Activity 4 : Indigenous knowledge and cultural responsiveness in my practice
I subscribe to the understanding that cultural responsiveness is using learners experiences, perspectives and characteristics as part of your teaching and learning (Gay, 2001). Additionally, using the Effective Teacher Profile ( Bishop & Berryman, 2009 ) supports the how of being culturally responsive in the classroom. I thinks that the challenge is, in order to truly be culturally responsive, it requires you to truly know yourself, your bias and your assumptions and ultimately have the emotional intelligence to know how this affects you in your setting and in your decision making. I have decided to use the Mauri Model (Potahu, 2011) to reflect on how proactive our practice is in regards to the levels of Mauri as I feel that I want to reflect on the engagement of stakeholders.. When reflecting on the teaching and learning opportunities that we provide at my school, I believe that we ensure that teachers care about the performance of the...