Kia Ora & welcome to my Google Class on Air Site for 2020. My name is Whaea Kata and I'm TIC of Health at Tamaki College.
The predominant focus of these lessons will be based from the teaching and learning that occurs in one of my year 9 Junior classes and my senior NCEA Level 2 & Level 3 classes. As a result, most tauira are between the ages of 13 - 18, and you’ll notice across episodes, that class sizes vary between 6 to 30. Senior classes will often be smaller as there are a number of tauira who do trades courses and have extra responsibilities at home, work and/or school. Both senior classes have tauira who have taken health before, and those who are new.
All students have access to either a personal chromebook, school ipad or desktop. Students have access to their learning, anywhere, anytime as they can visit my google class site, click on their year group to find the specific tasks we are focusing on for the term and be guided from there.
As 91% of our tauira are Māori and/or Pasifika, and the remaining 9% are a beautiful mixture of diversity from across the globe, culturally responsive pedagogy & practices are central to student learning and well-being in my classroom. Manaakitanga is at the heart of all that happens within our health space.
If you have any pātai or questions, feel free to contact me.
Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou.