According to 'Statistics New Zealand (n.d)' in 2001 43.6% of Maaori left school with no qualifications, that's 122,472 young Maaori kids aged between 15 and 16. What makes me so special you ask? Well I was one of those children who left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications what so ever and also having no respect for learning or education. I understand what its like to not like school, to not excel in school, it has taken me twelve years to gain the qualifications and the respect that I now have for learning and education. To fully understand and appreciate education for what it is and what it provides, which is knowledge.I don't want our up and coming rangatahi to go through the same process of not liking education or its to hard to learn, education can be enjoyable, education can be fun, education can be empowering, education can be inspiring, education can mean transformation. I plan to be, do and achieve all those things within education for Maaori. The only way I can achieve these is to educate myself in the write tools to accommodate for the diverse tamariki of the future, staying current and up to date with the technology they are and will be using. Learning the easiest teaching methods, strategy's, formula's, initiatives and approaches to best cater for and excel the learning of our Rangatahi. As I believe we are 'forever learners' I would always be assessing the new information I receive to influence the development my teaching to to suit the tamariki of that time and era.
"E tipu e rea moo ngaa raa o tou ao, ko oo ringa ki te raakau a te paakehaa hei oranga moo too tinana, ko too ngaakau ki ngaa taonga a oo tiipuna, hei tikitiki moo too mahunga, ko too wairua ki te atua, naana nei ngaa mea katoa." naa Taa Apirana Ngata
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