Kia ora, nau mai uru mai ki taku pae tukutuku a whanake ngaio. 

Hello and welcome to my website on my professional development.

He uri whakaeke au o Ngāiterangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Awa. Heoi, e hara te toto, te iranga o tēnei nō Aotearoa anake. Nō Īnia,  nō Kōtirana, nō Hōrana, nō Kirihi, nō Ngāitiria hoki ōku tūpuna. 

Ahakoa te whakapapa i whānau mai au ki Ōtautahi. I tipu ki te tonga o Tāmakimakaurau ki Papakura. I hoki ki Tauranga Moana ki te taha o tōku whaea. Mō muri mai i te matenga o toku whaea i haere ki te Rohe Pōtae o Maniapoto kia kimi kōrero e pa ana ki te whānau 'Kingi'. Koia nei te ingoa whānau o tōku koroua a Te Moananui Kingi.

Ko tōku ingoa whānau ko 'Brown'. Koia nei te ingoa whānau o tōku matua a Noel. Heoi, ko te ingoa whānau o tōku whaea ko 'Kingi'. Ko Sharon tōna ingoa. He kaihōpara ēnei whānau e kaha ana kia hōpara, kia tāwhai i te moana. 

I kuraina ki kōnei ki Papakura ki Te Kura Takewaenga o Papakura ki Te Kura Tuarua o Papakura hoki. Heoi, i wehe atu i te kura i te wā o tōku hapūtanga. Koia nei te wa i hoki au ki Tauranga Moana.

Kia ora, I am Shanandore.

My whakapapa and family are very important to me and in understanding who I am and where I have come from. I am essentially a lifelong learner at heart. 

In November 2019 I've resigned from my role as a Specialist Teacher at Papakura Intermediate (PI) in order to take postgraduate studies in the Master of Technological Futures with Mindlab.  I will resume a Specialist role again with PI in 2020 but with more specialty - I received a Teachers Study Award for the year and this means I can work on a real life project that students can lead. This project will have an environmental sustainability focus and align with the United Nations Sustainability Goals.

In 2020-2021 I hope to serve my community in multiple ways by helping students of our community, Papakura, to see themselves as connected activist who truly understand their role as kaitiaki. They will help to restore Te Wairoa river - restoring up to 1km of river. They will help to create and design an education program based on the restoration. They will lead the surveying of the plants, birds, water and macro-invertebrates in order to monitor the restoration journey. They will lead the maintenance and presentation of this data that members of their community could use.

I love the stars, our environment and matauranga maori. All these will be intertwined into the project. 

2022 - hoki atu au ki te kainga o Tauranga moana kia noho ki te taha o te whanau whakaora ai, hui ai. Whai atu te mahi kia hanganga tētahi hōtaka e pā ana ki a Tangaroa me te STEAMM education kia whakanui o tātou uri o te Pasifika/Māori kia uri i ngā tūranga o te STEAMM.

Nō reira, i hono au ki Te Wharekura o Mauao hei kaiako pūtaiao, auaha me ētahi o ngā whatumanawa.

Teaching  is about people and kindness which comes before assessments.

“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.” ― Haim Ginott

I do place a high value on: student agency (heutagogy), ubiquitous learning and blended learning. I have a passion for blending science and Matauranga Maori. The difficulties with this has been putting in enough structure that allows student freedom but not soo much that it dictates outcomes, stiffling creativity and not sooo little that chaos is present.

Papakura Intermediate School's vision and mission was very important to my own beliefs:

• We are home to innovative learners and leaders. 

• To develop leaders who will self-determine their future

What interests me in Te Wharekura o Maniapoto is firstly it's home for me. The kura, the staff and the students will be whanau. The second thing that attracted me was the ability to work inside what the kura calls 'whatumanawa' or 'hubs' - very similar to 'passions learning'. Students choose, and dictate their own learning.

2022 - present (Papakura Intermediate School aka Mansell Senior School) Specialist Teacher Yr7-8 - Food Technology, Biotechnology, STEM & Mātauranga Māori (STEAMM)

2016 - 2021 (Papakura Intermediate School aka Mansell Senior School) 

Specialist Teacher Yr7-8 - Food Technology, Biotechnology, STEM & Mātauranga Māori (STEAMM)

2010 - 2016 (Te Wharekura o Maniapoto aka Te Kura Kaupapa o Oparure)

HOD Science & Mathematics Yr9-13

2013 - 2014 (Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi) Academic Staff (on the Bachelor of Environmental Studies - Field Research Surveying/Statistics)

2011 - 2014 (Indigo Pacific) Education Consultant - Māori (for the Bachelor of Environmental Studies with Awanuiarangi)

2007 - 2008 (Bay of Plenty Polytechnic) Academic Staff 

(on Ngā Okawa o Tangaroa - Customary Fisheries (Marae based))

2006 (Bay of Plenty Polytechnic) Academic Staff  (on the Diploma in Fisheries Management - Customary Fisheries)        

• 2021 - Postgraduate Certificate in Connected Environments, IoT's (Tech Futures Lab, Auckland)

• 2020 - Masters of Technological Futures (Tech Futures Lab, Auckland)

• 2019 - Post-Graduate Certificate in Applied Practice in Digital and Collaborative Learning, (Mindlab, Unitec)

• 2010 - Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching - Biology/Science, (Bethlehem Tertiary Institute)

• 2009 - Post-Graduate Diploma in Te Reo Maori, (Te Wananga o Raukawa)

• 2008 - Bachelor of Applied Sciences - Environmental & Marine Sciences, (Auckland University of Technology)

• 2006 - Graduate Diploma in  Leadership - Maori Development, (UNITEC)

• 2002 - Diploma in Marine Studies, (Bay of Plenty Polytechnic)

The homepage here is an introduction to who I am and my teaching philosophy, including a history of my teaching experience. Entries are recorded chronologically and recorded year by year. Each entry is identified with abbreviations representing which standards are been met. 

There are six standards;

1. Te Tiriti o Waitangi Partnership (TWP)

2.  Professional Learning (PL)

3.  Professional Relationships (PR)

4.  Learning Focussed Culture (LFC)

5.  Design for Learning (DL)

6.  Teaching (T)

Also see my Teaching @PI teacher Appraisal site for more details of evidence