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Deciding on action

Two students dressed up for a  school green jam.

This involves taking what we’ve learned and considering what we will do with the information and exploring alternatives. It is an ideal way to engage in cross-curricular learning. There is real potential to create opportunities for students to develop interviewing skills and co-operative skills, determine budgets, be creative and innovative, create technical plans and take action to become agents of change.

Effective planning is a vital part of the action process. Consider whether there are established procedures or protocols you can use to add robustness and usefulness to any data collected.

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Questions to consider

  • Who uses or manages the area/situation/process that we’d like to address?

  • Who do we need to involve?

  • Who do we need to consult before making decisions?

  • Are there tikanga or special customary traditions we need to follow?

  • What is our timeframe?

  • Is this a one-off action or do we need to plan for ongoing/future action?

  • Does the weather or the season influence when we should carry out our project?

  • What skills will we need?

  • What processes, methodologies or protocols do we need to follow to ensure that our actions provide quality data?

  • Who are the people who can help us with the processes or protocols?

  • How will we store or analyse any data we collect?

  • Will the project require funding or other resources?

  • How can we obtain funding/resources?

  • How will our actions lead to the change we are seeking?

Acknowledgement: Andrea Soanes

Rights: Andrea Soanes
Published:17 March 2020Size: 397.13 KB