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The checklist if really amazing and looks great as well.
The future of vocational tech education envisions a system where learning for qualifications could be broken down into smaller micro-credential "chunks". Each chunk could be learned in a multitude of ways (eg institution-based, distant taught, workplace-based, or Assessment of Prior Learning-based, etc). Obtain all of the chunks and show a coherent pathway of learning and you earn the qualification.
ITP Newsletter November  Edition

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External Moderation from CITRENZ came through and it was well received and was appreciative of the assessments in the module.
The emphasis on the Micro-credential structure has been noted and is validation of my stand.

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A reflection of my teaching philosophy in some ways -
1. A strong base
2. Attention to detail.
3. Fun

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Creation of a Common Resource for Tutors to Handle Diversity for Students
We are working on a checklist for tutors to handle diversity at Wintec. We explored ideas and also also saw a few options we could use to make the checklist comprehensive.

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The A.S.K.E.D Model
The ASKED model is an interesting way to appreciate diversity.
We start with
A - Awareness
S - Skills to acquire evidence
K - Knowledge of the diverse nature of our students and what makes them diverse
E - Encounter with our diversity
D - The desire

I felt that this should have been AKSED and not ASKED cos, we have
Awareness, which leads to the Knowledge of the diversity, that then leads to us acquiring Skills to identify the traits of diversity. This is then followed by the encounters and the final desire to be harmonious.

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I attended the Adult learners award at Wintec and it was a Celebration of the achievement of adult Maori and Pacifika learners besides international students.
It was a very interesting event and I really liked the way the students were living life and studying.

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Grame receiving his award

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Class 1 : The Introduction to the Concept of Diversity 

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Class 1 : The Introduction to the Concept of Diversity 

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2 Aug 2019
The initial session was on the identifying the aim and the purpose of the module was
Aims to support candidates to facilitate quality learning through creating and sustaining a learner-centred teaching environment that respects learners’ mana and diverse backgrounds, and wider educational and societal contexts.
Key Take Aways and Exercise :
Need is to identify the diversity and then be aware of how to address student needs.

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Follow Awareness, Educating and understanding Cycle.  

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Follow Awareness, Educating and understanding Cycle.  

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2 Aug 2019
We saw a cyclic methodology that needs to be followed in this module where we would be going through Mahiotanga, Matauranga and Maramatanga.

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14 August 2019
Wananga 1
This was an interesting Wananga where we tried to identify, in groups, what does it mean to be diverse and the factors of diversity. Some interesting images of the exercise that reflect the issues are attached.
Religion

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The REAL Highpoint of Using the Learning in a Diversity Class

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The REAL Highpoint of Using the Learning in a Diversity Class

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As part of the learning and handling mature students I specially took a use case of Grame Cook, a nature student who is 55 years old, has a broken past, a broken family and is trying to reskill himself.
I have taught him two modules and his dedication to his work and his study is indeed worth emulating.
I decided to know him a bit more and then recommend him for an Adult Educator award. I felt nice when his parents, both over 80 came and we had a 20 minutes discussion on Grame. It was a surreal moment. The 80 years old parents were discussing their ward who was 55 years old and it was VERY similar to the discussions we have for our 18 years old.
The best Pick of the Year for me was the one here. To me this is the great example of handling age diversity.

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Concept of Family in every sense. The support it provides people was discussed.

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Interesting take by people on the concept of Customs and Traditions.
Stark contract from what I feel about it.

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This formed an interesting discussion during the session and we had a detailed debate about the issue of what is a culture and how we can make it work.
7 Bullet Points

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Ways We can Classify Tutors based on they Refer to Diversity 

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Ways We can Classify Tutors based on they Refer to Diversity 

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A very interesting classification of tutors and how  they look at diversity and handling diversity.
The one that I liked was the Group/Individual classification.
This appealed to me as I think I fall in this bucket.
I also liked the exercise of addressing the characteristics of specific groups and asking a team to assign the best fit.

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Summary of what I Related to each Diversity Factor 

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Summary of what I Related to each Diversity Factor 

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I created the symbols for each diversity factor and it kind of related to the overall theme. The image is atteched.

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Guest Lecturers : HIGHPOINT OF THE WANANGA

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Guest Lecturers : HIGHPOINT OF THE WANANGA

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Alroy Walker
He described his journey as a Maori and how is found himself and his roots. Alroy is a very interesting speaker and I liked a few things he spoke about and related to. The first was the incident where he spoke about his son and how he convinced his son to emulate a Maori warrior and it ended up shaming his son. This touched a nerve. It was a classical case where he missed the context and the environment. Very brave to share this with the cohort.
I loved the exercise he added to the activity mix of remembering Names. The video attached illustrates this well.

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An excellent Activity for a call to remember names with cues.

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Guest Lecturers : HIGHPOINT OF THE WANANGA

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Guest Lecturers : HIGHPOINT OF THE WANANGA

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Maori Group Students
An amazing set of students came and addressed us tutors on their student journey. It also exposed a few of us to the ways that students are feeling about teaching in general and tutors in specifics.

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Guest Lecturers : HIGHPOINT OF THE WANANGA

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Guest Lecturers : HIGHPOINT OF THE WANANGA

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Additional Needs Lecturers
Internationals
I liked these addresses as they brought a new perspective to the Wananga and brought some critical issues to fore regarding our understanding of international students and those in need. The one on support was especially insightful as we saw different types of issues that students face and how we can handle these from a tutor's perspective.
I also found that the Support staff was speaking from a position of weakness and its my personal opinion that his address was more a plea rather than a way ahead.