Wai Ako

Date: 31/8/17

Staff PD: Wai Ako - Learning Songs, PD with Roimata Smail

Everyone has trouble with pronunciation of Te Reo Maori - fear of getting it wrong is what holds a lot of people / teachers back.

Resource created to help teachers teach children and get words right.

You can’t learn Te Reo  just by learning individual words - red, white, dog etc.

Songs to teach different aspect of Te Reo.

Te Reo Maori Curriculum has 8 levels to be taught at Years 1-13.  Two levels to be taught at primary school.

Would need to learn about 6 songs a year to cover the curriculum over the course of primary school, which works out about 1 ½ songs a term.

To incorporate it into your classroom, try adding the Ata Marie song and using the greetings at roll time.

Website:  Waiako.com

Contains the songs, notes for teachers, links to MoE lesson plans, how to incorporate it into your classroom routine, how to review learning and peer assessment.

How can the whole school and community support the learning of Te Reo?  You may find there are people in the community who are able to support you in school.

CRP Cultural Resonsiveness

CRP presentation

Thinkings:

What an awesome day lots of great questions and really made me question my own practice

On the Surface Practice VS Real Cultural Responsiveness

I think we are all good at doing the things that are on the surface - saying the words and singing the songs. But there is so much more to consider and in considering this think about how our actions involve or push away our maori families. What it really left me thinking is:

Are there things that I could be doing in my classroom that fit well within Maori culture that would make a difference to ALL of my learners?

- Being respectful of where we have come from - our whakapapa. As a New Zealander this is really important to me but how can I include the whakapapa of the families in our classroom?

- The idea that the village raises the child. So how can I include my whanau more in the things that we do in class? How can I make sure everyone especially my Maori parents feel good about coming into class and being a part of our learning?

- How can I use Maori language in a way that it just becomes a part of what we do and how we talk? And does that result in better outcomes?