Qualifications
Teacher Registration (Pūmau | Full) - 171947
Accredited Facilitator (Ministry of Education) - ACC 264 (+ cultural capability endorsement)
New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience Accredited Facilitator
Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing - Langley Group
Diploma in Teaching (Kindergarten) – Auckland College of Education
Apple Professional Development Consultant
Google Certified Teacher
Testimonials
"Tania is an experienced, professional leader who is able to influence with purpose. She establishes a culture that encourages people to adapt, thrive and undertake collective work that has a positive purpose." (School Principal)
"Tania is an excellent facilitator, mentor and coach. She has the expertise to design and lead effective meetings and involves everyone in reaching outcomes that we couldn’t achieve individually. She manages the group process with skill and supports staff to be invested and committed." (School Principal)
"Tania has fostered a culture of mutual trust, and encouraged us to build a shared understanding of wellbeing. This has challenged our thinking and enabled deep conversations around both our own wellbeing and that of our school staff and students." (School Principal)
Professional experience
Tania is a dedicated and experienced education professional who joined Tātai Aho Rau in 2009. Tania has had 15 years of facilitating across early years, primary and secondary education.
Through her commitment to whanaungatanga and manaakitanga, Tania builds strong, trust-based relationships with schools, clusters and kaiako across the early years and compulsory sectors. She is skilled at supporting the identification of professional learning needs of schools and teachers, and she works collaboratively to design professional learning opportunities to target those goals.
With a strong foundation in the science of learning, Tania applies research-based principles to improve educational practices. She utilises evidence from cognitive science in her own practice and in the programmes she supports to develop pedagogies that enhance memory, understanding, and application of knowledge among students.
Expertise
Tania has expertise in the following areas:
Change leadership
Successfully supporting learning communities to:
- explore current research to support shifts to future-focused teaching practices
- evaluate pedagogy and practices to ensure they reflect future-focused education practices, and are driven by inquiry
- lead positive change within a community.
Digital fluency
Successfully supporting learning communities to:
- apply agreed frameworks to self-review practices and capabilities to identify and target areas for improvement
- increase student engagement and achievement through the use of digital technologies
- develop digital capabilities of teachers suited to the needs of future-focused teaching practices.
Future-focused education
Successfully supporting learning communities to:
- Identify areas that need improvement and develop appropriate goals and plans for how to get there
- implement highly effective teaching practices and pedagogies
- understand how to leverage knowledge creation and networked sharing in a digital environment to increase engagement and improve educational outcomes for all learners
- increase inclusiveness, accessibility, and visibility of high quality teaching and learning
- manage change by enabling cross-school coherence of vision, goals and practices.
Communities of online learning
- facilitating online communities of practice for teachers
- mentoring, coaching and facilitating in online settings
- implementing innovative learning and teaching practices
- designing curriculum to empower teachers and learners.
Assessment for learning
Successfully supporting schools to:
- use assessment principles that best support effective learning and teaching.
- implement highly effective assessment for learning strategies school wide
- actively engage ākonga within the learning process
- build learner agency
Cultural capability
As an Ministry of Education accredited cultural capability facilitator, successfully supporting schools to:
- explore and design culturally responsive practices for their context
- explore their ability to understand and honour their Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations
- critically review and then implement professional development programmes which ensure that everyone in a setting is able to see their culture reflected in programmes.
Recent conference presentations, keynotes, seminars, workshops
2021 with A. Kenneally, Identifying and Using Strengths - Using Story Hui to Celebrate Success – uLearn Conference
2021 with M. Campbell, Leveraging Strengths-based Teaching to Address Equity and Wellbeing – uLearn Conference
2021 with L. Ojala and K. Delahunty, Reset, Refresh, Recharge - Using the Five Ways to Wellbeing – uLearn Conference
2016 Let’s Get Creative - Moving your Stories with Animation. uLearn Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand
2016 with T. Fagan, Coding and Robotics
2016 with T. Fagan, Digital Literacies in the Early Years
2016 Visible Teaching and Learning through the Power of Google Sites Digital Horizon Conference, Whangarei, New Zealand.
2016 Let's Get Creative - Moving your Stories with Chrome Apps – GEGNZ Summit, Auckland, New Zealand.
2016 Let's Get Creative - Moving your Stories with Chrome Apps. Kaikohekohe Educational Trust – Teacher Only Day, Waitangi, New Zealand
2015 Google Apps as a Launching Pad - Supporting Modern Learning Pedagogy – CORE Education Breakfast and Workshop, Dunedin, New Zealand
2015 Google Apps as a Launching Pad - Supporting Modern Learning Pedagogy – CORE Education Breakfast and Workshop, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Personal statement
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata – I am driven to develop strong and effective relationships with people, thorough the development of high trust and a shared vision. I believe in providing a safe and engaging learning environment in a culturally respective way.
I am highly skilled at working within a range of contexts from early childhood education to secondary, bringing creativity and depth of pedagogical understanding to the professional learning environment I help create.
I am experienced with facilitating both face-to-face and online, and can tailor delivery and professional learning in dynamic ways to meet the needs and identity of each participant.
An ongoing area of my professional passion is mentoring leaders and teachers, supporting them to embrace the rapid change and transformation currently occurring in education.
