CORE COMPETENCIES # 8 - YOUTH WORKERS ARE REFLECTIVE PRACTIONERS

This session explores 'Youth workers are reflective practitioners, informed by rich and diverse mātauranga'. This competency is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle of Mātauranga.

Core Competency Descriptor:
a. Regularly prepares for and engages in supervision to ensure ongoing reflective practice is enhanced
b. Integrates experience, theory, research and reflection into own practice, incorporating the needs of young people
c. Weaves together different forms of knowledge, including indigenous knowledge to support practice
d. Seeks and attends professional development opportunities that transforms practice personally and collectively, contributing to the development of youth work in Aotearoa.