April 15, 2020
Home schooling chance for Maori education boost
Seven hundred and fifty thousand young people are today coming to grips with studying at home.
Principal’s Federation immediate past president Whetu Cormick says teachers at more than 2000 schools have spent the holidays learning to use tools like Zoom, Google Hangout and Microsoft Meeting for distance learning.
They have also been telling the Ministry of Education which children need laptops, Chromebooks or modems, and they will be delivered over the coming weeks, along with hard packs of background material for NCEA.
He says some teachers see it as a chance for the reset that Māori education needs.
“This is an opportunity at home for whānau to be supporting their babies in their learning and maybe many of our tamariki might actually enjoy being away from kura for a while and learning at their own pace and learning on activities that their whānau believes will be important for them so it is going to be very interesting to see this,” Mr Cormick says.
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