Te Kaupapa o Te Aho Tapu
‘Rangaranga i Te Aho Tapu Kia Hua Mai Te Rangatiratanga’
The weaving of a korowai provides the metaphor that describes our approach to supporting and retaining beginning Māori medium teachers through to full teacher certification and beyond. In this model Pia and LAT’s, framed as ‘apprentice weavers’, benefit from the tutelage of more experienced and ‘expert weavers’, Pou Tautoko (in-school mentors) and Pou Kōkiri (facilitators), while drawing on and contributing to the skills of the wider weaving or teaching community.
Ngā Pou Aronga
The key principles of our professional learning and mentoring model aim to develop:
a tailored programme of support and guidance consistent with Tikanga Māori, values and philosophies;
a focus on raising capabilities of Pia, LAT’s and Pou Tautoko to develop effective teaching and learning for diverse learners within Māori medium settings; and
effective educative mentoring for sustained professional learning and development (PLD) for Pia, LAT’s, Pou Tautoko and Kaiako in the wider kura community.
The four pou of Te Aho Tapu are expanded upon below.
Āta Ārahi
He kaupapa a ‘Rangaranga i Te Aho Tapu’ ki te hāpai i ngā Pia, i ngā kaiāwhina e whakaako ana, i ngā Pou Tautoko me ngā Kaiako kei ngā kura, kei ngā rūmaki e whakaako ana. Ko te whāinga matua o tēnei hōtaka ko te āta tautoko i a rātou kia eke ki ngā taumata e wawatatia ana. Ko ngā mātāpono me ngā āhuatanga o tātou te iwi Māori ērā e kākahutia ana, e manaakitia ana tātou i roto i ngā mahi.
Whakangungu
I a te Pia me tōna Pou Kōkiri e whakamahere ana i te ara ako ā te Pia, ka toko ake ko ngā momo wāhanga hei ako māna, nō reira ka taea e te Pou Kōkiri te whakangungua te Pia, te ārahi rānei i a ia ki tētahi, rānei ki ētahi whakangungu.
Ka whai wāhi ā tātou Pia ki te hono mai ki ngā whakangungu ka whakaritea e Te Aho Tapu, i raro i te hōtaka Whiria te Muka Tangata. Ko ngā kaupapa ka whārikihia ki ēnei whakangungu ka hāngai pū ki ngā āhuatanga katoa o ngā momo marau, pēnei i Te Reo Matatini me te Pāngarau, ngā aromatawai me tētahi tino wāhanga ka whakamatua e Te Aho Tapu ko ngā kaupapa whakahiki wairua o te Pia.
Wānanga
Ko te hui tuatahi ki tō Pou Kōkiri, he hui ā kanohi ki te kanohi, ki tō kura, ki reira, whakatau ai ngā whāinga whānui me ngā whāinga whāiti hei whakatutukitanga mā kōrua, he whakatau i ngā rā me ngā wā o ngā hui o ia wāhanga me ngā aronga mō ia hui. Ka whakatau hoki mēnā he hui ā kanohi, ā huiata, ā huitopa rānei.
Hauora
Ko te whare hauora o te tangata tētahi kaupapa motuhake o Te Aho Tapu. Kia pakari tō tū hei kaiako, me pakari hoki ngā taha e whā o tō whare. Heoi, ko tētahi āhuatanga motuhake o te kaupapa nei, ka whai wāhi ai koutou ngā kaiako ki te whātoro atu ki ngā ringa āwhina o Te Aho Tapu, kia tau mai te māramatanga ki runga i a koe, kia tū kaha ai, kia tū pakari ai te katoa o tō whare.