How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We wrote poetry in response to our work. We also shared our work and our response to it in our school newsletter.

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? They created beautiful work and shared their own personal stories. We recognised our shared values of inclusivity and kindness towards all people.

How effective was using the context of art to explore and celebrate inclusivity?

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? They enjoyed creating their art work and also having the shared purpose of sharing their work with whanau and the community hall.

“This was a fantastic kit for really bringing together language and art as well as our values. The children love art and were highly motivated and challenged by the learning in this unit. We have been learning about kaitiakitanga for our Inquiry learning and this unit kotahitanga unit of work sat alongside this so beautifully, to extend our care to all people and things. The conversations we had about racism and prejudice were thoughtful and emotional at times too.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Will be reusing this kit in the future to integrate into inquiry and literacy. Even though it was developed out of Covid, it is a topic that is always important, and this made it easier for many of our kids to begin to explore what many see as a hard topi

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? We used the art element as a way to integrate our literacy program. Kids loved it and the printing blocks were so helpful. Some of our kids took it further and created their own printing blocks also.

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? Really well. Linked into our inquiry around Protests also, and the impact that art can have, as everyone interprets things differently..

“What an awesome kit to support kids into delving into racism and inclusivity!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Some great engagement. Provided good segway for planning for beginning of the new year, inclusiveness, racism, culturalism

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? Art as a context allowed students to illustrate thoughts, ideas and in some cases personal experiences that may not usually be conveyed through literacy (for example).

How effective was using the context of art to explore and celebrate inclusivity?

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? Students learnt that art and the concept of art is subjective. For some learning how to convey a message - not just a 'picture'.

“The kit provided a good scaffold for the teacher to implement a context through art. When trying to think of a way to teach inclusivity through art it was quite overwhelming. THe kit helped with this.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Using art across the curriculum

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? discuss

How effective was using the context of art to explore and celebrate inclusivity?

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? Promoted conversations

“Good kits, but found it difficult to connect to my current class (y3-4) - maybe suited better to older kids”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Understanding people in our community. Expressing ourselves through art.

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? Was super interesting and a great was to hook them in and engage them.

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? Helped them understand reasoning behind art and expressing ourselves.

“Awesome inspiration”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I'm thinking about the beginning of the year and how this kit could be used to explore ideas around BELONGING as a topic. In terms of art, we created a digital exhibition of the art we created, and shared that with parents through our online portal, but

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? Through the context of art, the students were able to explore their own identity and appreciate the uniqueness of each other -using the same symbol united them, however, the choice around the different types of paper generated great discussion and sharing

How effective was using the context of art to explore and celebrate inclusivity?

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? The kit openened the gateway for discussion. It also afforded a range of activities to explore identity , culture, respect, choice, etc. It was through this process that one of my students, who had been going through school being called by his nick nam

“The Kotahitanga kit generated great discussion around identity, inclusivity, acceptance and tolerance. The kit itself was so well resourced, provided quality resources and had a variety of activities that could be easily followed from the plan provided or easily adapted to suit the level of the students being worked with. Below are some comments from my students: I learned about being the change. Being the change means changing your actions and how you see other people. Some people may look different, but at the end of the day, we are all people. Don't look at the outside, see what they are in the heart. The three photos are part of our identity which is special and is nothing we should be ashamed of, don't change a thing about you, instead, just be your." "I learned about being the change. Being the change means changing your actions and how you see other people. Some people may look different, but at the end of the day, we are all people. Don't look at the outside, see what they are in the heart. The three photos are part of our identity which is special and is nothing we should be ashamed of, don't change a thing about you, instead, just be your." "I think that it was a good change to start learning about more darker topics and being more aware of the world in general, my favourite part about the Kotahitanga unit is that we show our true self and our identity through creativity." The artist's statement that the students wrote for their digital exhibition was very poignant. Fantastic unit - thank you!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? History of racism, art printing, new found poem.

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? My class were able to explore their culture and identity with the differnt types of documents they gathered. The discussion that happened and knowledge that was being shared about their identity was really great to hear.

How effective was using the context of art to explore and celebrate inclusivity?

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? The colour and symbol representation gave our students an opporunity to explain their art and what it meant for them on a personal level, it encouraged deep and meaningful thinking.

“A great unit that gives the students a way to explore and undertand racism in New Zealand.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will be looking at using art at the beginning of the year to produce art work that links to the new class and their differences. Showing that we are different but still working together for the same purpose of leanring.

How did using art as the context allow your learners to explore the themes of racism and inclusivity? We looked at different art works and dicussed what they took from these.

How effective was using the context of art to explore and celebrate inclusivity?

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How did this kit help your students understanding of art with a purpose? Once they could conect the art to the purpose they were alot mor engaged with it. They were very interested in making their own art with a purpose of one of our school values.

“This was an amazing kit for my students. We were also able to link this to our school values.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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