Teaching

Teach and respond to learners in a knowledgeable and adaptive way to progress their learning at an appropriate depth and pace.

Key Indicators:
• Teach in ways that ensure all learners are making sufficient progress, and monitor the extent and pace of learning, focusing on equity and excellence for all.
• Specifically support the educational aspirations for Māori learners, taking shared responsibility for these learners to achieve educational success as Māori.
• Use an increasing repertoire of teaching strategies, approaches, learning activities, technologies and assessment for learning strategies and modify these in response to the needs of individuals and groups of learners.
• Provide opportunities and support for learners to engage with, practise and apply learning to different contexts and make connections with prior learning.
• Teach in ways that enable learners to learn from one another, to collaborate, to self-regulate and to develop agency over their learning.
• Ensure learners receive ongoing feedback and assessment information and support them to use this information to guide further learning. 

Questions I have asked myself:

- Do I understand the effective pedagogy section of the NZ Curriculum?

- What does effective learning setting management look like?

- What are successful motivation strategies?

- How have I incorporated motivation strategies into my planning and execution of lessons?

- How do my teaching styles foster trust, respect and co-operation?

- How do I manage learning setting behaviour?

- How do I learn from others' practices, both positive and negative?

- How does my teaching practice promote an environment where learners feel safe to explore ideas and respond respectfully to others in the group?

- What sources of data could I be using?

- How do I know that my students are progressing?

- Have I used a range of sources of data?

- Do I need someone to help me interpret the data?

- How do I gather and use assessment information in ways that advances the learning of my ākonga?