Aotearoa NZ Histories 22 Reviews

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How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Absolutely (see general review comment above).

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Ka Huru Manu, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? With this kit, I will feel much, much more confident to make Aotearoa NZ Histories a consistent and continuous part of my classroom teaching.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? This helped me to feel confident to teach this kit, knowing that I was honouring local iwi.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I taught this kit in four Year 5/6 classes this term. We focused on two kaupapa: Impact and Mātauranga, which have cultural significance in our local area (Ōtautahi). Thanks to the depth of information to be found in the teacher resources, and the fantastic format of the student site: somethinghappenedhere.co.nz, all classes were able to dive deeply into these kaupapa, and also connect them with previous and new in-lcass learning. The peheha at the beginning of each study enabled us to explore sites such as Te Aka and Ka Huru Manu to build knowledge of our local areas, as well as springboard us into refining our own pepeha. We were able to also further investigate, to include learning about our immediate area in our community -eg the significance of the Tī Kōuka at Burnside High School and Hereora Springs at Jellie Park and the connections of these places to Raureka's journeys. The children were able to build a better understanding of how how to analyse artifacts, combining ideas to develop a possible idea of what happened here. This was a highly valuable, critical thinking task. As was the development of analysing history for whose voice is evident and whose is missing. Some children drew a correlation between scientific advice being ignored or downplayed in history (at the proposal of introduction on ferrets, stoats, weasels to control rabbit population), as is happening from some groups with the current issues of climate change. I highly recommend this as a reliable, flexible resource for teachers that will make for many, many years of deep, pertinent and essential learning.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It provided the inspiration to delve more deeply into local history, and a handy framework to use that makes it all far less daunting a prospect. Mostly it gave my teaching team a shared touchstone and development scheme for pursuing that shared goal

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? NZ On Screen, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Feeling a lot more calm about it now. We have some great resources and a wonderful starting point now

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It made history real for the tamariki, they engaged with personal narratives as actual events rather than things that exist only in books or worksheets. Moreover, it gave them a sense of being historical beings themselves - living in a time and place and

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“A fantastic, well structured, approach to the material that really took the stress off and let us focus on a localised curriculum. Highly recommended”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I think as a teacher learning more about NZ history and my students history is very important to me to explore more of.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? NZ On Screen

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I am still building on my NZ Histories Curriculum knowledge and skills

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? I think my students preference of interest was their own family history as either migrants or tangata whenua

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“The visuals definitely supported my students engagement with the kit, however due to my students diverse learning abilities I used another teaching approach which was creativity- digital short films - documentary”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kit allowed conversations and wonderings to start to happen at home.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? National Library, Papers Past, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This resource has been really helpful. I have not yet even fully engaged with all the resources supplied (physically and digitally) as there is so much packed in here and at so many different levels of the curriculum. This will be a treasure for years to

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It gave me a sense that I was teaching things that had genuine voice. It allowed good conversations with learners to take place about bias, perspective and how even history can change over time as our lenses and understanding shift.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“This kit is exceptionally well presented and useful. The resources are multi functional and encouraged deep, rich, meaningful conversations. The supporting material allowed me to develop my own knowledge alongside my students. Many things I was aware of, some, not so much. The variety of possible teaching paths allowed learners to work at their own pace and depth. I felt empowered to not know, and then grow.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? There is a serious lack of southern voices in this resource. Impact and Franchise were probably the only two stories that really connected to our local area. The group working on Impact were surprised at the history of Hagley Park as we visit it every wee

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? National Library, Papers Past, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? If anything, it has probably lessened my confidence. I am passionate and knowledgable about history and enjoy teaching it, but relentlessly filtering everything through a 2022 social justice lens is tiresome and degrades the context our ancestors lived in

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? The impact on me as an educator was high. I liked that each story had a section to explain what the important stakeholders wanted us to know. I would use this information to help frame discussions with my students. The impact on student learning was proba

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“Using the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Kit with my year 7/8 class, I was struck most, not by the voices that were present, but by the ones that weren't. And of course, those voices shape our identity. The personal, the cultural and the national. I personally traverse two worlds of identity. I'm a male, post-colonial Pākeha. I'm a vague exonym navigating awkwardly somewhere between insult and imagination, depending on who you talk to. A ‘Tangata Tiriti’ who helps run the Kapahaka. I am also a 7th generation ancestor of proud colonials. Scottish stoicism. Work as a moral good. Survivor of the industrial revolution. The Highland Clearances. Colonisation on colonisation. Human endeavour from adversity. Or white privileged. Again, depending on who you talk to. This resource emphasises the fact there are always two voices to a story. But what voices? What stories? The labourers, explorers, settlers, inventors, pioneers? Stories like two of my 3rd great-grandfathers? They're not uncommon! Take James McNeil 1799–1876, who escaped bonded servitude as a horseman in Dunbartonshire after his clan were driven from their land on the Scottish island of Barra. He went on to found Balclutha. Is his kind of story here? Take also William Riddler 1801–1879. Pretty good story! Duped by the New Zealand Company, he fought for his life in the Hutt Valley, and dragged his dying neighbour's son from the Hutt River after being attacked by some Māori, displaced by Te Rauparaha. Or maybe my wife's ancestor, Carl Neilsen 1848–1919, who invented the otter trawl in Hawke's Bay, revolutionising the global fishing trade. A nod to the industrialists without a suffragette or eco angle in the mix? Not without"The Message", team, because there's really only one narrative here. These people didn't live in a bubble of course, but their voices aren't really in this resource because they aren't heard in their own context. None of them are. At least, not without the footnoting, the qualifying, the re-contextualising, and the continual cultural reframing this resource puts on events by making them all about 2022 values. The guise of balancing the story with the actual outcome of changing it altogether, which of course is the goal of this kit. Because however carefully crafted and user-friendly, this resource is deliberately not about specific parts of Aotearoa New Zealand's history. Not really. Not honestly. But it's okay. I get it. Some people might think it’s about time. But this history is just someone's story.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We are already exploring our local area and are excited about the range of cultural discoveries we may make.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph, Digital NZ, Papers Past

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This kit has provided me with resources and information to be able to suit the class in front of me.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Helps to the authenticity.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This kit provides teachers with a lot of very well organised information and resources. It enables the teacher to continue a Histories discovery in a way of their choosing. The tasks themselves required a significant about of reading from students. A lot of time would be required to fully utilise this fabulous resource.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have always started with our local histories so this kit has been great to go further afield hearing from the perspectives of different iwi

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Ka Huru Manu, Kareao, National Library, Papers Past

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has given me lots more material to pull from and a greater understanding of the stories further afield.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Gave great security in using the kit.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“This kit has been invaluable. It has been the basis for my tuakana literacy programme with many of our teina listening in and being curious too.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kit promoted many wonderings about our local area. It would have been awesome if one of the postcards related to events in Hawkes Bay.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? NZ On Screen, National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It felt very safe to delve into histories through the use of this kit.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Learners loved making connections to their own pepeha.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“My class loved using this kit. They found the"Something Happened Here"website engaging and informative while still provoking wonderings. I introduced one “postcard” to look into as a class and next term will give learners some agency to pick what inspires them. I think a directed approach first time around is needed for learners to be successful navigating the website and in moving through the tasks. We focused on “Chinkon” and also read “Enemy Camp” by David Hill which complemented the learning beautifully. This is a great resources that I’m sure I will be using for years to come. Thank you for putting this kit together.”

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Posted 2 years ago