Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Taloha ni, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Bula Vinaka and welcome to the Pasifika Education Community News page. We value your feedback and ideas, and invite you to contact us at pasifika@tki.org.nz
This page keeps you up-to-date with information and resources relevant to the teaching and learning of Pasifika education.
Use the buttons on the right-hand side of the page and the quick search facility to access Pasifika education resources. News on this page includes recent material on TKI, a facilitator’s selection, a list of events, and community notices. Scroll down or use the above four links to the sub-headings.
We welcome your contribution to the ongoing success of this community through
your contact with TKI
Community Facilitator.
Select the Pasifika Calendar link on the right hand side of this page to view Pasifika events. Events are updated regularly. If you have an event you would like included email us.
Note also the three curriculum items immediately below and check these regularly for updates.
The New Zealand Curriculum
Explore The New Zealand Curriculum online and the related resources and support materials. This revised curriculum will become mandatory from February 2010. Keep an eye on What’s new? and see what is happening in schools. http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz
LEAP
LEAP (Language Enhancing the Achievement of Pasifika) is a professional learning resource developed for NZ teachers at all school levels who work with bilingual Pasifika students in English medium classes. It may also be useful to teachers of bilingual classes who use a Pasifika language as the medium of instruction. http://leap.tki.org.nz/
Learn Niue
Explore the beautiful island of Niue and enrich your classroom programme. This interactive website can be used to increase your knowledge of another Pasifika culture by supporting you to learn and teach vagahau Niue. http://www.learnniue.co.nz/learnniueanlanguage/
07-01-2009
Tau Gagana Tokelau
Take advantage of this valuable resource for everyone – children and teachers who want to speak the Tokelauan language and learn about the Tokelauan culture. There are language resources including interactive conversations to help you increase your knowledge of Tau Gagana Tokelau. http://www.learntokelau.co.nz/
07-01-2009
Tuatua Mai! – Learn Cook Islands Māori
Learn another Pasifika language to greet your friends in. This website offers an exciting array of ways to learn Cook Islands Māori and Cook Islands culture. You can learn by, listening, speaking, viewing pictures and videos, and reading about the Cook Islands. http://www.tuatuamai.co.nz/
07-01-2009
Samoa in the New Zealand Curriculum: Draft Curriculum Guidelines
These draft curriculum guidelines have been developed to assist and support early childhood centres, schools, and teachers in planning and delivering Sāmoa language programmes. To help us finalise the guidelines, we need your feedback.
Please take some time to answer the following questions and send your response to the following address: Sāmoan Submission, F. Tolo, Ministry of Education, PO Box 1666, Wellington
Software for Learning
Enhance your learning environment with software that is appropriate and has been recommended by other New Zealand teachers. Browse through the brand new, very friendly Software for Learning collection, and check out all the new software and related resources there now. Software includes social software, freeware and non-freeware. http://softwareforlearning.tki.org.nz/
26-11-2008
LEAP: Language Enhancing the Achievement of Pasifika
Make use of this professional learning resource developed for teachers across the curriculum at all levels who work with bilingual Pasifika students in mainstream classrooms. The site includes research-based material for supporting language development, information on being bilingual, and a section about what helps students to learn. http://leap.tki.org.nz/
07-11-2008
VAGAHAU NIUE in the New Zealand Curriculum PDF (714KB)
Vagahau Niue in the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) has been developed to support the teaching and learning of vagahau Niue in New Zealand Schools. Vagahau Niue in the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) will be included in the range of languages offered in schools and provides support for students who wish to learn vagahau Niue as an additional language. The curriculum guidelines give very practical and workable ideas, frameworks, exercises and planning tools for teachers. http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/pasifika/pdf/vagahau-niue.pdf
30-10-2008
ASB 2008 Polyfest
Check out the Auckland 2008 Polyfest which is the largest Māori and Pacific Island cultural festival in the world. This TV2 coverage features performances from the five main stages, and includes traditional music, dance, costume, and speeches from Māori, Niue, Tonga, Cook Islands, and Sāmoa. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/1077418
Events are now listed on the TKI Pasifika calendar, see right-hand navigation bar.
Pasifika Education Community Radio programs
See a list of the Ministry’s community radio programmes, which includes key contacts for each programme. Currently all radio shows are hosted by members of the Ministry’s Pasifika Advisory Group or local Pasifika Reference groups. This gives them the opportunity to report back to their communities as well as to gather education issues.
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Supporting Pasifika languages
In 2004, Cook Islands Māori in the New Zealand Curriculum joined Sāmoan in the New Zealand Curriculum. Both curricula encourage, provide, and support learning opportunities for the teaching and learning of the Sāmoan and Cook Islands Māori languages and culture.
This year Vagahau Niue in the New Zealand Curriculum and Tongan in the New Zealand Curriculum were launched in Auckland. Tongan in the New Zealand Curriculum is available for downloading from this site as a PDF file. The PDF for Vagahau Niue in the New Zealand Curriculum will be available shortly.
Tokelauan in the New Zealand Curriculum is in its final editing stage and will be completed at the beginning of 2008.
Multimedia materials that support the teaching of Pasifika languages are being developed. The writing phase for Cook Islands Māori began mid 2006 and Sāmoan mid 2007. The writing phase for materials for the Tongan and Niuean curricula will start at the end of 2007. These materials will follow the same format as the current Learning Languages series. This series is an effective teaching and learning tool for both students and teachers.
Telephone Tutorial
The TKI Team would be happy to provide a tour of the website, via the telephone, at your school staff meetings or planning sessions. Contact us at tutorials@tki.org.nzif you would like to explore this option.
