Enhancing Educators' Impact on Pasifika Learners: From Good to Great
This study aims to empower educators with the tools and knowledge to better support Pasifika learners in tertiary education. By identifying effective teaching practices and understanding learners' preferences, the project seeks to create a toolkit for educators and promote professional development. The Discovery Phase involves sharing stories, analyzing factors that contribute to successful learning, and reviewing past research to inform future practices. Ultimately, the goal is to create a supportive environment that fosters the success of Pasifika students.
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From Good to Great: The 10 Habits of Phenomenal Educators for Pasifika Learners Cherie Chu Janice Ikiua-Pasi Ivy Abella Arden Perrot Pale Sauni
Our aim is to turn theory into practice to ensure that educators become more confident with owning their own skills and cultural toolkit for the tertiary field. This will enable the question of What can I do to help my Pasifika student? to be answered through a deeper understanding of what the Pasifika learner needs for their educational journeys. This study positions the Pasifika learner at the centre of the study.
Purpose of study To identify phenomenal educators and teaching practices that are of immense benefit to Pasifika students in tertiary education and to inform institutional and sectoral improvements. We will develop a toolkit which encompasses the learnings we produce entitled From Good to Great: The 10 Habits of Phenomenal Educators for Pasifika Learners. Our aim is to turn theory into practice, but also to take it to the next level with a wrap around professional development programme.
Objectives To identify, analyse and describe phenomenal educators who have effective teaching and learning practices in place for Pasifika learners. To identify and describe the preferred learning styles of Pasifika learners.
Discovery Phase The primary task is to promote learning by sharing stories about the best times and analysing the factors that made them possible. Essentially, we are keen to build the foundations of understanding preferred learning styles for Pasifika learners. We will develop and disseminate an appropriate and engaging survey/ questionnaire for Pasifika learners across the tertiary sector in Aotearoa NZ. In this questionnaire we are keen to obtain statistical data that gives us patterns of learning-style preferences. We are interested in understanding how well Pasifika learners learn from teaching methods.
Discovery Phase Furthermore in the Discovery stage we will also pull together past and current research on Pasifika learners to form a best evidence synthesis of what works for Pasifika learners. This review of the literature will help to form the foundational pillars for the From Good to Great: The 10 Habits of Phenomenal Educators for Pasifika Learners toolkit. It is our intention to reexamine and reframe past and current research into practice.
Dream Phase It is our intention to have 10 in-depth case studies of phenomenal educators across Aotearoa/NZ. In these case studies, we plan to study educators practice in the classroom through observation and through talanoa/interviews. We will film elements of best practice, which will provide important data and can be used as part of an online resource further down the track. We will also examine achievement rate patterns for the educators over a five year period as well as their teaching evaluations. In gathering participants for these case studies, we hope to recruit a broad selection of educators across universities, polytechnics, PTEs, adult learning contexts, and wananga.
Dream Phase A selection of students (50) from different institutions will be brought together in either face-to face talanoa groups and/or cyber-talanoa groups to discuss what makes an educator phenomenal. Some of these students will be offered the opportunity to participate in video- mentaries a method that allows the student to speak on film/video to their phenomenal educators about the impacts they have made on their lives. We envision that (with ethical clearance) this type of video-mentary can then be used as a resource to be shared online via the Ako Aotearoa website
Design Phase We will develop a toolkit titled From Good to Great: The 10 Habits of Phenomenal Educators for Pasifika Learners. This toolkit will be built from the key learnings and results from the questionnaire/survey, the video-mentaries, talanoa discussions, and the case studies. As we develop this toolkit, we will be communicating with the educators who have been our participants as a way to continually co-design and check the accuracy of our data interpretation.
Destiny Phase In this phase, when the toolkit has been completed, we will aim to develop a professional development programme for tertiary educators and key stakeholders on how to work best with Pasifika learners. This national development programme will start in our own institutions and we will evaluate the uptake of the programme, the changes in teaching for staff and the impacts on students. From this evaluation we will tweak the programme and then continually offer it around the country. Five years on from completion of our project, we envision that the programme will be certified and institutionalized across the country.
