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…
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Collaborative and respectful relationships and professional behaviours:
Establishes and maintains collaborative and
respectful relationships and professional
behaviours that enhance learning and
wellbeing for Pacific learners.
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…
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…
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,…
Haramai tētahi toki!
Otāhuhu College Observation | Wednesday 16 June 2021 The title is an adaptation of the phrase ‘Haramai te toki,’ which is part of a longer phrase that normally wraps up a traditional karakia (incantation or prayer) to signal group agreeance and unity. I have adapted this phrase to reference the northern idiom of ‘Haramai tētahi…
Protected: In the presence of warriors
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Naming of Te Ahitū
Thur 17 Dec 2020 Why this experience impacted me: The experience impacted me because it just felt so right and because we were the first cohort to ever name ourselves. I had been burning to give our affiliate a new name since the Ako Mātātupu C19 graduation event. I just did not like C21. It…
A Story of Resilience
Mon 14 Dec 2020 Click here to read the story of Ihumātao, as told by Pania Newton. Why this experience impacted me: It was always my wawata (aspiration) to hear the story of Ihumātao from the people themselves. When I heard it was Pania who would take us through their kōrero, I couldn’t help but…
Te Kōpaki a Ruiha Epiha 