Part four – Wāhanga tuawhā. Workshops, ngā awheawhe.

Nau mai haere mai, welcome to part four of the workshops. Part four, this is an opportunity for you to delve deeper into the update of Te Whāriki 2017. These exercises are designed to support your exploration of the revised learning outcomes. You are encouraged to reflect and think critically as you examine your practice and curriculum implementation. For these workshops you will need the Learning Outcome cards. These can be downloaded from Te Whāriki TKI.

The workshops can be done by yourself or as a team. Record your responses, take photos of your whāriki, and discuss with others.

In this exercise, using the set of outcomes cards, show the learning that is valued in your service’s curriculum. Show the learning that is foregrounded (learning priorities) and back-grounded at this time.

Why is the curriculum designed in this way?

You can pause the recording here to take some time to undertake this exercise.

Now focus on a child. Use the Learning Outcome cards again to show the learning that is valued/foregrounded and ask:

• Why are these learning priorities foregrounded?
• How are these learning priorities foregrounded?
• What might be the next steps for this child?

What insights have you gained from this activity?

The final exercise is in two parts. Firstly, identify an area where your curriculum is especially strong. As well as the questions on the slide, you could think about how it became a strength for your curriculum, and how this is sustained over time.

And now, idenitfy an area you would like to strengthen. A key question to consider here is – why have you chosen this area?

From this exercise you could take away one goal or action that you are going to work on as a team.

Tuhia āu whakautu. Take the time to record your insights from this series of examples.