Flavell Te Ururoa: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFlavell Te Ururoa: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 06 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17488. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]11.TE URUROA FLAVELL (Co-Leader—Māori Party) to theMinister of Education: Ka tukupūrongo TeTariArotakeMātaurangamōōnahiahiaingā kaiakomō ārātou tauira āmēnāāē he ahangā huarahi kei arātou ki tewhakautuitāHana Turnerkōrero emeaane “very negative opinions about their Māori students”?[Does the Education Review Office report on teacher expectations of students; if so what mechanisms do they have in place to address whatHana Turner has described as teachers having “very negative opinions about their Māori students”?]Hon HEKIA PARATA (Minister of Education):Tēnā koe Mr Speaker.Āe [Yes]; from March 2010 the Education Review Office has made it clear that schools can achieve a high-performance standard only when their Māori students’ progress in achievement is in line with other students in the school. Since then the EducationReview Office has published guidelines on self-review to help schools ensure that they are working towards that outcome for every one of their students.Te Ururoa Flavell: Will she ask the Education Review Office to actively encourage schools to implementTātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners; if not why not?Hon HEKIA PARATA: As that member will be awareTātaiako is a cultural competency framework that was developed and introduced by his colleague and mine the Associate Minister of Education the Hon Dr Sharples to help all educators think about what it takes to successfully secure educational success in Māori students. All of the Education Review Office reviewers are trained inTātaiako. They conduct their reviews in the context ofTātaiako. The New Zealand Teachers Council is influenced and assesses its initial teacher education programme through the lens ofTātaiako. The Ministry of Education has incorporatedTātaiako into its Māori education strategy KaHikitia. New professional learning and development contracts from this year will be required to demonstrate responsiveness underTātaiako and the new providers of our Building on Success programme which is targeted to 100 schools this year are required not only to incorporateTātaiako but also to be able to report against it.Te Ururoa Flavell: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I appreciate the Minister and the explanation she gave but the question was really around the Education Review Office. I accept all those other departments do play their part but the key in the question was a link back to the original question around the Education Review Office.Mr SPEAKER: I think the Minister on this occasion addressed that question but I will allow the member an additional supplementary question.Te Ururoa Flavell: Kei te pai. Thank you. Does the Minister agree thatHana Turner’s research into teacher expectations ethnicity and the achievement gap mirrors similar research 30 years ago such as Dr Alton-Lee’sTake your brown hand off my book and when will she take urgent action to address the systemic factors of institutional racism and teacher bias?Hon HEKIA PARATA: I have not read either of those pieces of research but what I can say is that under this coalition Government Māori participation and achievement has increased and we will continue our relentless focus on raising achievement for all students Māori included. Can I repeat that in answer to the first supplementary question I started my answer by saying that all Education Review Office officers are trained inTātaiako and they use it in their reviews.Te Ururoa Flavell: Can the Minister advise the House as to when theTātaiako programme will be compulsory for all schools?Hon HEKIA PARATA: I have no intention of making that compulsory. We have self-managing schools. What we focus on instead is raising the expectation of student achievement out of each and every school and providing the tools and support that will assist those schools to be successful andTātaiako is a key tool in that support.