Moving curriculum design from teacher-centric to student-centric
Moving innovative practice and curriculum design from teacher-centric to student-centric without devaluing what we have to offer the learning journeys of our tauira We opened our Year 7-10 Junior High School in 2016, with 636 tauira across all 4 year levels. As an ILE (Innovative Learning Environment) school, we had the privilege of designing a curriculum that was not constrained by some of the issues faced in existing schools, and we were encouraged to do so. In 2015 as a leadership team, and with our teams on board in waves throughout the year before we opened, we visited a range of educational institutes from ECE through to tertiary, and engaged in professional learning. Throughout this time we developed a 3 layered approach to our curriculum. The structure of our Learning Modules encouraged teachers to be creative, effective, and efficient in delivering learning experiences to tauira that took advantage of connections - between ideas, between prior learning experienc