The path ahead
We have come so far along our shared vision statements that we created last year in Kōrepo which are:
But I wonder now whether there is any great difference between the two. We have scheduled MAI times and Kaupapa Ako times, but really, shouldn't both times be igniting and persuing individual and collective interests and passions? And shouldn't both times be exploring and discovering authentic concepts as well?
I wrote a summary of my own individual vision for education here: A Utopian "What if?" and I believe that we are actually not far off this now as a whole group. I think the team want to push forward, and are keen to, but the question is what are the next steps to do so?
Is it to start looking at MAI time and Kaupapa Ako time as the same thing? Is it to look at it as "Inquiry time?"
Or is it something else?
I know that we need to start loosening the reins somewhat, we need to get students being more accountable for their own learning, and planning their own days - which we are not doing enough of at the moment. Perhaps the timetable is the place to start. Perhaps uniting both times into an Inquiry time, where students are required to put in parts of both into their day could be the answer. This would be hard to timetable... or would it? Perhaps it would be easier... If teachers offered one MAI time and one Kaupapa workshop option each day? And students chose which they went to? They could go to some, or more if they wanted?
Ideas.
The Māori idea of Inquiry is Pakirehua, which basically means to chip away at a story in order to bear fruit. Love it. This is what learning should be.
Kaupapa Ako is a time where ākonga discover and explore authentic concepts which provoke deep thinking and learning through Haeatatanga.and
Is a time to purposefully ignite and pursue individual and collective interests and passions.
But I wonder now whether there is any great difference between the two. We have scheduled MAI times and Kaupapa Ako times, but really, shouldn't both times be igniting and persuing individual and collective interests and passions? And shouldn't both times be exploring and discovering authentic concepts as well?
I wrote a summary of my own individual vision for education here: A Utopian "What if?" and I believe that we are actually not far off this now as a whole group. I think the team want to push forward, and are keen to, but the question is what are the next steps to do so?
Is it to start looking at MAI time and Kaupapa Ako time as the same thing? Is it to look at it as "Inquiry time?"
Or is it something else?
I know that we need to start loosening the reins somewhat, we need to get students being more accountable for their own learning, and planning their own days - which we are not doing enough of at the moment. Perhaps the timetable is the place to start. Perhaps uniting both times into an Inquiry time, where students are required to put in parts of both into their day could be the answer. This would be hard to timetable... or would it? Perhaps it would be easier... If teachers offered one MAI time and one Kaupapa workshop option each day? And students chose which they went to? They could go to some, or more if they wanted?
Ideas.
The Māori idea of Inquiry is Pakirehua, which basically means to chip away at a story in order to bear fruit. Love it. This is what learning should be.
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