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.