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Dr Mark Jeunnette 
Director of Engineering Design 

The goal of this project

To improve 299 delivery by supporting our front-line shop staff (GTAs) to assess situations, make thoughtful intervention decisions, and prioritise student learning.

Design thinking was used throughout to uncover unmet GTA needs and develop four training modules with accompanying artefacts.

Process

Co-Design Approach 

The Design Thinking Framework was used to:

  • enable relational learning and co-creation between GTAs, students, academics, and teaching technicians
  • surface differing experiences of users
  • identify non-obvious insights
  • discover deep human-centred insights

We achieved this by creating a Design Thinking online collaboration space with the use of the Miro platform and through a spirit to explore new tools and methods.

Design Thinking 


Below you can see a snippet from our Online Collaboration Miro board. A Miro account is not necessary to view the below board, you have "View" access.  To open the board in a new browser tab, use this link. Links to an external site.


ARTEFACT 1

299 GTA Training Modules

Module 1: Community building within GTAs and connection to the course  (90 minutes)

Learning objectives 

  • To build a community within GTAs
  • To introduce Māori values
  • To help GTAs articulate value of 299 for them / all students

    Outline
  • Introduction and Icebreaker 
    • Icebreaker: GTA Values Continuum
    • Introduce Māori values, with emphasis on Mihimihi and Whanaungatanga
  • Intro on reflection on modelling of behaviours with Think/Pair/Share
  • GTAs share their own experience learning hands-on skills
  • Help the GTAs talk about the value of the course/connection to the industry in their own 
    words  

 Module 1

Module 2: One-on-one GTA - student interactions

Learning objectives 

  • How to deal with scenarios technical/emotional/relational
  • Introduction to Māori values, with emphasis on Whakamana te Tāngata and Taukana/Teina relationship

This is achieved by:

  • demo role-playing
  • small group role-playing

Outline

  • Māori values
    • Whakamana te Tāngata
    • Tuakana/Teina
  • Technical/ emotional/ relational situations
  • Student personas
  • Scenarios and role-playing

Module 2

 Module 3: Small group interactions

artefact

Learning objectives 

  • To analyse and apply strategies for interacting with different scenarios with groups of 
    students
  • Effectively communicate and advise other GTAs on how to deal with small groups
  • Leverage the opportunities of working with small groups
  • Introduce Māori Values: Tika and Manaakitanga 

Outline

  • Māori values
    • Tika
    • Manaakitanga
  • Icebreaker GTA Group therapy
  • Scenario mapping
  • Facilitation/origami exercise

Module 3

Module 4: Managing/reading the room

Learning objectives 

  • Creating community/reflection on GTAs as a group
  • Managing the atmosphere of the room (welcoming, fun, warm)

Outline

  • Evaluating community within a session
  • What makes a "warm" session?

Stepped progression:

  • What makes Ron (Teaching Technician) so effective?
  • Actions directly with students
  • Actions with other course staff
  • Generally, how do you as a leader create a warm and welcoming environment?
  • Reflect on the GTAs as a group and their community
  • Reflect on their own teaching as a GTA

Modul 4

Wrap-up (post-review) - do this in every session at the end (15 minutes):
 • We tried to model the meta behaviour during this session • Future sessions will run similarly, where facilitators model elements of teaching methodologies that we would like you to practice. • What was the instructor trying to do? Did it work/not work?

 

ARTEFACT 2

Māori Values Activity

A printed set of value cards will be handed out to the GTAs in the workshop. GTAs also have an accompanying H5P activity to practise their pronunciation. The activity is introduced in Artefact 5 on this page.

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Mihimihi

Mihimihi

Whanaungatanga

Whanaungatanga

Manaakitanga

Manaakitanga

Tuakana / Teina

Tuakana / Teina

Whakamana te Tāngata

Whakamana te Tāngata

 Cards inspired by: Manuel, Robyn. “What Is Tika When Teaching Small Groups in a University Setting in Aotearoa New Zealand?” MAI review 3 (2010): Print. Links to an external site.

ARTEFACT 4

Feedback Activities

H5P Feedback for each Module

H5P Feedback example

You can scan the QR code to see an example of the H5P course feedback activity on your mobile. 

You can also click here Links to an external site. to open the H5P activity in a new browser tab.

 

Feedback Capture Grid Download Feedback Capture Grid

 

 

Exit Tickets Download Exit Tickets

 

 

Feedback in Small Groups in the MDLS  Download Feedback in Small Groups in the MDLS 

 

ARTEFACT 5

H5P Active Learning Activity

This H5P activity is accompanying the printed Māori Value Cards. GTAs can access the activity in their 299 GTA Training Canvas course or via a QR code in the MLDS. The aim is to familiarise yourself with the values and practice their pronunciation.

QR code to H5P activity

You can scan the QR code to open the H5P activity on your mobile. 

You can also click here Links to an external site.to open the H5P activity in a new browser tab.

 

artefact