exploring ako knowing your akonga

ONLINE WORKSHOP

Exploring Ako | Knowing your ākonga | 26 June 2025

Event Details

Date:
26 June 2025

Time:
12.00pm – 1.00pm

Exploring Ako set:
These workshops investigate six principles for enhancing learner outcomes in tertiary education.

Price

$50 + GST (includes booking fees) Register

This workshop focuses on Principle 1, Knowing your ākonga and the demands of the learning. As the foundation for effective teaching and for all six principles, this principle ensures learning remains accessible, relevant, targeted, and more likely to result in successful outcomes.

By the end of the workshop, kaiako will be able to:

  • consider the diverse backgrounds of ākonga
  • select tools, strategies and activities for identifying ākonga learning strengths and challenges
  • reflect on learning demands of their teaching context in relation to ākonga diversity

This workshop set is designed to support the aims of the Ako Aotearoa project Ako Explored – Six principles for enhancing learner outcomes in tertiary education

Exploring Ako workshops

These online workshops investigate six key principles for enhancing learner outcomes in tertiary education.

Participants are welcome to attend any combination of workshops. Attending the overview workshop first will assist in choosing from the focussed sessions that offer a deeper dive into each principle, but is not required.

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About the facilitator

Facilitator Jane Terrell

Jane is an independent educational facilitator with experience in a wide range of tertiary education and industry contexts.

She is dedicated to ensuring educational success for under-prepared ākonga groups underpinned by her commitment to “ako”, teaching and learning as a reciprocal process.

 

 

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HOSTED BY

Ako Aotearoa and facilitator Jane Terrell

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