As I continue to do CRT and leader release throughout Tautoro School ( both senior and junior classes), I am fully aware of how the Aotearoa NZ Histories Curriculum creates many opportunities to support Maori students in developing their identity as successful Maori learners. I plan to facilitate learning by sharing kiwaha and whakatauki with an emphasis on using those that originate from Te Taitokerau. Sometimes this will take place in those "spare moments" that release teachers find they have in classes.
Hopefully, through discussion, akonga will understand a wider interpretation of whakatauki in connection to historical origins.
The main resource of Tāhurangi NZC will help understand, know and do. I have been re-reading 'Tāhuru Kõrero" (The Sayings of Taitokerau) by Merata Kawharu and will select some of the relevant sayings from this book to share. I also follow posts and discussions on the Aotearoa NZ Histories Facebook page.
I have already shared parts of Te Ao o Te Maori (The World of The Maori) by Ruth Naumman and Frank Winiata, with classes. This has promoted much discussion and some whakatauki have arisen for further exploration of facts.
As in Term 2 at Tautoro School the Inquiry focus will be Early Maori Settlement (1200-1400), I foresee many more opportunities to share and discuss whakatauki. At the same time, I will be deepening my knowledge and understanding of the Aotearoa NZ Histories curriculum.
E tū te huru mā, haramai e noho,
E tū te huru pango, hanatu e haere.
Let the white hair remain here,
Let the black hair get up and go.
A whakatauki said to have been quoted by Nukutawhiti, on taking up his grandfather, Kupe's suggestion that he leave the wars of Hawaiiki and cross to the land of Aotearoa, which kupe had found.
The saying also refers to the young taking up the tasks left to them by their elders.
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