July 08, 2016
Hilda Halkyard Harawira on Te Wahanga Parakuihi with Dale Husband
Hilda Halkyard Harawira on Te Wahanga Parakuihi with Dale Husband
Ahakoa ko tēnei Te Wiki Reo Māori, ka wēpu tonu te Tāhūhū Mātauranga i ngā kura kaupapa o Tai Tokerau e pā ana ki te Pūtea COL.
I tuku tono mātou i tēra tau kia noho kōtahi ai ngā kura kaupapa Māori e 9 hei Hāpori Ako. He aha ai, i te mea, he mahi mokemoke te whakarauora te reo i waenga i ngā kura aunoa. He pai kia huihui mātou ngā kaiako, ngā tumuaki hei whai haere i ngā māhere rautaki whakapakari i a mātou me a tātou tamariki mokopuna. Mā ēnei hui kia pakari ngā reo katoa o Ngāti Whātua, o Ngāpuhi o Muriwhenua hoki.
He maha miriona taara hei tautoko i ngā kaupapa ako i roto i ngā kura. Ko te whakautu a waha o Te Tāhūhū, me honō mātou ki ngā Hāpori Aunoa. Ki te kore, ka ngaro putea ki a mātou mō te mahi whakangūngū.
Despite an open invitation from Ministry of Education last year for all school communities to submit applications of funding for Communities of Learning (COLs), the application by Ngā Kura Kaupapa of Tai Tokerau has been ignored. The 9 kura kaupapa Māori from Oruawhāro to Kaitaia are being bullied into joining local COLs. We are told, unless you join a local COL , you will miss out on professional development opportunities and funding in 2017. No pressure.
Kura Kaupapa Maori o Tai Tokerau have high academic achievement success results in NCEA. One of the verbal responses we have received is that we are "geographically challenged. " This is not substantive in these days with modern day technology.
We are not trying to distance ourselves from our other teaching colleagues- we will continue to work and share innovative ideas with each other. However , we are being asked to tag on to a model which doesn't quite fit us.
Only 1000 tamariki , or 3% of the Tai Tokerau school population attend kura kaupapa, however, we have 90% responsibility for revitalising te reo and our local mita in our communities. The whānau who have chosen Te Aho Matua model of learning have taken an active stance to provide reo Māori education for their children an opportunity perhaps they did not have in their youth.
KKM principals and kaiako have the unique task of teaching most of our curriculum in Te Reo Māori. Teacher workload in kura kaupapa is very high as we also have to craft 90% of our lessons and authentic assessments. We are passionate about designing lessons relevant to the local Iwi, hapu
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