THE KIWI TEACHER

We need to shift away from the traditional epistemology of knowledge to a new way of doing and being.

In the search for best practice, we need to reconsider our assumptions, re-evaluate our opinions and rethink our answers.

Imagine if learners were given the freedom to explore, interact with and even modify their learning.

We need to liberate our pedagogy. When we do, we will see more creative, reinvigorated, and equitable practice.

A classroom where we give students space to express through both the silence and the sound is the one that will learn.

What we need are critical consumers and impassioned creators.

We espouse that we don’t want students learning in a framework defined by individualism and competition, so let’s stop teaching in one.

We need to find a way to reclaim TeacherSpeak and reframe jargon through both critique and the discovery of meaning.

If “the limits of our language mean the limits of our world”, then we must reshape our language in order to reshape our world.

The educator’s role, like the political leaders, is to somehow unite disparate identities under a common vision.

“Our need to focus on global issues has coincided with the opportunity for young people’s voices to be heard.” – Shay Wright, Ulearn19.

All of the strategies in the world are useless if you do not truly know the young people whose learning you have been entrusted with.