Teaching and learning Cook Islands Māori
This resource from the Teaching and Learning Pacific Languages collection provides teachers with support for the teaching and learning of Cook Islands Māori.
About this resource
This communicative language resource brings together a package of materials designed to offer flexible, progressive, entry-level lessons for teachers and students who are new learners of Cook Islands Māori.
Teachers can find a series of downloadable resources to use for planning and learning with their students. See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- Te Kaveinga o Te Reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani - The Cook Islands Māori Language Guidelines (.pdf)
- I-E-Ko-Ko! An Introduction to Cook Islands Māori (.pdf)
- Storybooks and teacher support materials supporting I-E-KO-KO (.zip)
- Pasifika languages research and guidelines project review (.pdf)
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Teaching and learning Cook Islands Māori
- Language guidelines
- I-E-Ko-Ko!
Te Kaveinga o Te Reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani - The Cook Islands Māori language guidelines
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
Te Kaveinga o Te Reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani - The Cook Islands Māori Language Guidelines (.pdf)
The Cook Islands Māori language guidelines support the Learning Languages area of the New Zealand Curriculum.
The development of guidelines for the teaching and learning of Cook Islands Māori began in 2000. Underpinning this work has been the close working relationship between the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, the Ministry of Pacific Peoples, the Cook Islands Māori community in New Zealand, and representatives of the Cook Islands Ministry of Education. The close collaboration with Cook Islands Māori people both in New Zealand and in the Cook Islands strengthened and supported the work. In 2004, the Ministry published Cook Islands Māori in the New Zealand Curriculum.
Te Kaveinga o Te Reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani: The Cook Islands Māori Language Guidelines is designed to support the teaching and learning of the Cook Islands Māori language as an additional language in early childhood and school settings in New Zealand. It sets out the competencies that learners need in order to communicate effectively in te reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani. Suggestions for the teaching and learning of the Cook Islands Māori language in early childhood and school settings are included.
Learning languages in New Zealand schools
Learning languages in a school setting involves developing learners’ capabilities for both learning languages and using them to communicate across cultural boundaries.
Students appreciate the deep connections between language and culture and how they work together to express values and meaning in particular ways.
Learning languages – A guide for New Zealand schools
The Learning languages guide provides information to support the delivery of language programmes.
Principals, language teachers, the board of trustees, and those looking to find ways to introduce or enhance language programmes will find comprehensive information in this guide. The guide is a useful reference for how to develop a vision for learning languages based on the benefits for students.
