How to maintain hauora (well-being)

How to maintain hauora (well-being)

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Overview
Using this Resource
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Marking Student Responses
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Further Resources
This task is about writing an explanation of how hauora (well-being) can be cared for and maintained.

When writing an explanation, think about:

  • the organisation of your ideas and information
  • the way you link your ideas and information
  • your use of language
  • the accuracy of your spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

If you want to know more about the features of an explanation, ask your teacher for the sheet Writing an explanation - Learning intention guide. You can also use this sheet to evaluate your explanation.

a)  Read the following information.
 
Dr. Mason Durie developed this model. It compares hauora with the four walls of a whare (house). Each taha (wall) is a different dimension of hauora. All four walls are  necessary for a person's strength and balance, just as they are in a whare. This means  that a person can develop fully when all the dimensions are being cared for.

diagram of te whare tapa wha
Source: Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum, Ministry of Education, 1999.
 

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b)  Do a brainstorm on what each dimension could be about, and
     how you could care for the different parts of each dimension.
     Make notes from your brainstorm below. Some starter ideas have been put in for you.
Hauora dimension What this dimension includes How you can care for this dimension
Taha tinana
(Physical well-being)
Your body
 
Taha hinengaro
(Mental and emotional well-being)
Your thoughts, opinions and feelings
 
Taha whānau
(Social well-being)
Your relationship with others
 
Taha wairua
(Spiritual well-being)
Your values and beliefs
 
Adapted from Year 7/8 Kia Kaha kit, NZ Police - Youth Education Services.

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c)  Use the notes you made to write your explanation.
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online.
  • At step 2, a class or group brainstorm would be helpful for students to explore each hauora dimension with support. A fuller version of this chart can be found under the tab "Marking Student Responses". 
  • Teachers could print off this fuller version for students who need a greater level of support to initiate their brainstorming.
  • Students could use the self-assessment sheet Writing an explanation - Learning intention guide to scaffold their writing of an explanation.
  • Students could use the same sheet to assess their writing.
  • The success criteria and learning intentions need to be shared with students.
Levels:
4, 5
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
explanations, self-assessment, hauora, structure and language, organisation
Description of task: 
Using the whare tapawhā model of hauora (well-being), students explore the different dimensions of health, and write an explanation of how each can be cared for. The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • choose effective content, language, and text structure
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Writing meaningful text: text features, set 5
Writing meaningful text: text features, sets 5-7
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
Hauora dimension What this dimension includes: How you can care for this dimension:
Taha tinana
(Physical well-being)
  • Your body
  • Your physical development
  
Taha hinengaro
(Mental and emotional well-being)
  • Your thoughts, opinions and feelings
  • Your self-esteem
  • Your self-awareness
  • How you respond to situations
  • How you respond to people
  
Taha whänau
(Social well-being)
  • Your relationship with:

    • family
    • friends
    • others
  • Your sense of belonging
  • How other people relate to you
  
Taha wairua
(Spiritual well-being)
  • Your values and beliefs
  • Your sense of purpose in life
  • Your identity
  
Diagnostic and formative information: 

This resource could be used in conjunction with work being done from the health curriculum.

See Other resources listed below. The underlying concept of hauora states that students will explore and apply the concept of hauora to their own and others' lives in a way that shows that they have a positive and responsible attitude towards well-being, and they respect the rights of others.