Peter o Conner

 Peter was the Keynote speaker at the Teacher only day,

His main theme was creativity/ He made us warm up our hand and put it on where we think our creativity lies. Most people were placing their hands on their head . He said the problem with the new curriculum is it is too muck inteletual  and knowledge base .He is awake. Learning happens when you use feelings, your brain and movement. Other people put one hand one their head and the other on their heart, One boy thought creativity is in his knees . When Peter asked him why he touch his knees he said  he was  a dancer.His creativity was in his legs

Students bring their brain, mind and spirit, body  and culture to the class He keep wonderfully refering  to the Kapa Haka  and Samoan group performances  during the talk.Imaganation is when memory meets ............ .Music brings back memory.

His favrioute  teacher was in sister ..Philapobus . She was as wide as her name was long ............when he was 5 years old. He loved her and she loved him.he is Irish and went  to a catholic school.she made him feel special and touch base every day with all the children.

Go outside and find a treasure that is your own---a twig or branch.. and then they put it on  a table   . then she teach from that. Keep looking for treasures in everyday life

H was  a guide at Titiri matangi. Nikau trees is no coconut trees-  a teaching moment.

You learn by moving and feeling . The new curriculum got none of that in. It is all knowledge base. the head. no heart or legs-no feeling or movement



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