28th August

Rich Literacy Contexts

Name: Rich Literacy Contexts
Start: 2024-08-28T09:30:40+1200
End: 2024-08-28T16:00:40+1200
Location: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Price $75 NZD + GST Get Tickets

Event description

Dive into literacy with our “Rich Literacy Contexts” workshop at Te Papa. Our workshop, designed for educators, including teacher aides, supports literacy through contextual learning. This workshop will focus on:

Contextualize to Realize: literacy in rich, creative contexts that captivate ākonga and bring learning to life.
Ideas that Ignite: Explore a myriad of innovative ideas at Te Papa that will spark deeper thinking and engagement in your classroom.
Strategies that Stick: Take home actionable strategies that provoke thought and inspire your students to delve into the depths of literacy.

Join us for a workshop where literacy is a journey of exploration. Enrich your teaching with contexts watch as your students’ literacy develops.

Morning tea and free parking in the Te Papa car park will be provided - 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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