Tataiako

= Tataiako- Cultural Competencies for Teachers = = =

Learning Paradigms Western Paradigm
 * 1) ** What ** (we are going to learn)
 * 2) ** Why ** we are learning it
 * 3) ** How ** we are going to learn it
 * 4) Then only at this stage do we think about ** who ** the learners are.

Maori Paradigm
 * 1) ** Who ** comes first (who we and they are)
 * 2) Then ** why ** we are learning something
 * 3) Then ** how ** we might best learn it (co-construction of learning, working it out together)
 * 4) Only then exactly ** what ** we will learn