Current Projects
Tapasā
More information coming soon.
Reo Moana aims to build understanding about bilingual and immersion education in schools’ senior leadership and to increase skills and competencies of teachers in Pacific bilingual and immersion contexts.
Providing professional learning and development for Teacher Aides/Learning Assistants in English-Medium and Pacific Medium classrooms, this project focuses on effective practice with emergent bilingual tamariki.
Past Projects
This partnership with the Moana Research in a Health Research Council is a Pasifika-led health and education collaboration designed to investigate community perceptions of Pacific child health and wellbeing of ‘under-fives’.
A partnership between the NZ Pasifika Principals’ Association, the New Zealand Principals’ Federation and the Ministry of Education, Tautai o le Moana is a professional learning and development (PLD) pathway by Pasifika principals, for principals of Pacific/Pasifika tamariki/rangatahi (children/young people).
Providing a series of modules with guidelines on improving teacher aide/learning assistant/bilingual tutor practice, we have been contracted by the Ministry of Education to review and update the Working with English Language Learners (WELLs) Handbook.
Faiako Maʻa Tonga (FMT), or ‘Teach for Tonga’, was a partnership project between the Institute of Education (IoE) at the University of the South Pacific in Nuku’alofa, Tongatapu and Auckland UniServices, the business arm of The University of Auckland. Vaʻatele’s contribution to this project supported literacy leaders to privilege the linguistic and cultural resources of teachers and children of Tonga