Week 4 - What are important values for teaching that I carry with me?

During my time with Te Wananga o Aotearoa work conducted has been guided by the principles of the four Pou and takepu of ako Wananga frameworks. These are the values that I intend to carry on throughout my educational career and personal life. https://issuu.com/tewanangaoaotearoa/docs/te-manu-tauira-handbook-2019

In addition to general values such as respect, kindness, courtesy, compassion etc I feel values can manifest through actions such as taking the time to listen to children and allowing them to express their feelings or viewpoints; Treating children in a kind and courteous manner as opposed to the traditional authoritarian approach. Involving students in appropriate decision making processes is important to me because they have the right to be included in decisions that involve them such as input into class conduct - how they want to be treated. So values to me in this particular context are based around mutual respect.

Encouraging kids to dream big and reach for their dreams towards developing creative minds. Helping nurture children who display empathetic traits as I believe these children will become our future humanitarians and caretakers of our earth. For me it’s about nurturing and supporting the attributes that excel a student to reach their potential.

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Week 7 - Find a whakatauki and kiwaha to explain your teaching philosophy

Ka mate kainga tahi, ka ora kainga rua I have chosen this particular Whakatauki as I have always believed that when one door closes another will open. With every death there is a rebirth, a new beginning. Every failure is an opportunity in disguise. While we sometimes associate death with grief and loss, death is also a reminder that it is an end of a particular moment or period in time but with every sunset there’s a sunrise, new horizons. No matter what stage you are in life there are always opportunities for fresh starts and new beginnings. Opportunities to put an end to things that don’t work. We may stray off our life paths but there are always opportunities to reset and start again. And that’s what this means to me. OPPORTUNITIES “when one door closes another opens”.

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Ko Mataatua toku waka Ko Ngati Awa me Ngai Tuhoe toku iwi Ko Patuwai toku hapu Ko Putauaki toku maunga Ko Ohinemataroa toku awa Ko Pupuaruhe toku marae Toroa te Tipuna whare Kia Whakatane Ahau References Link to marae https://maorimaps.com/marae/pupuaruhe-toroa Link to waka https://www.geni.com/people/Toroa-Captain-of-the-Mataatua-Waka/6000000013444444735 Link to awa https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2712/ohinemataroa-river Link to ngati awa https://teara.govt.nz/en/ngati-awa/print Link to ngai tuhoe https://teara.govt.nz/en/ngai-tuhoe/print

Week 5 - What are some of the elements to be embedded into your teaching?

My personal element is Air and upon reflection this appears to definitely suit my mannerisms and personality. In order to ensure that I can accommodate for various learning styles I believe I would have to implement and embed a variety of aspects of all elements. I really enjoyed the tetra mapping elements and the meanings behind the connections to individual traits and preferred learning styles. I would definitely use this model however I do not believe that I have to limit myself to just one set of frameworks. The Natural Ako Styles - Activist, Reflector, Theorist and Pragmatist have quite similar traits when compared to the interpretations of the tetra mapping elements Fire, Water, Earth and Air. My particular result was Reflector and when you look at the general descriptions and compare this to the traits of the Air elements there are clear and direct correlations.

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