Practice Context/Applying Te Reo and Tikaka in practice/Implications for your teaching practice

The previous modules have introduced you to some of the expectations of the Tertiary Education Strategy, and the resource Tataiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. You have also explored the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

With these in mind it is useful to reflect on how you incorporate your current knowledge of Te Reo Māori and tikaka to make a difference to the relationships you as an educator establish with learners.
 * Do you use Māori greetings or acknowledgements?
 * Do you acknowledge tikaka such as separate spaces for food and work?
 * Do you acknowledge appropriateness or not of sitting on tables?
 * Do you encourage whanau to be included in learning?

Useful starting resources

Seek courses within your own tertiary institution for local knowledge.

100 Māori words every New Zealander should know

Kōrero Māori

Te Kete Tikanga Māori - Māori Cultural Kit

Tikanga Maori Values

Website of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu

For those who would like further reading

Huakina mai: Doorways toward culturally responsive education is a research paper looking at a tertiary summer school course and exploring how 4 principles could be used to sustain a learning environment that values diversity. It includes questions designed  “to stimulate reflective analysis of teaching practices, attitudes, and critical awareness of how actions and intentions may be perceived by others”.