Mary's Professional Blog

  My Growth Cycle encompasses the question based on student needs and abilities to learn and develop the knowledge and skills necessary for their own personal, cultural and educational growth. It seeks to provide a wide range of learning strategies, experiences and expected outcomes.  The Big question: “How can I give students the knowledge and strategies that will enable them to engage confidently in simple and ongoing conversations in te reo?” I have too often observed students who lack the vocab and the sentence structures necessary to be able to engage in basic conversations in Te Reo Maori. There are many reasons why our students are in these positions. The following share a small window of some underlying issues that challenge the effectiveness of te reo programmes and resources being equitable for the learning and development of fluency in Mainstream medium schools for young Maori students.  Their first language is English Families are not confident reo speakers Te Reo is not sp