Master TetraMap Facilitator Jan Alley invited me to meet Glen Ryan, Principal at St. Anne’s Catholic School Manurewa, Auckland New Zealand. Jan has been working with Glen and his team since 2017, providing TetraMap training regularly as one of the central pillars of the school’s ongoing professional development events.
Collaborative learning as an instructional approach is widely used in higher education institutions where students work together to converse with peers, exchange knowledge and skills to accomplish common goals. Efficacy of knowledge acquisition, disposition, and enrichment could be the positive result of collaborative learning. However, students without an adequate understanding of group dynamics revealed that diversity in groups inhibited productive group dynamics.
All around the globe, TetraMap Facilitators are enablers – trained to unravel the complexity of human behaviour in ways that celebrate our natural diversity. Not only does TetraMap unite people using a set of tools that help them learn from one another, it also creates sustainable business solutions to achieve tangible performance results.
This study examined how TetraMap and Belbin worked in parallel and helped students to better understand what was happening as the Team Learning activity took place.
A UK school study into the four Elements offers explanations and tips for educators. Moving away from a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach towards empowering senior students to accept the challenges of self-directed learning, the concepts of TetraMap can help teachers, students and their parents recognise individuals’ learning preferences.
Teachers and staff at Holy Cross School were introduced to a new way of communication and collaborating that improved staff relationships. As mindsets shifted, staff realised they could apply their learning with students.