Examining Cultural Context
Becoming a culturally responsive teacher means having the ability to learn from and relate respectfully with people from all cultures. As teachers, we need to take into account the cultural knowledge, experiences and filters which students bring to their individual learning. We need to challenge the “deficit thinking” of student educability and become agentic teachers whose pedagogy is culturally responsive. I concur with Bishop's concepts (Edtalks, 2012) around agentic teachers being the key to making a difference for Māori students. Agentic teachers share the power with students to control their own goals, actions and destiny, where students are producers as well as products of learning. Teachers with agency create the difference in Maori student achievement in secondary schools. Teachers who understand and are able to weave together all the things that create a learning context where students are able to bring themselves to the learning conversations, as Māo...
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