Mentoring
Personalised Mentoring for Technology Educators
Whether you’re a new teacher looking to build confidence or an experienced educator seeking fresh approaches, 1-on-1 mentoring sessions are tailored to meet your specific needs.
Our personalised mentoring provides targeted support in areas such as:
- Pedagogical Improvement: Enhance your teaching strategies, adapt to diverse learning styles, and create more engaging and effective lessons.
- Classroom Management: Explore practical techniques to maintain a positive learning environment, manage student behaviour, and create a classroom culture that fosters creativity and collaboration.
- Navigating the New Zealand Curriculum: For overseas educators or those new to teaching in New Zealand, receive guidance on understanding and integrating the New Zealand Technology Curriculum, NCEA learning and assessment programmes, ensuring your teaching aligns with local standards and practices.
- Digital Tools Mastery: Deepen your knowledge of essential digital tools like Archicad, Microbits, virtual reality platforms, and other innovative software, empowering you to bring cutting-edge technology into your classroom.
These mentoring sessions offer a flexible, individualised approach, allowing you to focus on areas where you want to grow, with guidance from experienced mentors who understand the unique challenges of teaching Technology. Whether you aim to refine your current practices or explore new teaching innovations, these sessions provide the support and resources you need to thrive.
Pricing: $600 for 6 sessions ( online, in person or mix)
Empowered Leadership in Technology: Growing People, Vision, and Systems that Work
These sessions are for Heads of Department and aspiring leaders who want to build a strong, values-driven Technology faculty. One that’s inclusive, future-focused, and grounded in great pedagogy. Whether you’re navigating change, developing new staff, or shaping a shared direction, this workshop supports you to lead with clarity, connection, and courage.
We’ll explore tools and strategies that suit your needs:
- Grow your influence, while fostering a culture of shared leadership and effective communication.
- Align your team’s mahi with school values and vision, while ensuring you have a cohesive Technology Department vision.
- Build a strong foundation of wellbeing and trust using Te Whare Tapa Whā with understanding around how diverse values impact teams.
- Support neurodivergent and early-career teachers through effective communication and thoughtful scaffolding
- Create simple, effective systems using Google or microsoft tools that enhance, not overwhelm planning, assessment, and collaboration
- Begin shaping your own living Technology Handbook, one that reflects your school’s unique context and supports consistent, empowered teaching practice
This is not about top-down change or compliance, it’s about growing your people, sustaining momentum, and building systems that feel human, useful, and future-ready.
Time: 1.5 hours twice a term for 3 terms.
Audience: Technology heads of departments.
Charge: $900 for 6 sessions.
Workshops
Universal Design for Learning in Technology
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a powerful framework that supports the design of learning experiences to cater to the diverse needs of all learners. This workshop will help you identify and minimise barriers hidden in your current activities and teaching practices, ensuring every student is included by design.
Learn how to elevate your teaching and learning programmes with creative, inclusive briefs that foster engagement and accessibility for all. As you navigate the challenges of implementing UDL and differentiated approaches, discover practical strategies to manage the demand on your time and attention—so you don’t feel like you need to clone yourself to meet student needs.
Empower every learner in your classroom with UDL!
Time: 2 hour workshop
Audience: Technology teachers (and wider school)
Charge: $350 - 500
Incorporating Literacy and Numeracy Through Technology
Unlock the potential of your students by embedding essential literacy and numeracy skills into your Technology classroom. This workshop will explore practical strategies for incorporating subject-specific literacy and numeracy within projects in Design and Visual Communication (DVC), Materials and Processing Technology (MPT), and Digital Technologies.
We will focus on using reading and writing strategies developed in the English curriculum and the Literacy Progression guides for Technology to enhance your junior programmes, with a particular emphasis on brief writing, setting SMART goals, self-assessment, evaluations, and stakeholder feedback.
On the numeracy front, we will delve into developing students' understanding of measurement, scale, human interface, and anthropometrics, equipping them with the skills needed to navigate technical plans and drawings.
Strengthen your approach to literacy and numeracy while fostering a comprehensive learning experience for your students
Time: 1.5-2 hours
Audience: Individual teachers, Technology faculties, or cross-curricular teams (Social Sciences/Visual Arts & Technology)
Charge: $350–$500 per session
UN Sustainable Goals & OECD Learning Compass for Higher Primary & Intermediate Students
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and OECD Learning Compass 2030 offer powerful tools for engaging students in meaningful inquiry. The SDGs, a global call to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and protect the environment, can be integrated into classroom learning. The OECD Learning Compass provides a vision for future education, emphasizing student agency, well-being, and key competencies—knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. Together, these frameworks empower students to explore topics of interest, navigate unfamiliar contexts, and take ownership of their learning rather than simply following teacher-led instructions.
