Associate Professor Mere Berryman is the Project Director of Te Kotahitanga, a project aimed at making schools and their staff culturally responsive. Te Kotahitanga has been implemented in schools with a high Maori population with the aim of improving learning outcomes for these students. The project works on holistic educational reform in the schools who apply through professional development of school leaders and all teaching staff. The whole school must be committed to the project.
Culturally responsive teaching requires teachers to deliver content from a perspective that students are able to find more accessible. I like to think that many teachers I know in Australia are doing this already, but I can see the value in ensuring that the movement is holistic, across the curriculum and school-wide.
The videos are hugely informative and demonstrate Culturally Responsive Teaching
http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/Videos
To be continued...
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