Pacific cultural competency workbook
This workbook complements the Tapasā framework and is designed to help you embrace cultural diversity and make a difference in each child’s educational success.
About this resource
The Pacific cultural competency workbook complements Tapasā and is designed to help you improve the way you engage with Pacific learners, their parents, families, and communities to make a big difference in each child’s educational success.
Pacific cultural competency workbook
The Pacific cultural competency workbook is part of a cohesive suite of professional learning resources that are critical for embracing cultural diversity and will enable your school and your leaders to implement the Tapasā framework in a way that is engaging and meaningful.
This values guide builds awareness that will be a lens for your teaching practice and lead to more effective collaboration with Pacific communities. You may come to understand cultural values that currently present challenges and opportunities in your teaching setting. These values characterise Pacific learners and their communities and are also meaningful in Pacific customs, practices, and ways of being.
This guide uses the Tapasā videos to show how these values are interconnected and how your Pacific learners may see them. We also explore how these values can help you navigate cross-cultural communication and develop practical teaching and learning strategies that illustrate these values.
Access the Pacific cultural competency workbook on Google Slides.
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Tapasā proverbs
This resource contains a set of proverb cards to support kaiako conversations and reflections on their practice.
1 of 10Exploring Tapasā
Tapasā is a cultural competencies framework for teachers. In this resource, explore the history of Tapasā, the Pasifika Success Compass and why you should work with Tapasā.
2 of 10Tapasā values
This resource explores values that support the Tapasā framework, including Pacific values, being culturally responsive, and engaging with parents, families, and communities.
3 of 10Teaching stories - Parent and whānau engagement
Find out ways that parents and whānau can guide what happens in the classroom. These narratives show the aspirations and expectations of Pacific parents and explore how whānau can help guide teachers into better understandings and practices.
4 of 10Teaching stories - Community engagement
Find out ways that Pacific communities in Aotearoa have led teachers and schools to levels of greater understanding and involvement with Pacific students and how you could successfully connect in your own context.
5 of 10Teaching stories - Student engagement
Find out ways that students can guide what happens in the classroom. These videos show strong examples of student voices expressing their needs and aspirations in a way that can help teachers sit up and take notice.
6 of 10Teaching stories - Where am I?
An exploration of the local context. Who is in your school community? Which Pacific group/s do they connect with? How are your students connected to their community?
7 of 10Teaching stories - Who am I?
An exploration of a teacher's own identity and an inquiry into the Pacific identities of students and the place culture plays in their lives.
8 of 10Key messages from Tapasā
In this resource, explore key messages of Tapasā: foundations of cultural responsiveness, knowing yourself, and the bigger picture—links to the curriculum, codes and standards, and Tātaiako.
9 of 10Tapasā framework
This resource explores the Tapasā framework and ngā turu, the competencies, that describe behaviours and understandings at the different stages of the teaching journey.
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