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Nau mai, haere mai.
Ko Moira Siobhan tōku ingoa.

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I am Playcentre Education Assistant.
I am also a tutor and do learner support

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as well I am both a facilitator for Space
and Playcentre sessions.

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I love everything I do for Playcentre.
Today I want to take a look at the

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concept of kaiako and what that means
within Playcentre.

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So let's take a little closer look at the
word kaiako.

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You're probably familiar with the word
Kai. Kai is food, but in this context,

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kai- is a prefix.
And when kai- is a prefix,

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it means the person who does, who leads,
nourishes or nurtures whatever comes next

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in that kupu word.  For example,
a kaimahi is a person who does the mahi,

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the work.
Kaikaranga is the person woman who leads

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the karanga welcoming call onto the marae.

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The second part of the kupu kaiako is ako.
There isn't a direct English translation

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for the word ako.
The concept of ako means both to teach

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and to learn.
It describes a reciprocal relationship of

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teaching and learning where the educators
or teachers are also learning from the

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students as well.
It's this interwoven learning that is

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happening together.

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So when we put Kai- and -ako together,
we get Kaiako.

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So it's the person who nourishes or
nurtures that teaching and learning.

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It's an educator within a reciprocal
learning relationship.

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So who are the kaiako at Playcentre? Well,
we all are.

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Playcentre recognises that parents and
whānau are the best and 1st educators of

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their tamariki.
So all parents follow and caregivers are

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kaiako.
Session facilitators and Centre Advisors

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- they're also kaiako but supporting not
only learning of tamariki but also the

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learning of parents and whānau.
And let's not forget that we've got

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children that are kaiako as well.

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Our older tamariki - more experienced,
they too are kaiako and are leading and

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teaching and learning as they go.

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A couple of final thoughts.
There is no plural of the word kaiako.

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Kaiako plural is still kaiako or ngā
kaiako. There is no S in te reo Māori.

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The 2017 version of Te Whāriki introduces
the word kaiako to describe all whānau

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teachers, home based carers,
educators and everybody else who provides

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care and learning for tamariki within New
Zealand early learning.

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Before that it was

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"adults" that were referred to.
So it's a bit of a step up to a talk of

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us of all being kaiako really - really
important.

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And it is really who we are at Playcentre
together.

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At Playcentre we learn from each other,
we learn alongside each other.

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At Playcentre, we are all kaiako.

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