Māori Education
Māori in a Mainstream Setting: Te Reo Māori in Mainstream; Māori in Mainstream Te Tere Auraki ; Te Kauhua Phase 2; Te Kotahitanga | Te Mana | Te Hiringa i te Mahara
Māori in a Māori Medium Setting: Māori Medium Advisers | Ngā Toi | Tikanga-ā-iwi | Whakapiki i te Reo | Ngā Taumatua
Māori in a Mainstream Setting
Te Reo Māori in Mainstream
The Ministry of Education has allocated funding to employ School Support Services advisers competent in te reo Māori to help teachers use the curriculum and the associated materials in ways that improve student learning of te reo Māori in mainstream classes. The particular focus of work in this area is for teachers of years 7–10 students. For further information, please contact your nearest School Support Services provider.
More information can be obtained from Te Reo Māori in Mainstream community page.
Māori in Mainstream Te Tere Auraki Professional Development Strategy
For details about the Māori in Mainstream Professional Development Strategy see:
- Māori in Mainstream – Te Tere Auraki
- Ministry of Education Māori in Mainstream – Professional Development Strategy
Here are summaries of the four strands of the work that are part of the strategy.
Te Kauhua Phase 2
In partnership with their Māori community, schools are able to explore, trial, and develop innovative models of professional development that enable teachers to improve outcomes for Māori students in mainstream schools. The professional development is facilitated, managed, and evaluated in schools, for and by teachers.
The co-directors of the project are Cathie Bull, and Ruth Gorinski. The schools currently involved are: Cobden Primary, Awatapu College, Devon Intermediate, Selwyn Primary, Kaipara College, and Henderson Intermediate.
Common themes of Te Kauhua Phase 2 include:
- socio-cultural activities
- whānau engagement
- developing professional learning communities
- action research.
Te Kotahitanga
The Te Kotahitanga research project investigates how years 9–10 Māori student achievement in mainstream schools can be improved. On the basis of suggestions made by Māori students (as well as parents, teachers, principals, and international literature), the Waikato University research team has developed an Effective Teaching Profile. The Effective Teaching Profile forms the basis of the professional development intervention and has been implemented in schools.
Te Kotahitanga has a facilitation team consisting of an in-school facilitator and external facilitators such as a Resource Teacher Learning Behaviour and an adviser. The professional development is monitored by the research team from Waikato University led by Russell Bishop, who also train groups of teachers in the schools and the facilitation team.
Schools currently involved are: Whakatane High School, Western Heights High School, Rotorua Girls' High School, Te Awamutu College, Paeroa College, Mt Maunganui College, James Cook High School, Waitakere College, Massey High School, Bay of Islands College, Okaihau College, and Kerikeri High School.
The next stage of Te Kotahitanga involves supporting existing schools to embed and expand the programme during the next two years.
Te Mana
Information about this initiative can be accessed at Māori in Mainstream
– Te Tere Auraki, Te Mana
Te Mana Kōrero video series
The Te Mana Kōrero video series has been developed to help teachers focus on quality teaching practices that can better engage Māori students in learning and improve academic and social outcomes.
Te Mana Kōrero Video 1
Key messages in this video are communicated through the use of the modelling success strategy that underpins Te Mana – what does successful teaching of Māori students look like?
The key messages are:
- a strong belief in high expectations – Māori students do and can achieve.
- you make the difference – and these are some of the ways (using evidence-based pedagogy).
Te Mana Kōrero Video 2 – Strengthening Professional Practice
This video expands on the key messages used in the first video and strengthens the message that professional development can make a significant contribution to enhancing teacher capability to make a difference for Māori students.
Some of the key features of successful professional development are:
- emphasising the importance of teachers and other school staff
- engaging students meaningfully in the learning process and sharing the responsibility for setting learning goals
- forming positive and mutually respectful relationships with students
- undertaking focused and sustained professional development within a collaborative and reflective learning community
- making teaching and learning decisions based on data from a wide range of sources
- using student's prior knowledge and local community expertise within the delivery of the curriculum and the learning process
- developing close relationships with whānau to support learning
- using ICT innovatively to promote learning.
In production
A third Te Mana Kōrero DVD is currently being developed which has a focus on:
- whānau involvement in decisions made about teaching and learning
- curriculum integration of Māori perspectives.
The School Support Services advisers and facilitators have been trained to deliver to schools as part of their core work.
Te Hiringa i te Mahara
Te Hiringa i te Mahara (the power of the mind) is a national professional development programme that targets Māori secondary school teachers with particular emphasis on te reo Māori teachers.
Te Hiringa i te Mahara aims to assist in:
- reducing the workload related pressures of Māori secondary teachers in particular te reo Māori teachers
- achieving a positive change in the way Māori secondary teachers view themselves
- building the professional capability of Māori secondary teachers
- achieving better teacher practice outcomes.
For more information, see Te Hiringa i te Mahara (the power of the mind).
Māori in a Māori Medium Setting
Māori Medium Advisers
These advisers provide support for teachers working in Māori Medium Levels 1 and 2 immersion settings. Advisers can support individual teachers, groups and schools with their goals to improve levels of student achievement. For further information, please contact your nearest School Support Services provider.
Ngā Toi
The national facilitators Ngā Toi will be contacting teachers in immersion programmes to offer further professional development for Ngā Toi in 2006. The professional development aims to increase teacher proficiency in te reo, and to develop teacher knowledge and skills in the teaching and learning of Ngā Toi.
For further details contact The National Coordinator Ngā Toi, Rawiri Hindle at Victoria University of Wellington College of Education, Rawiri.Hindle@vuw.ac.nz, phone 04 463 9584.
Tikanga-ā-iwi
The lead teachers Tikanga-ā-iwi will be working with teachers in immersion programmes to offer further professional development for Tikanga-ā-iwi in 2006. The professional development aims to increase teacher proficiency in te reo, and to develop teacher knowledge and skills in the teaching and learning of Tikanga-ā-iwi.
For further details contact Jennifer Rutene or Jo Paku, at Learning Media Ltd jo@learningmedia.co.nz.
Whakapiki i te Reo
Whakapiki i te Reo is a professional development programme for teachers in Māori medium settings (including immersion or bi-lingual units in mainstream). The professional development aims to increase teachers' proficiency of te reo and knowledge in:
- teaching and learning languages
- subject knowledge and Marautanga
- pedagogy and assessment practices
- rauemi Māori.
The professional development is offered by five providers, 2006-2008, as listed below. Negotiations are being held with one other potential provider for 2007 and 2008. Contact details for this provider will be provided once negotiations are completed.
Programmes may be 10 or 20 weeks in duration in an immersion setting. One programme requires a full year commitment. For further details regarding programmes and to apply, please contact:
- University of Waikato
Hine Kahukura Te Kanawa, mtekanaw@waikato.ac.nz - Auckland College of Education
Ana Pipi, a.pipi@ace.ac.nz - Tihi Limited
Deanne Thomas, deanne@tihi.co.nz - Christchurch College of Education
Megan Ellison, Megan.Ellison@cce.ac.nz - Kia Ata Mai Educational Trust
Cath Rau, cath@kiaatamai.org.nz.
Ngā Taumatua
Ngā Taumatua is Māori-medium literacy training for immersion level 1 and level 2 classroom teachers of years 1–8 and Resource Teachers of Māori. The training is aimed at raising student achievement through developing effective teaching. The programme is provided by Kia Ata Mai Educational Trust in association with the University of Waikato. For further information please contact Cath Rau, Kia Ata Mai Educational Trust, phone 07 824 5556 or email cath@kiaatamai.org.nz.