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…
Category: Paerewa 5
Standard 5: Design for learning
Design learning based on curriculum and pedagogical knowledge, assessment
information and an understanding of each learner’s strengths, interests, needs,
identities, languages and cultures.
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…
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…
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…
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…
He Puna Rautaki e Kore e Mimiti
Ako Panuku Workshop | Friday 20 May 2022 Click here for a more detailed description of the workshop. I went to a one-day workshop in Hamilton, which was run by Rauhina Cooper at the University of Waikato. There was a lot to take in today. Rauhina covered an array of second language teaching strategies for teaching grammar…
How much scaffolding is too much?
Scaffolding plays such an important part in creating independent (mana motuhake) ākonga, which is something I am constantly striving for. Last year, I heavily scaffolded my senior students to be able to complete their internal assessments using workbooks. Although my ākonga did well using these workbooks, I discovered that most of them found it difficult…
Te Reo Matatini
Accord Teacher Only Day | Monday 16 May 2022 As a Co-joined Department (Māori and English) we discussed the following…. Upcoming Changes to NCEA and Literacy Questions explored: What are the changes to NCEA? What are the changes to literacy? What are the big ideas in the literacy learning matrix? What do they entail? What are…
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 Kōpaki a Ruiha Epiha 