1. Becoming effective teachers for under 25 students: A model for professional development decision making
Judith Honeyfield - Bay of Plenty Polytechnic
Dr. Vaughan Bidois – Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Other team members:
Dr. Lesley Petersen - Eastern Institute of Technology
Mike Crossan - Wintec,
Liz Fitchett, Helen van Toor & Leonie Nicholls - Waiariki Institute of Technology

2. Overview of this project
Five partners EIT, BoPP, TWWOA, Wintec, Waiariki.
Ako Aotearoa funded – 2 year - NPF.
70% of case studies are trades programmes and national certificates with an industry focus
30% at degree level - Education (Primary and Early Childhood), & Computing.
Utilises a Kaupapa Maori Framework – social, cultural and political context.
Each institution has its own context, environment and cultural setting.

3. Aim and Purpose of the Project
To investigate and evaluate decision making processes that positively impact upon the success and achievement of Under 25 students.
To identify key factors that support decision making processes and professional development for effective teaching of under 25 students.
To critically analyse existing perceptions of professional development in the advancement of a student-centred, teacher driven decision making model of success and achievement

4. Project background TES Priority Groups
The Tertiary Education Strategy (TES) calls for better performance from the tertiary education sector including raising achievement and progression for all students under 25 and for the Māori and Pasifika students.
EIT Study
A study undertaken at the Eastern Institute of Technology in 2013, investigated teacher professional development for youth, Maori and Pacific students, found that there is no evidence-based model that guides professional development decision-making for teachers of this student cohort.
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5. Decision making model

6. Student voices

7. Methodology - Kaupapa Māori
Transformative and Collaborative Student-centered Research
Critical and Reflexive in its Approach – Ethical Framework
Culturally Responsive and Context Situated (Fa’a Samoa and Kaupapa Māori Approaches)
2 Research Team Hui to address and agree – Embedding Kaupapa Māori
Acknowledging Diversity of Student Identity and Culture
How do we know what we know? - Challenging ourselves as researchers and as a research team.
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8. Social Policy Evaluation and Research (SPEaR)
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9. Developing a Conceptual Framework
Cultural
Cultural
Government
Hapū/ Iwi
Teacher
Structural
Structural
Friends/ Whānau
Institution
Student
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Staff Developer
Political
Political

10. Participants and tools
10 Case studies high number under 25 - Action research approach
Student focus groups
Teacher interviews
Staff developer and learner support staff interviews
Line managers and Heads of school
Project champion
Range of PD interventions – delivery – resource development
Student & teacher evaluations – iterative, critical and reflexive

11. Progress to date 253 Student interviews 76 Teaching staff interviews
12 Staff developers & student support interviews
28 Leadership team interviews
PD activities constructed/monitoring

12. Key themes emerging informed by student voice across the five institutions :
Case study participants as champions – repositioning
Decision-making processes engaging with and challenging the traditional notion of PD ( external vs internal)
Key questions emerging from the case studies - what is professional development? - more reflective/reflexive about own practice with under 25’s
Leadership/sponsorship and champions – as researchers and teachers
General engagement – seen as valuable and yet some disengagement

13. Project next steps Continued Data collection
Capturing uniqueness of case studies
Tracking PD planning, resources, decision-making and outcomes for staff and students.
Repositioning how we think and talk about PD as researchers
Acknowledging current effective practice as well as identifying areas for new resource development for PD for under 25’s
Team meeting as reflexive praxis talks to social, political and cultural influences on ourselves as educators and researchers to transform the lives of our students.

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