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I have read many PEP plans over the years. As a teacher I was present at the launch of the PEP plan at Auckland Girls' Grammar School when Howard Fancy was Secretary for Education.
What has stayed the same?
What seems to be different?
There is a vision:
Vision: Five out of five Pasifika learners participating, engaging and achieving in education, secure in their identities, lan(u)guages and cultures and contributing fully to Aotearoa New Zealand’s social, cultural and economic wellbeing.
Minister Parata emphasised this vision quite emphatically at the secondary school launch of the current PEP plan at Kelston Boys' High School in Auckland on November 22nd 2012.
Will there be strategies, pathways or programmes that will be created to reflect this vision? Will schools be expected to have a Pasifika focus more entrenched in their school charters, vision, philosophy rather than just as a compliance for the Education Review Office? It will be interesting to see how the PEIP intends to show how schools should be doing this in their own contexts.
Your thoughts on the quick review?
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The Reo Māori version will be added soon. Please note that these are english translations of the Reo Māori version.
A discussion post has also been created to add questions/comments here:
The Māori Medium e-Learning Planning Framework
The National Team Leader for Māori Medium Blended e-Learning is Kathe Tawhiwhirangi-Perry.
Regional Māori Medium Blended e-Learning facilitators on the TMoA PLD team are:
Brett Cribb - Emai: brett.cribb@core-ed.org
Moana Timoko - Email: moana.timoko@core-ed.org
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa PLD 2013 - VLN Group link here: /groups/profile/749251/te-marautanga-o-aotearoa-pld-2013