Kia ora koutou katoa Maori enjoying success as Maori Māori Potential Approach The cross-Government policy framework called the Māori Potential Approach was developed by Te Puni Kōkiri. Ka Hikitia – Managing for Success: The Māori Education Strategy 2008 - 2012 draws on the policy framework, giving it expression in an education context. The framework is a policy approach endorsed by the research evidence, independent academics, Māori and ministry staff. The Māori Potential Approach emphasises partnership, working together and sharing power. It is an approach that supports Māori self development and self determination and it represents a move away from deficit, failure, problems and risks. The Māori Potential Approach is about identifying success and building on it and seeing opportunities and realising potential. Māori Potential Approach in education Less focus on... More focus on... Remedying deficit Realising potential Problems of dysfunction Identifying opportunity Government intervention Investing in people and local solutions Targeting deficit Tailoring education to the learner Maori as a minority Indigeneity and distinctiveness Instructing and informing Collaborating and co-constructing The Māori Potential Approach takes a broad view of success and a broad view of the pathways to achieving success. It seeks to enable Māori to live as Māori within te Ao Māori, within New Zealand and within the wider world. It is an approach that fits well with and reflects other important shifts occurring across the education system where education success is viewed more broadly. In education, the approach means recognising the potential of every Māori student, acknowledging that being Māori is an advantage and understanding that all Māori learners are inherently capable. www.tetoitupu.org

What comes to mind when you think of ways in which your Maori students prefer to learn? Home The Ministry Policy and strategy Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success Strategy overview Strategy approach Ako Ka Hikitia – Managing for Success: The Māori Education Strategy 2008 - 2012 emphasises the importance of ako – effective and reciprocal teaching and learning – for, and with, Māori learners and the conditions that support it. Evidence shows that high-quality teaching is the most important influence the education system can have on high-quality outcomes for students with diverse learning needs. Evidence also shows that effective teaching and learning depends on the relationship between teachers and students and students’ active engagement. The concept of ‘ako’ describes a teaching and learning relationship where the educator is also learning from the student and where educators’ practices are informed by the latest research and are both deliberate and reflective. Ako is grounded in the principle of reciprocity and recognises that the learner and whānau cannot be separated. The key aspects of ako are:  Language, identity and culture counts – knowing where students come from and building on what students bring with them  Productive Partnerships – Māori students, whānau and educators sharing knowledge and expertise with each other to produce better outcomes. Taking a ‘personalising learning’ approach that puts every student and their achievement at the heart of education and recognises that one size does not fit all. Personalising learning is about partnerships focused on learning and about a whole education system where everyone sees themselves as having an important role to play and accepting the associated personal and professional responsibilities.

He kakano Sir Sidney outlines his aspirations for rangatahi… and non-Māori students as well. I think for Māori students what I would expect is that they are comfortable in their own society first. They are comfortable as Māori, they've got the.....they have prepared themselves well for it. They can speak the language, they know the culture, they can participate in activities on the marae without fear. And at the same time I want them to be also comfortable in mainstream society. They know the language. They know the culture, they can achieve in both areas. And they are happy to do so. And so for Māori students the task ahead of them might be a bit more difficult and a bit more demanding in that they have to master, you know two cultures, two ways of doing things, and be able to steer a path through the two streams as it were, and make that contribution to both sides, and to the nation as a whole. So for Pākehā students, non-Māori students I would expect the same. I would want them to be comfortable in mainstream society. I want them to be comfortable in Māori society as well as their own whatever that might be. So it's quite an ask.

Māori achieving success as Māori Te Ao Maori – Te Ao Whanui … ongoing effective engagement at secondary school, and strong school-community connections are key to Māori achieving educational success as Māori. … recognising the potential of every Māori student, acknowledging that being Māori is an advantage and understanding that all Māori learners are inherently capable.

Te Kotahitanga The Effective Teaching Profile Manaakitanga – teachers care for their students as culturally located human beings above all else. Mana motuhake – teachers care for the performance of their students. Nga whakapiringatanga – teachers are able to create a secure, well-managed learning environment. Wananga – teachers are able to engage in effective teaching interactions with Māori students as Māori. Ako – teachers can use strategies that promote effective teaching interactions and relationships with their learners. Kotahitanga – teachers promote, monitor and reflect on outcomes that in turn lead to improvements in educational achievement for Māori students.

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