Year 9 Te Ao Māori Course Outline
This Course Outline encompasses a year-long teaching programme and is designed to provide students with multiple encounters with Māori cultural concepts and values. This course places a focus on the development of students’ intercultural competencies and their understanding the key values of Māori culture and Māori principles, and their awareness of the connection between language, culture and identity. Students will understand the important place that te ao Māori me te reo hold in modern-day Aotearoa.
Big Ideas in Te Reo Māori
To be woven through this course outline.
BIG IDEA An introduction to the Māori world.
This is an introduction to the Māori world. This course presents a Māori view of how we see the world, offering insights into topics that are often discussed and continue to shape contemporary life in New Zealand. These include aspects of world view and cosmology, customs and values, mātauranga Māori, the Māori language, and performing arts. It will allow our mainstream students to have greater access to Te Ao Māori. The topics below give a broad oversight but are not limited to.
Key Competencies
in Te Reo Māori
To be woven through this course outline.
- Students will develop self-managing skills and strategies that will enable them to know when to lead or follow, and when and how to act independently or collectively for the benefit of te ao Māori.
- Students will apply creative and critical thinking, as well as metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas which will inspire them to be lifelong learners of te reo and ao Māori.
- Students in tandem with learning tikanga Māori, will strengthen their own identity, therefore, providing a strong foundation for them to create and nurture relationships with others and the environment.
- The ideas, values and attitudes developed from a Māori worldview will enable studentsto be culturally confident and competent to participate in and contribute to Te Ao Māori and culture revitalisation within their communities.