Mana Model

This is an online PLD offering designed to support school and kura leaders in creating learning environments that foster the innate mana of students.

Throughout this course you will learn meaningful and mana-sustaining ways to enhance participation, engagement and achievement of Māori students. You will also gain valuable, actionable insights on how to successfully implement the approach throughout your school and its community.

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Improve the cultural capability of leaders and teachers in your school or kura to create learning environments that foster Māori students' success through five optimal conditions:

• Mana Tangatarua – a diverse knowledge base and skill set
• Mana Tū – social psychological competence 
• Mana Motuhake – embedded achievement and embedded achievement
• Mana Ūkaipō – belonging and relationship with place 
• Mana Whānau – connectedness to others and collective agency 

This programme will help you strengthen leader and teacher cultural capability through:

• Exploring the potential of the Mana Model for enhancing ākonga engagement, success and achievement in your school or kura  
• Building knowledge of each of the Mana Model’s five optimal conditions for success, to inform leadership and teacher practice  
• Understanding the importance of mātauranga Māori and tikanga Māori for culturally sustaining pedagogy and enhancing school relationships 
• Adopting the Mana Model approach as an enactment of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to enhance ākonga engagement and success

Guided by Professor Melinda Webber and her research, and facilitated by Tui Tuia facilitators Martin Turner, Lisa Watson and Mark Dashper, this term-long programme combines three key elements to help school or kura leaders and teachers further strengthen school-wide cultural capability:

Self-directed knowledge-building

Learning modules focusing on the foundations, concepts and real-world integration of the Mana Model

Online, facilitated sessions

Three 90-minute online sessions to build on in-school application, reflection on learning to date and further discussion on important topics as guided by the Community of Practice

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Community of Practice

Online community within the course for course participants to discuss and reflect on key learnings from the course and facilitated sessions

Cost: $449 (GST inclusive) per person

Teaching the Mana Model—A Māori framework for reconceptualising student success and thriving (Melinda Webber). SET: Research Information for Teachers Online First.

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