Learning opportunities
Exploring Te Ao Kori focuses on learning that develops students' social, personal, and interpersonal skills; creative, artistic, and physical skills and abilities; and knowledge and understanding of the significance of cultural practices.
To develop social, personal, and interpersonal skills, students need to:
- identify how attitudes and values are linked to self-worth and personal identity
- appreciate their uniqueness and their relationship to community and environment
- learn cooperative and communicative skills
- develop confidence in and through physical and artistic expression
- influence their own and others' hauora (well-being)
- develop care and concern for others by respecting others and fostering inclusiveness
- be both teacher and learner
- develop an appreciation of their own skills and understanding
- engage in collaborative activities.
To develop their creative, artistic, and physical skills and abilities, students need to:
- learn and create movements based on experiences, beliefs, ideas, and feelings
- explore a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, using the elements of body awareness, space, time, energy, and relationships
- create movements and dance sequences that are inspired by te ao kori
- perform Māori movements and dance in informal and/or formal settings
- practise responding to, reflecting on, and analysing movement and dance in their many forms, including customary and contemporary Māori dance
- explore and respond to the elements and expressive qualities of music through such activities as listening, moving, singing, and playing
- sing individually and in groups, using appropriate techniques and performance practices
- learn to use appropriate construction methods and natural materials, in response to customary Māori objects and images
- create objects that relate to those found in customary Māori society.
To gain knowledge and understanding of the significance of cultural practices, students need to:
- identify links between body, mind, and spirit in the Māori context
- derive and use ideas through imagination, feelings, and personal experiences
- explore the origins of movement, language, dance, drama, music, and the visual arts within te ao kori
- identify the impact of the environment and other cultures on te ao kori
- identify and understand how te ao kori can enhance sensory education
- understand tikanga (see Tikanga guidelines), both contemporary and traditional
- learn through play
- engage their imagination
- learn through physical, creative, and artistic problem solving
- apply a range of movements and dance skills to Māori music
- develop knowledge and understanding of how Māori movements and dance are communicated and interpreted in different community settings
- develop knowledge, skills, and understanding of how Māori vocal and instrumental music is communicated and interpreted in different community settings
- develop an understanding of toi puoro (music) and the cultural protocols of musical performance
- learn how cultural objects are made and what ideas they convey
- learn about the purpose and significance of cultural objects to the people who made and used them.