Understanding pedagogy determines how modern education delivery can help teachers. Teachers enter education to make a difference in the lives of their students, encourage curiosity, and spark inspiration that creates lifelong learners with a thirst for knowledge. The rapidly evolving nature of technology offers challenges to experienced teachers who find themselves having to adopt new…
When I was eighteen I was working at the supermarket in my hometown and my Year 12 English teacher approached me at the lotto desk, and while she bought her ticket, she said to me “I thought you’d be somewhere better by now”. It was a loaded question, and a surprising one. She’d always liked…
Talofa my name is Lindalaurosa Lagi Sime, I am a New Zealand-born Samoan, I am a teacher, a wife to an amazing Tongan man and a mother to our beautiful daughter. I am the eldest daughter of my beautiful Samoan immigrant parents, who set up home in New Zealand to provide a better future for…
Today’s world demands so much more from teachers. They must become aware of pedagogical theory, adapt their teaching and learning programmes to provide individualised differentiation, and help students to develop their social, emotional, and intellectual growth. This guidance is delicate, it is a new form of both relationship and instruction, and it bears the hallmarks…
The move towards Mana Ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori. Recognising the need to move towards Mana Ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori is a long awaited step in the right direction for education in Aotearoa. It’s exciting, and for many people – myself included – it is scary. Why? Because for many teachers, their experience of…
The art of providing effective feedback As teachers, one of the greatest challenges we face is providing effective feedback that not only improves student outcomes but maintains their enthusiasm and desire to learn. This is often compounded by a lack of time, the requirement to provide tangible assessment grades, and the diversity of student needs….
Talk of burnout has undeniably entered school staff rooms around Aotearoa. While it has been a hot topic in the corporate world for a while now, and almost a rite of passage for lawyers and doctors, teachers have long accepted their heavy mental workload as part of the job. That’s changing though, and the start…
The power of culture in a classroom of Pasifika learners. Investigating the topic of cultural inclusiveness brings about some challenges and some controversial ideas. However, it is a subject that speaks volumes about how we can support, encourage and learn from cultural knowledge and apply this to support our Pasifika learners. I think about the…
AI is here to stay, so how we can make ensure students use this technology in a meaningful way? Students in 2022, the year of our overlords Zukerburg, Bazos and Gates and whoever owns Tik Tok, are interested in proficiencies that align with their intrinsic motivations to succeed in a world where the personal brand…
An exploration into how we learn to read. To everyone but primary school teachers, learning to read is a very mysterious process. From the outside it also appears to be an extremely frustrating one for some brains and, given our consistently poor results in international literacy tests, an apparently ineffective one for far too many…
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