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Manurewa Intermediate – MI Graduate Profile
Iain Taylor - Principal, and Ben Hutchings - Deputy Principal
Manurewa Intermediate School is a decile 1 multicultural school in South Auckland with approximately 800 students, including 50% Pasifika and 37% Māori.
This is our story of how we developed a Graduate Profile and then shaped an approach to enabling students and teachers to collaborate in making progress towards it visible, assessing that progress, and sharing it with parents, whānau, board and community.
This is just one way – there is no innovation without trial and error. We like to innovate. There are holes and things we already know we will change, things we neglected, room for improvement and things we should have acknowledged and included right at the start.
There is a robust dialogue emerging around "knowledge versus skills". Ours is a curriculum approach based on capabilities rather than knowledge acquisition.
How the school is using assessment flexibility wisely – post National Standards
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- Use student and parent voice.
- Goal setting against Graduate Profile.
- Measurable outcomes – success recognisable and evidenced.
- Explicit teaching.
- Use outside experts to work with staff.
- Staff collaborate for modules and to teach explicitly.
- Students self-assess against the Graduate Profile, based on attributes from the essence statement.
The assessment issues the school is currently grappling with:
- measuring success and progress in competencies
- developing student attributes to learning
- building ability to self-assess and then know what they need to do to progress
- getting parents to conference/report nights – teachers will go to homes
- reporting conference – goal based on disposition from essence document, self-assessment by student, action plan of next steps typed on the spot with input from student, teacher and parent
- next steps are how do we measure perceived progress?
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