Relationship based learning

Kaikohe West School have regular Professional Learning meetings where staff have a chance to reflect on their pedagogy and share their thoughts with others. This week we watched a video about Community Responsiveness. 

Here are some reflections I shared at our staff meeting:
To be agentic teachers we need to understand ourselves and create a learning context which allows students to bring their knowledge to the classroom. For relationship centred education we need to be responsive to the students and let them know we care about their learning.
Agentic teachers reject deficit theorising and have high expectations of all students. They are able to use a range of teaching strategies effectively and manage the classroom so pedagogy includes co-construction of learning. They use evidence and formative assessment  to guide next steps. They can modify the curriculum so it is responsive to the community.