30th July

Critical Thinking Strategies

Name: Critical Thinking Strategies
Start: 2024-07-30T09:30:00+1200
End: 2024-07-30T16:00:00+1200
Location: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Price $75 NZD + GST Get Tickets

Event description

Unlock the power of critical thinking with our Critical Thinking Strategies workshop at the Te Papa. Designed specifically for educators, this workshop is aimed at enhancing the way you teach critical thinking across the curriculum.

Join us at Te Papa and embark on a journey to:

Empower ākonga with the ability to dissect and navigate complex concepts.
Expand your teaching toolkit with creative and effective critical thinking tools.
Elevate classroom engagement, transforming every lesson into an adventure in thought.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your kete with strategies that will not only inspire your students but also reinvigorate your passion for teaching. Develop, Discover, and Deliver with the Te Papa Learning team. This is part of a suite of professional learning options that Te Papa will be offering for kaiako.

Morning tea will be provided, along with free parking in the Te Papa car park - details will be sent out two days before the workshop.

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Te Papa Learning Team

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Your facilitators for this course are:

Laura Jones

Laura has worked in the museum education sector for over eight years. Engaging audiences and deepening narratives using art and objects is her passion.

Previously, Laura has taught in schools in Cambridge, London, Barcelona and Wellington, where her interest in art and object-based learning began.

She has a degree in English and Art History, and Postgraduate qualifications in both Education and Museum and Heritage Studies.

Laura loves to help people develop personal connections with art and discover the power of objects to explore critical ideas and narratives. She is passionate about helping teachers and museum professionals engage with museums in creative ways to open up the museum space for challenging conversations.

Mero Rokx

Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Ira

Mero has worked across the education sector, from ECE to tertiary level teaching, for over 15 years and joined the Te Papa learning team at the start of 2024 as one of the Kaupapa Māori Learning Specialists. Mero is passionate about te ao Māori and carries with her a holistic approach to delivery where manaakitanga and whanaungatanga is fundamental to all of her interactions. She generously shares authentic mātauranga gained through both lived and learned experiences and having moved to Wellington from Te Tairāwhiti, works to curate programmes that have a strong focus on kaitiakitanga. Mero is guided by the whakataukī, “horahia e Matariki ki te whenua, te māramatanga mō te motu e” placing significance on the mauri that exists between land and sky.

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