4MWT TERM 2 2017

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25/05/17 - 4MWT TERM 2 2017

Self reflection

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What is happening and why?
- Māori cultural teaching/learning during CRT day for junior teachers. Great to see in depth teaching of skills.
- Each teacher in a separate space with a group of approx. 20 children. Each activity was quite noisy so separate spaces are useful!
- All focusing on a different aspect of Māori culture (rakau, weaving, poi)
What is not happening and why?
- Is Māori also integrated by classroom teachers throughout the week?
- Small groups with a teacher, not sure about the amount of collaboration amongst teachers and children at this time?
What am I going to do to influence what is not happening and why?
We teach Te Reo Māori during Kapahaka time at the moment. Can we expand this into Māori culture e.g. rakau?? How would this work with the number of children we have? I think this would be a great authentic way to teach language, tikanga and culture through an interactive lesson.
As the lead teacher for Māori could I support these teachers with more activities to broaden their lessons. I spoke to Noelene during the walk through who would be keen for this. My challenge is how to do this effectively when release teachers/reliever teachers take these lessons and are not at school for conversations very often. Perhaps if I knew when she was next in or planning to teach this I could ask some of our Kapahaka 'leaders' to teach the junior children. I need to talk to Pene/Dy about setting up a Tuakana-Teina time for this to happen perhaps??

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