Te Whatu Pōkeka: Kaupapa Māori Assessment for Learning

Te Whatu Pōkeka: Kaupapa Assessment for Learning Māori: Early Childhood Exemplars were developed to provide a resource based on a kaupapa Māori perspective and context. The focus of the resource is the assessment of Māori children in Māori early childhood settings.

The framework for Kei Tua o te Pae was developed from Te Whāriki, the Early Childhood Curriculum. Te Whāriki affirms the distinctive role of an identifiable Māori curriculum that protects te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and Māori pedagogy, and the transition of Māori knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Te Whatu Pōkeka is a practical resource that gives practical examples for Māori immersion and bilingual services as well as early childhood services with a high percentage of Māori children that can be use to develop services own assessment styles.

Its use is designed to support quality programmes and practices and strengthen learning outcomes for Māori tamariki in licensed ECE services.

Broad Māori concepts and perspectives provide an understanding of the insights and ideas that inform Te Whatu Pōkeka. These perspectives are drawn out through the exemplars.

Te Whatu Pōkeka promotes Tikanga Māori, Māori history and language as the key elements of its overarching philosophy, theories and processes and requires that we recognise what the children bring to the context and that the child emerges from rich traditions, surrounded by whānau.

A copy of Te Whatu Pōkeka is available for downloading via a link on the right-hand side of this page.