exploring ako overview

WORKSHOP

Exploring Ako | Introductory overview | 25 July 2024

Event Details

Date:
25 July 2024

Time:
12.00pm – 2.00pm

Exploring Ako series:
This workshop is a part of a series investigating six principles for enhancing learner outcomes in tertiary education.

Price

$100 + GST (includes booking fees) Register

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is an introductory overview to a series suitable for all kaiako across the tertiary sector. Participants may be new to teaching, or looking for an opportunity to refresh their strategies for successful teaching and learning outcomes.

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

  • Describe the six principles and their inter-relationship
  • Discuss practices in relation to at least one principle they could implement in their own context
  • Consider participating in a Community of Practice to support further implementation of the six principles, and reflection on their impact on successful outcomes for ākonga

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

Exploring Ako workshop series

This online workshop series investigates six key principles for enhancing learner outcomes in tertiary education.

Participants are welcome to attend any combination of overview and elective workshops. Attending the overview workshop first will assist in choosing from the following electives, but is not required.

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About the facilitator

Facilitator Jane TerrellJane Terrell is an independent educational facilitator with experience across the tertiary sector and most recently in work-based learning.

She is dedicated to ensuring educational success for under-prepared ākonga groups, with a particular focus on interactive, dialogue approaches. These are underpinned by her commitment to “ako”, teaching and learning as a reciprocal process, and by her awareness of education as anthropology.

Jane has worked in a wide range of tertiary education and industry contexts. These include wānanga, university, Te Pukenga, PTEs, workplaces in NZ and Austria, and the tourism industry in Vietnam.

Digital badges

Kaiako will receive a digital badge for participation and will be strongly encouraged to participate in an ongoing Community of Practice to support implementation of the six principles, and reflect on their impact on successful outcomes for ākonga. 

Kaiako can receive a second digital badge, after at least three months, for providing evidence of the implementation of new principles and professional sharing of practices, and the impact of these on outcomes for ākonga.

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HOSTED BY

Ako Aotearoa and facilitator Jane Terrell

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