics emphasise why this work is necessary and important
We have had staff in engaged in the PLD mentioned above and are pleased with the results we have achieved in the core subjects though we did not achieve ubiquitous acceleration in all three. As noted above, we achieved this in Writing.
In Maths we kept pace, which is still something to be proud of when you consider we were coming out of the years of COVID
In Reading we were pretty much the same. Keeping pace, but not accelerating beyond +1 Term. We all agree, this is not good enough, though coming out of the context we had been in, we still feel pleased that we "held".
For full reporting on the performance of and provision for diverse learning needs, please see the Programme Reports sub pages of this report. As noted in earlier pages of this report, we have worked extensively with whānau and iwi to ensure our delivery is culturally responsive as well as being responsive to diverse learning needs.
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