https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb Made with good vibes en-us 2018-08-10 02:14:28 UTC 2018-08-24 03:43:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272575955 This week was a bit of a mixed mess. With new changes that started this term with not a lot of time for kaiako or ākonga to prepare for felt like we started erm off on the back foot. 

I have been put in a Puna Ako with the least amount of ākonga and 3 kaiako. It seems a waste of teacher resources however I didn't get an option to question this as I believe it would have been better that I went to help Alicia with her PA since she has a huge rōpū and majority are viewed to be our hard kids who I have quite strong relationships with.  One of the Puna Ako kaiako is very controlling and quite negative so am finding that a real adjustment from all other rōpū I have been in have been great collaborative kaiako.

I was out from Wednesday afternoon as my Uncle had a stroke on Monday morning and was in a comma and died on Wednesday night. I didn't return this week.]]> 2018-08-10 02:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272575955 ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272805428 This week I returned to work on Tuesday from being away at the tangi from Thursday the previous week. It was a very stressful and busy weekend working in at the Marae so I was quite exhausted when I returned on Tuesday. I ended up vomiting last block and went home with the worst migraine. 

Puna Ako is quite a chill place since we have really small numbers. I am finding that 30minutes is too long most of the time. I set all of my mentor groups goals at the beginning of the day and simply check in to see whether they achieved this or not. Is a bit frustrating being told what to do in this space every block by one of PA kaiako. Feels like this isn't my group and that I am simply a reliever in the group. Will hopefully develop over time.]]> 2018-08-13 03:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272805428 ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272806044 Finding it a really negative place to be at the moment. Most of the kaiako that I talk to are extremely unhappy with majority of the changes. People are not happy that we really only teach 3 blocks a week and the other times are mainly administration duties or supervising spaces. I am not happy with having to tell kids to be quite all the time. I find this a very punitive tasks. I was approached by an Ihutai kaiako this week for the names of several Kōrepo kids that were being loud. This put me in an awkward position as it was going to effect either my relationship with a teacher or ākonga.

Kaiako are feeling that Leadership teams don't listen to kaiako and care about our Wellbeing. We are feeling controlled and that we have had all the options and collaboration that we had last year taken away from us, even being told where to eat, stand, what to say etc. Most are too afraid to speak up as we could get punished for doing so. 

All and all not a positive or pleasant place to be or teach this term which is a real shame becuase I used to LOVE my job!]]> 2018-08-13 04:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272806044 ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272806968 Had a good play with 3 programs that are used to create objects on 3D printer. Tinkercad, Stephaneginer and Thingiverse. I have used these programs before but was great to have another play around with them. Can see how I am going to use them in my Teaching and Learning program this year. They are reasonably simple to use and operate as well which is awesome. Learnt also how to Import something from Thingiverse onto Sculpting App which is going to be extremely useful!]]> 2018-08-13 04:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/272806968 ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/273158988 This week has been a busy week with lots of students needing guidance with several projects. My ākonga are loving doing vision boards and I am getting multiple requests to keep running this workshop with new and old ākonga wanting to attend. 

My biggest issue at this stage is Senior Kapahaka with ākonga not being interested in this space anymore. I am hoping to change the direction of this and make it a whakanui of Te Ao Māori and leadership in this space in likeness to the Pasifika MAI Time starting off with a shared kai next week. Iri has been great in this space giving me ideas and mana to operate this.

I am struggling with all the admin that we are doing in Ihutai/ Kōrepo now and I feel the focus has moved from Teaching and Learning to writing Learning Stories about ākonga. I feel now we are being told what to write, how to write it with very little focus being on Hauora, Learning needs and behaviour. I wasn't aware that this was the vision of the hāpori and if I had known I would have returned to Riccarton. I feel that I can't approach SLT about this because I will get punished and/or shut down. I am only teaching 3 blocks a week now and I don't feel fulfilled as a kaiako with this workload]]> 2018-08-15 00:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/273158988 ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/274210458 I agreed with several things that the pair said. I agree that education has changed and that we as education practitioners need to change our view of learning and how we are teaching our ākonga. That we need to make, help and create opportunities for our ākonga to follow and be innovative in whatever it is that they are passionate about. The needs of our akonga have changed and the world that they are in and the careers that they will have may not have been created yet. This means that we needs to be developing ākonga who question the norm and ask why not. I do believe that the traditional education system placed boxes and barriers instead of scaffolding pathways of success. I did find this inspiring and was a main reason of mine for staying at Haeata and exiting traditional schooling. 

I however question where hauora fits into this mould? Where our diverse learners have a space in this space? Also where our community who have multiple issues (crime, poverty, mental health and abuse) are being catered to? Some of our ākonga cannot see past their home lives to be able to be these learners? I worry that unless we address these issues we will have a large percentage of our community who will be left without the skills needed to be successful in whatever shape or form that is.]]> 2018-08-21 03:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/274210458 ripekatamepo https://padlet.com/ripekatamepo/vkm4yhdw15sb/wish/274671751 Senior Kapahaka has been in a bit of a dip this year. This is due to many factors (*another* new tutor, nothing substantial to work towards, drop in numbers, me being out at Māhuri etc). After some individual ākonga voice, we have decided to change it up and move the immediate focus from just haka and move towards the "why" and more project based. I had a hui with those of the existing kapa that were at kura on Tuesday and we had wānanga about our purpose (and our wish list). This was a great session! Attached is the Doc we recorded our whakaaro on to.

We went through the new Whakatau docthat will be shared with kaiārahi and looked at what is appropriate and culturally safe for our ākonga and whānau, how a whakatau could and might look and when this applies. It was a great way to make ākonga aware of this, the risks and made them rangatira in this space. We finished off with Haka Pōwhiri practice that Raewyn and I ran to make sure we have a set Haka Pōwhiri with a new understanding of the kupu and when it is appropriate to do one now that we how our why.

I was asked to attend an Ako Panuku Hui and was allowed to go at the last minute. I it was an amazing wānanga! Such an awesome thing to be surrounded by like minded, intelligent, passionate and talent people in education. The many workshops that I attended were inspiring, insightful and so relevant to my teaching and learning practice. The ideas and tools that I obtained from these wānanga were exactly what I was looking for and needing to motivate our ākonga in hauora, hākinakina, arts, and so many more. It was very revitalising, reenergising and motivating for my wairua, hauora and teaching and learning practice. It reminded me of why I became a kaiako (especially a kaiako Māori) and to keep fighting the good fight for my people, my language and the next generation! Me mate ururoa kei mate wheke! It also reaffirmed and expanded aspects of my pedagogical practice helping with my professional and personal growth. This wānanga was exactly what I needed to keep me going for the rest of the term!  Ngā mihi ki ngā mana whakahaere o te wānanga nei. Nā rātou kē e whakaora ana i tōku manawa hei whawhai tonu i tēnei pēhitanga! 


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