Longworth Education Conference: Encouraging the potential of our tauira

 Encouraging the potential of our tauira by Tammy Nepata-Gibbs 

Whare waanaga 

A book called Decolonising maori myths 

Thinking about classroom set up 

Our ways of doing things are the way we need to teach our children 

Multiple intelligences 

Children bringing their gifts to the classroom

Ariki as enablers 

Children were chosen to go to a specific whare 

Knowing what urges are in play 

Skills that we see in our children 

Build on the skills that they already show 

Seeing children of what the children can do 

Observe and build on the skills -appreciative view 

Pūwaiwaha of the classroom 

Multiple pūwaiwaha opportunities 

Think of open ended abilities throughout the curriculum areas 

The single answer to creating multiple ways 

What is my song? Dennis Linn 

Hangarau Technology for children in all aspects 

So many other ways to carry our knowledge, our arts to communicate 

Tukutuku

Moko

Tāmoko 

Kowhaiwhai 

Karakia 

Waiata 

Opportunities to use resources that they can use and manipulate 

Te reo Māori/Tikanga Māori 

Gift them language while they do what they love 

Feeding them the language 

Commenting on what they are doing 

Using te reo through play 

They have a place, purpose 

Teaching Tikanga through play 

Tiaki te mahunga. Look after the head. 

Corrections of Tikanga 

The purpose of knowledge is to pass it on 

You give knowledge and take knowledge 

Celebrating Matariki with whānau

This year, we have celebrated Matariki together with our whānau. We made pizza and had shared kai. Many whanau brought a lot of food for us to share. It was so wonderful to be able to see our whanau, talk to them about their children and enjoy this time where we shared love for each other. We have read the book called "Matariki Breakfast" and from that children have learnt about what people do for Matariki and it is to spend time with the people we love. 

I have asked parents to write down their aspirations for their children on a star shaped piece of paper. This allowed me to know what the parents thoughts and how they want their child to grow into the future. I also thought about including some of these into the report writing highlighting what types of dispositions they have developed over time. 

Parents' aspirations