Transcript Ka Hikitia - Postgate School

Ka Hikitia
 What?
 Teaching practice idea: Maori students, whanau and
educators sharing knowledge and expertise with each
other to produce better mutual outcomes.
 Why?
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To improve whanau – school partnerships
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To demonstrate that education is worthwhile, relevant
and connected to student life goals and contexts.
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To develop our students as life long learners.
First Steps
 Awareness of diverse cultural backgrounds
 Identified parents with early developed expertise that
became a life long passion and vocation.
What we did
 Worked with and learned from these successful parents
What Came Out of This
 An understanding of differences
 Huge pride
 Emotional impact of Wiremu’s mihi
 Increased communication with parents
 A class focus on Matariki
 Each student created 3 diverse pieces of art
 Lead to work in other curriculum areas
 Opportunities to draw from their own cultural
backgrounds
Where to Next?
 Parent support for Maori Technology using Flax
 Parent support for Te Reo learning
 Continuing written sharing of what we are doing
 Further communication around parent support for
children’s learning