Getting Schooled

A brief rundown of the great things happening at the National Library with the Services For Schools guru, Tracey Greenwood. A low key chat filtered with strategies to help capture the disengaged teen reader.

National Library Services to School website: https://natlib.govt.nz/schools

 

Key places for content that may help in understanding and promotion of Mātauranga Māori in classrooms:

• MoE youtube clips: insights into Kaupapa Māori (broken down into different concepts and principles)
• Great books: Niho Taniwha by Melanie Riwai-Couch, Ki te hoe! Education for Aotearoa edited by Pania Te Maro and Robin Averill,
• Common Practice Model (principles and pedagogies) has hyperlinks to research for deeper understanding: promoting heritage languages, dialogic teaching, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies
  • incorporating more dialogic teaching (rich extended dialogue) – CPM references Aaron Wilson and Jacinta Olderhaver’s research on ‘Talk about Text’ – changing patterns of discourse in low-decile secondary classrooms
• Mana ōrite mō te Mātauranga Māori - Equal status for mātauranga Māori in NCEA | NCEA (education.govt.nz)
  • Although framed around mātauranga Māori in terms of NCEA, this provides general guidance that can have wider application
• Maori History (tki.org.nz)
  • Although focused on ‘Māori history’  this guidance and supports (eg videos) can have wider application.
  • Of note:
    • Te Takanga o te Wā - Māori History Guidelines Year 1 - 8 | Maori History (tki.org.nz)
      • Note; this “Te Takanga o te Wā” is not to be confused with the “Te Takanga o te Wā” (Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum) for Te Marautanga o Aotearoa – same title, different things
    • Contexts | Maori History (tki.org.nz)
    • Videos | Maori History (tki.org.nz)
• Regionally-allocated PLD – Professional Learning & Development (education.govt.nz)
  • PLD priorities – Professional Learning & Development (education.govt.nz) for English medium education settings include:
    • cultural capability
    • local curriculum design

both of which relate to mātauranga Māori – so kaiako can request their school engages (if they haven’t already) in PLD in this space

• Leading local curriculum guide series / Strengthening local curriculum / Kia ora - NZ Curriculum Online (tki.org.nz)
  • Although aimed at school leadership – kaiako can use these to start conversations
  • Especially note: Leading Local Curriculum Guide – Aotearoa New Zealand's histories Part 1.pdf – (although and ANZHC focus, again can have wider application)
    • Productive partnerships with whānau, hapū, and iwi (pages 15–19) Find evidence-based strategies to help you build and strengthen partnerships with Māori communities. – although it must be stressed that relationships with hapū and iwi should be lead by school leadership, not individual kaiako. Relationships may also be brokered with MOE help.

What is Is This For Credits??

Join season 2 hosts and English teachers, Pere Durie and Luke McFarlane, as they discuss pūrākau from around the motu and explore how we can weave this into our classroom practice.

Season 2 of this NZATE podcast is engineered by Angad Vraich.