Tātai Aho Rau Core Education

Ruta McKenzie and Matalena Tuiloma explore the use of alagaupu | proverbs to use in any work environment. Alagaupu are verbal treasures used to to make a point or statement to align with the wisdom of ancestors, this helps to make sense of matters of importance within their current cultural context. Celebrate the Samoan Language with the team at Tātai Aho Rau Core Education.

Learn Gagana Samoa with Ruta Mckenzie and Matalena Tuiloma - practice welcomes, farewells, and words of encouragement. Use these small phrases in your classroom or every day to celebrate the Samoan language.

Honour and celebrate Gagana Samoa week | Samoan Language week with Tātai Aho Rau Core education facilitators Ruta Mckenzie, Matalena Tuiloma and Tutuila Lio Va’auli.

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Have you considered the importance of learning te reo Maori and how you can use it more in your day to day life? In this podcast Tātai Aho Rau course facilitator Carmen Aldridge has a kōrero with Wendy McLachlan, a recent participant of one of Tātai Aho Rau's Māori language learning courses. Wendy is an ECE manager and understands that it is important for her use te reo Māori proficiently in her w...

Teacher aides play a vital role towards providing an equitable learning environment for ākonga. Professional development lifts their skill level and mana. It also empowers them to face the daily challenges of their role. Amy-Lee Budd and Alice Frame kōrero about the significant role of teacher aides and how they support kaiako to provide ākonga with what they need to engage with, and succeed in, e...

Join author and publisher of A New Dawn, Emeli Sione and Dahlia Malaeulu, as they talanoa about the power of Pasifika storytelling and how it can help us to navigate inequities in the classroom and beyond.

Katrina Laurie, accredited facilitator and product manager of uLearn, discusses how uLearn is all about raising the flag around multiple issues of inequities in education and acts as a catalyst for educational change - and how uLearn 2023 is no different. What is unique about uLearn 2023 is the theme - Stand together, like kahikatea. This theme’ challenges us to collaborate as delegates and collea...

Te Tiwha and Pam have developed their working relationship founded on what it means to be Tiriti partners in education. They have come to understand that, more often than not, this means “navigating between the spaces”. They share experiences which feature the challenges of collective responsibility for the benefit of learners and whānau in Whanganui. Their insights are a work in progress to harne...

Dr Keri Milne-Ihimaera- Ngāi Tahu, has over 16 years’ experience in roles as a principal, General Manager, and Executive Director where she provides a Māori woman's perspective in the areas of education, leadership, people and strategy.

The following questions from schools are answered by a water expert: 1. Could the storage ponds fill up with sediment from the Waimakariri River, especially after a flood? 2. When did irrigation start becoming popular? 3. How reliable is the electronics that control irrigators. Are there many maintenance issues? 4. Does Canterbury farming produce anything, that relies on irrigation, that is grown...

The following questions from schools are answered by a water expert: 1. What does water have to do with our Turangawaewae? 2. How is water made? 3. Why do some countries have more water than others? 4. Why do we depend on water? Why do we need it? 5. How does water become salty? 6. How long can we live without water? 7. How much water do farmers need to use? 8. How can we locate groundwater? 9. Ca...

The following questions from schools are answered by water experts: 1. What are the reasons for our waterways being polluted and how is this being fixed? 2. How big of a problem are poisonous algae and is it possible to get rid of them altogether? 3. Is there a way to turn sea water into fresh water and make it usable for farming? 4. What happens to all our waste water, do we reuse it? 5. How much...

Hollie Smith shares her Te reo Māori journey through her own experiences and performs some of her iconic waiata.

The opening keynote of uLearn 2022 by Valerie Hannon was a pertinent summary of the challenges for 21st century education and the changes it needs. Hannon embraced familiar ideas about the age of hyper change and disruption; change is occurring faster, and penetrating more aspects of society than ever before. There is no longer steady incremental progress, so we have to change our skills as educat...

The following questions are answered by volcano eperts: 1. Shane, tell us a bit more about your work with regarding resilience to a possible Taranaki eruption. 2. Nathan, Lena, Shane, what are some special moments in your jobs studying volcanoes that really stand out? 3. What would be the impact on us in coastal Taranaki (Okato) of a Taranaki eruption? 4. In an eruption, would all the bridges be d...

The following questions from schools are answered by a scientist: 1. What weather do you find most interesting to learn about and study? 2. Where in NZ does the most severe weather occur? 3. What do you do when you go to a civil defence centre - what are the next steps once you arrive? 4. Can you tell us more about how hail is formed? How a tornado is formed? 5. What are the ongoing effects of a l...

The following questions from schools are answered by a scientist: 1. Tornadoes are not common in New Zealand. Why is that? 2. Does Antarctica influence weather events in New Zealand? 3. We measure rain daily? How do you measure rain and hail? 4. How dangerous is it for children to be out in rain and thunder? Max 5. What mindset helps you cope best to survive in a disaster? 6. Our recent floods wer...

Listen to a recording of the live Q&A session from the LEARNZ online field trip "Hīkoi for hauora: making connections in the Haakarimata Ranges". The following questions are answered: 1. What is the best walk each of you have ever been on and what made it so memorable? 2. Why is it important to get out and connect with nature? Can it improve my hauora/wellbeing? 3. Is it important to know about th...

Listen to a recording of the second of two live Q&A sessions from the LEARNZ online field trip "Saving our southern species: Wildlife Hospital Dunedin". The following questions from schools are answered: 1. Why did you start up the hospital and who did you start it up with? 2. What is the strangest animal you have taken care of and why? 3. What animal did you have to do the biggest operation/rehab...

Listen to a recording of the first of two live Q&A sessions from the LEARNZ online field trip "Saving our southern species: Wildlife Hospital Dunedin". The following questions from schools are answered: 1. What is the most common sickness or problem that you see at the wildlife hospital? 2. What is the most endangered species you have treated at the hospital? 3. What made you start caring about th...

“With so many changes happening in so many places in the system at the same time, it’s easy to understand why many teachers are feeling a bit overwhelmed by the idea of tackling a curriculum refresh.” Amy-Lee Budd writes why you should invest your time and effort into another curriculum change from a perspective of providing equitable outcomes for all. This podcast is an audio-adapted version of A...

Adrian Hipa, Senior Advisor Ministry for Pacific Peoples, and Tutuila Lio Va'auli talanoa on the importance of Aotearoa New Zealand Histories and Pasifika History being taught in schools for Aotearoa New Zealand born students of Niuean descent.

"... it's really important to invite students to develop their Treaty-based framework. It opens up the space and I've never seen the students become so passionate about reclaiming who they are. As Pasifika here in Aotearoa, New Zealand." Dr Aulola Lino, Academic Program Manager for Social Practice at Unitec, shares a kōrero with Tutuila Lio Va'auli on the importance of Aotearoa New Zealand Histori...