Workshop Session Three
"Exploring our children’s voices through song"
How can we ensure that in our play based learning, we are encouraging students to develop their gifts and talents?
In this workshop we focus on how we can explore children’s voices and thoughts on happiness, love and understanding, as part of the fundamental rights for children around the world. We discover how we can support children to be able to give opinions and share their ideas, so that they can use music to express themselves in meaningful ways.
Manu is a practising ethnomusicologist and educator. Her teaching experience has been in secondary schools in Auckland with Music, Social Studies and English from 2004.
From February 2005 to November 2012 as a member of Komiti Pasifika with PPTA, Manu has been involved in creating submissions and providing consultation feedback for various policy documents such as the Pasifika Education Plan for the Ministry of Education, the Pacific Languages Framework for the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs and the Pasifika Strategy for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
She has also provided Pasifika perspectives for the Senior Learning and Teaching guides, in the curriculum areas of Science, Accounting and Economics with Learning Media.
In the Early Childhood sector, Manu has worked with the Tamaki Learning Champions in Auckland delivering workshops on Self-Review in relation to Te Arohaehae Whai Hua. As part of CORE Education’s Pasifika Leadership course, she has been a guest speaker talking about the notion of leaders as learners.
Manu is interested in interacting with educators and supporting them in their work in raising student achievement, by realising student potential.
