This week we had some tasks to do for our culture assignment two so we were based in the staff room and not in class rooms. The tasks we had to do were observe in two or three classrooms to look at culturally responsive teaching and we had to plan and implement two rich lessons around technology and we chose cooking.
The highlights were going into the classrooms and seeing things like manaakitanga, kotahitanga and Rangatiratanga being performed by the teachers and now I have this knowledge being able to recognise this happening. The best part for me was doing the baking and cooking with children. We had to bring together a group of six children from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and to provide an experience to see how the children interact. I was amazed with the result of it something like cooking broke down all cultural barriers and the children

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