Learn about these frameworks, so students in Aotearoa gain opportunities to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills while tackling real-world issues. This approach encourages them to connect their learning to societal challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of their role in creating a sustainable future. This can be used to inquire about Global issues, or local community issues.
Empower your learners to become global citizens.
Time: 2 hour workshop
Audience: Technology, STEM/STEAM teachers
Charge: $350 - 500
Putting the A in STEAM - Helping to encourage divergent thinkers.
Encourage students to embrace curiosity and flexibility in their work, with a focus on generating multiple ideas, solutions, or possibilities when faced with a problem or challenge. Giving opportunities to explore different perspectives, thinking beyond conventional patterns, and make unexpected connections between concepts.
Having the inclusion of the Arts within STEM can lead to many creative and inspired reimagined concepts, shaping ideas in ways that reflect unique experiences and thinking.
Learn how to construct inquiry learning through a STEAM lens, with a framework that helps to encourage cross curricular learning, creating opportunities to be creative and make mistakes.
Learn a few tools to add to your kete of knowledge, and how to resource a creative thinking lesson without spending lots of money.
Time: 2 hour workshop
Audience: Primary, Intermediate, Secondary Technology teachers and STEM/STEAM classrooms.
Charge: $350 - 500
Teacher Only Days
Technology Teacher Only Day PLD gives you and your staff the opportunity to open the box on several different technology learnings. A great way to start the ball rolling, start conversations and look at technological concepts you may wish to develop. Pick from the following bite size options to tailor the day for your staff: Talk to us about other options you have in mind if the menu doesn’t quite suit what you are looking for!
Integrating Mātauranga Māori in Technology Education
Discover how to meaningfully embed Mātauranga Māori, Māori knowledge, values, and perspectives, into your Technology teaching practice. This hands-on introductory workshop offers practical strategies for incorporating Māori worldviews, tikanga (protocols), and te reo Māori into classroom projects, particularly in areas such as design, sustainability, and innovation.
Design Thinking with the TENZ model: From Ideas to Impact
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that fosters innovation, empathy, collaboration, and critical thinking. Using the TENZ designed model for Design Thinking, introduce your staff to the processes that are valuable across multiple areas of their education. Learn best practice techniques around brainstorming and prototyping ideas, testing concepts for viability, and concepts to help students enhance their problem-solving and teamwork abilities.
Universal Design for Learning in Technology
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a powerful framework that supports the design of learning experiences to cater to the diverse needs of all learners. This workshop will help you identify and minimise barriers hidden in your current activities and teaching practices, ensuring every student is included by design.
Putting the A in STEAM - Helping to encourage divergent thinkers.
Having the inclusion of the Arts within STEM can lead to many creative and inspired reimagined concepts, shaping ideas in ways that reflect unique experiences and thinking.
This is about teaching your teachers to embrace curiosity and flexibility in their work, with a focus on generating multiple ideas, solutions, or possibilities when faced with a problem or challenge. Giving opportunities to explore different perspectives, thinking beyond conventional patterns, and make unexpected connections between concepts.
STEAM education
Learn about STEM /STEAM and how you can implement this within your teaching practice. We will look at innovative ways to work through project based learning and how to integrate 2 or more of the curriculum areas , creating meaningful and relevant units of work for your students. You don't need to be an expert in maths or science , or have an in-depth knowledge of engineering to teach STEM, we can explore ways to find the information you need to be successful in STEM education.
Incorporating Literacy and Numeracy Through Technology
Unlock the potential of your students by embedding essential literacy and numeracy skills into your Technology classroom. This workshop will explore practical strategies for incorporating subject-specific literacy and numeracy within projects in Design and Visual Communication (DVC), Materials and Processing Technology (MPT), and Digital Technologies.
UN Sustainable Goals & OECD Learning Compass
Learn about these frameworks, and look at how your students can gain opportunities to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills while tackling real-world issues. This approach encourages them to connect their learning to societal challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of their role in creating a sustainable future. This can be used to inquire about Global issues, or local community issues.