Thurs 10 Nov 2022 Click here to read the story of Te Tauoma maunga, Te Tauoma whenua, Te Tauoma tāngata as told by Matua Harley Wade. When listening to Matua Harley kōrero about the landmarks, I felt the mamae of his people, who are now just resettling back into their tūrangawaewae, and who have for…
Author: Ruiha Epiha
Ōhinerangi Rauemi Reo Māori
I recently purchased a rauemi I saw advertised on Buy Māori on Facebook. Below are some of my thoughts and uses of this amazing rauemi. My Year 11 students have been working on different rerenga, including reremahi, rerewā, and rerewāhi. I have been using this rauemi to reinforce and revise the above rerenga (sentences). Ngā…
Ngā Rauemi Huhua
I have been using a myriad of rauemi, including those by Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, Ako Panuku, Ian Cormack and Nadine McKinnon. I have used the communicative language tasks of He Reo Tupu, He Reo Ora resource, the TBLT resources created by Jannie van Hees and Sarah Payne, the purpose-based learning He Manu Tuhituhi writing resources, the controlled…
Tikanga In My Akomanga
After observing Whaea Waitonga’s class at Aorere College, I made some changes to our class routines. I included removing shoes, mihi, and waiata/hīmene to our tikanga processes. Some ākonga have embraced the new introduced tikanga process, others have not. I asked those that were not keen on it and their responses included: There is a…
Te Korokoro o Te Parata
What is a significant moment of learning? Te Aho Arataki Marau mō te Ako i te Reo Māori (TAAM) and the NCEA assessment system is only serving to widen the learning gaps for some of our te reo Māori students in English-medium schools. The proposed changes to NCEA will do nothing to alleviate this issue….
Learning for Assessment vs Just Learning
What is a significant moment of learning from the last season? This year as I walk around the school the juniors are still likely to respond in the manner outlined above but the Year 11 learners are more likely to respond to the question, ‘what are you doing?’ with the response ‘an assessment.’ How did I come…
Update: New Resource
After 3 weeks of using the new resource using TBLT strategies, my students were completely bored and disinterested. When I would pull out the resource, they would sigh and say, “aww are we doing this again?” It can be disengaging for ākonga who are advancing fast and are not being challenged. I feel like I…
Te Ora o te Reo me ngā Tikanga
I got to observe Whaea Waitonga and her mahi with her Te Reo Māori and Tikanga ā-Iwi classes and I can confidently say that te reo and tikanga Māori are thriving in Whaea Waitonga’s akomanga. The following are some of the key observation notes that lead to my above statement. Arrival at Aorere I walked…
Mā te titiro!
Mā te titiro, ka kite; Mā te kite, ka rongo; Mā te rongo, ka mōhio; Mā te mōhio, ka mārama; Mā te mārama, ka matau; Mā te matau, ka ora! Adaptation of this whakataukī by Ruiha Epiha Away School Visits The observations I have made so far have really impacted my practise as a beginner…
Communicative Language Strategies
It has been just over a week since I changed my pedagogy and resource. The scaffolded resource I have been using for the lower-level learners of te reo Māori in my classes have been working for most of my ākonga. The pedagogy change to task-based teaching and learning has positively impacted the learning for my…
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