School anti-racism programme extended
Te Hurihanganui was launched in Porirua in November, and it is being gradually piloted around the country.
Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says it’s built on an earlier programme looking at what was happening to tauira Māori in the classroom, Te Kotahitanga, which was scrapped by National.
It’s been expanded to involve the whole community in what is happening at schools. So make sure the practices within schools that teachers use, the unconscious bias as we call it, are addressed, that the curriculum meets the needs of our Māori students, that whānau are supported and they are able to have a say, but each community will really develop it to meet their own particular needs, Mr Davis says.
Pūhoro director Naomi Manu said it was a significant commitment. “I’m just so pleased that we’ve been able to do something at Massey that the associate minister of education is seeing so much value in and wanted to provide resources for us to be able to expand and enable more rangatahi (youth), it’s multiplying success.” She said it would allow the programme to expand to two regions per year, reaching 40 schools next year and up to 70 after the third year. She said the programme s growth was exciting.
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Pūhoro director Naomi Manu is thrilled the academy has received $3m of Government funding for the next three years.
Tauranga Moana iwi setting new benchmark with te ao Māori curriculum collaboration
15 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM
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Ken Ward, Reg Blake, Henk Popping, Vianney Douglas, Toni Heke-Ririnui and Arohanoa Mathews are part of the Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana Kaitiaki Group. Photo / Supplied
Ken Ward, Reg Blake, Henk Popping, Vianney Douglas, Toni Heke-Ririnui and Arohanoa Mathews are part of the Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana Kaitiaki Group. Photo / Supplied
Plans for a local te ao Māori curriculum have been hailed as setting a new benchmark . Tauranga Moana iwi are developing a localised te ao Māori curriculum for Tauranga schools, early childhood education centres and
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It says this year s rewrite of the New Zealand history curriculum will be followed by English, maths and science next year.
The changes will make clearer what children need to know in each subject.
The changes also seek to balance learning that is important nationally with what is relevant locally and to prioritise professional learning and development. I know parents, teachers and whānau want more certainty about what tamariki need to learn in schools and kura - their progress, strengths and where support is needed - through a curriculum that focuses on wellbeing, identities, language and culture, Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti said in a statement.