Best Practices for Culture and Heritage Education in Aotearoa New Zealand

Develop reflective practice techniques and teaching strategies

Teaching in the culture and heritage sector in Aotearoa New Zealand can differ widely depending on the setting.

On this six-week course, you’ll examine reflective practices within teaching and learning frameworks. You’ll devise strategies for best practices in education beyond the classroom.

Create inclusive education environments and learning programs

Having taken a deep dive into reflective practices, you’ll move on to examine effective program design, creating accessible, inclusive, and diverse learning programs.

Using this knowledge, you’ll be able to assess the impact of your current educational provision and identify areas for improvement.

Improve collaborative school and community engagement

Collaboration can enrich learning experiences both for providers and learners.

You’ll discuss the value of collaboration and explore methods to establish effective partnerships with schools, external partners, and within your organisation itself.

By doing so, you’ll be able to design learning programs that are rich, meaningful, and effective for all learners.

Expand your understanding of educational policies, from child protection to health and safety

Any new best practices should be underpinned by a thorough understanding of the legislation and policies surrounding culture and heritage education.

You’ll explore child protection, health and safety, and monitoring and reporting. With this overview, you can ensure that effective procedures are followed within your learning frameworks.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a firm understanding of educational best practices within culture and heritage settings. You’ll have developed reflective skills, allowing you to adapt past activities and improve learner outcomes moving forward.

This course is designed for educators in Aotearoa New Zealand who work in settings beyond the classroom. Learners should have at least one year’s experience as an educator outside of standard classroom settings.

• Good, better, best practices
• Haere mai ki tēnei akomanga!
• Good - better - best practices
• Contributing to good practices
• Your reflective journal
• Wrap up and connect
• Reflective practice
• Haere mai ki te wiki tuarua
• What is reflective practice, and why does it matter?
• Professional inquiry
• Incorporating reflective practice into your work
• Wrap up and connect
• Accessibility and inclusion
• Haere mai ki te wiki tuatoru!
• Accessibility and inclusion
• Accessible culture and heritage institutions
• Wrap up and connect
• Designing rich and meaningful learning programmes
• Haere mai ki te wiki tuawhā!
• Inquiry Learning
• Rich and meaningful learning programmes
• Weaving learning across the curriculum
• Quality assurance and evaluation
• Wrap up and connect
• Collaboration and partnerships
• Haere mai ki te wiki tuarima!
• Why collaborate?
• Collaboration with schools
• Collaboration within your organisation
• Partnerships with community, local experts and other organisations
• Wrap up and connect
• Policies and procedures
• Haere mai ki te wiki whakamutunga
• Vision, mission and strategy
• Child Protection
• Health and safety
• Monitoring and reporting
• Course summary