Cultural Diversity

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Te Kotahitanga Video - year 13s, after 5 years of Te Kotahitanga  http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/Videos/Interviews/Student-voices

LANGUAGE

The following vids were especially for EAL (English Additional Language) learners, who seem to be in almost every classroom in NZ (i.e. English is not their first language) - however these principles work well for everyone! These are not available on the web, so I have embedded them here.

  

This is a secondary geography class - first they do a 'language survey' to assess language ability. This is called
anticipatory guide. (see for more on this þhttp://esolonline.tki.org.nz/ESOL-Online/Teacher-needs/Pedagogy/ESOL-teaching-strategies/Reading/Anticipatory-reading-guides)

Cultural diversity (click on description...):

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• These two are Anjali's story part 1 & 2 - Indian teacher going from failure to success with Maori students - very inspiring...
• For more like Anjali's story see the webpage >http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/Videos/Teacher-stories/Jane-s-story and choose from all the different stories implementing the Te Kotahitanga program.
• >Pasifika kids - their lives at church, school, home and cultural community - clashes and overlaps