This report, and accompanying resources, have been produced to provide good practice guidance for workplace mentors and organisations to support Māori apprentices in their workplaces.
Ako Whakaruruhau focuses on the quality of the teaching, learning, mentoring and the support that apprentices receive throughout their apprenticeship journey.
Resource download:
Report | Supporting Māori apprenticeship success through mentoring and building employer capability (PDF, 4Mb)
Ako Whakaruruhau Māori mentoring workbook (PDF, 2Mb)
Ako Whakaruruhau – Tuākana mentor book (PDF, 1Mb)
Poster set | Supporting workplace mentors (PDF, 700Mb)
A5 Handout | Being A Great Leader and Supervisor (PDF, 850Kb)
A5 Handout | Coaching and mentoring (PDF, 800Kb)
A5 Handout | Giving a great toolbox talk (PDF, 850Kb)
A5 Handout | Leave the land undisturbed (PDF, 850Kb)
A5 Handout | Sacred places (PDF, 950Kb)
A5 Handout | The Importance of the land, food and the Avon River (PDF, 800Kb)
A5 Handout | The town hall, from market place to living room (PDF, 400Kb)
Background:
An action research project, completed in 2016, to enhance success for Māori by supporting organisations to address internal cultural competency and good practice for Māori in trades training.
This research built on a model used in a previous research project – Te Ako Tiketike – Māori as Successful Workplace Learners at Hawkins Construction and the He Toki ki te Mahi Group Training Scheme. The project implemented Te Ako Tiketike, an evidence based theory model, and identify its outcomes for learners, as well as the mechanisms, systems and structures required to implement the model.
A collaboration of Ihi Research, Hawkins Construction, Te Tapuae o Rehua and Ako Aotearoa.
Report prepared by Catherine Savage.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF)