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…
Category: Ngā Paerewa
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…
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….
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…
Task-Based Teaching & Learning
Today is the first day I have started using a different teaching approach (task-based teaching and learning) using a different resource. I used a resource pack that I had purchased from Jannie van Hees who is our English language specialist here at my school. Before using the pack, I sat in one of her ELL…
Triadic Wānanga
Today I engaged in a triadic kōrerorero and wānanga with my Tāmaki College and Ako Mātātupu (Teach First NZ) kaihāpai. Brenton Moyes, Nyra Marshall, and Dr. Jannie van Hees make up the three strong pillars of my whare ako. These three people are the pillars that have kept me from toppling over these past two…
A Lesson from the Stars
Click here for the Matariki celebrations at Tāmaki College. The stars have enabled our ancestors to traverse the largest expanse of ocean on the planet to arrive here in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Before the Gregorian calendar, the stars were our time-keeping system that guided our ancestors’ day-to-day, month-to-month, season-to-season, and year-to-year activities. When to plant,…
Te Manu Kai i te Miro
Ko te manu ka kai i te miro nōna te ngahereKo te manu ka kai i te mātauranga nōna te aoThe bird that eats from the miro tree owns the forestThe bird that eats from the tree of knowledge owns the world This whakataukī instructs us to not only eat the berries of the forest,…
Engaging in Lockdown
In his opening quote for his article entitled Literacy and Intrinsic Motivation, Csikszentmihalyi promulgates: “It seems increasingly clear that the chief impediment to learning are not cognitive in nature. It is not that students cannot learn; it is that they do not wish to learn” Csikszentmihalyi, 1990, p.115 What is the significant moment of learning?…
Te Kōpaki a Ruiha Epiha 