The Kia Ōrite Toolkit

How will the toolkit help?

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The Kia Ōrite Toolkit supports people who take part in the tertiary education system to treat everyone the same.

This includes people who:

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  • learn at a tertiary education organisation

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  • teach at a tertiary education organisation.

The toolkit is a document for everyone at a tertiary organisation.

This includes:

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  • teachers and staff

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  • tauira – a learner.

The toolkit has 5 parts that explain:

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  • what good support is like

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  • how tertiary education organisations can deliver good supports

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  • who needs to take part so they can deliver good supports.

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When tertiary education organisations use the toolkit, they should include disabled learners.

This includes when tertiary education organisations plan:

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  • buildings

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  • what courses they will teach.

It also includes how tertiary education organisations:

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  • teach

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  • share information.