Oceania Teacher Visits
Oceania Teachers to NZLA Conferences
The NZLA is committed to developing literacy awareness of Pacific Island teachers.
Every year the NZLA, with financial support of local councils invites a different country of the Pacific to be represented.
Often this is tied in IDOC meetings
Year | From | Name | Conference Hosted by | Conference Venue |
2019 | Cook Islands | Roberta Murray
Piri Puna |
Canterbury | Christchurch |
2018 | IDOC Committee Members | Apolonia Tamata – Fiji
Folia Tohovaka – Niue |
Manawatu | Palmerston North |
2017 | IDOC Committee Members | Apolonia Tamata – Fiji
Folia Tohovaka – Niue |
Waikato | Hamilton |
2016 | Fiji | Amelia Samo
Adi Mere Cula |
Tai Tokerau | Bay Of Islands |
2015 | Samoa | Ana Veikoso
Selevaia Maafu |
Wellington | Wellington |
2014 | Tonga | Debbie Tiatia
Moli Amituanaimisi |
Tauranga | Tauranga |
2013 | IDOC Committee Members | Eve Reea – Cook Islands
Kathy George – Cook Islands Apolonia Tamata – Fiji Folia Tohovaka – Niue Dinah Iusitini – Samoa |
Auckland | Auckland |
2012 | Cook Islands | Vaine Teokoitu
Maara Scheel |
Hawkes Bay | Hastings |
2010 | Cook Islands | Maureen Goodwin from Cook Islands
(attended as chair of IDOC but living in NZ at the time, not sponsored by NZLA |
IRA World Congress | Auckland |
2008 | Cook Islands | Kathy George
Peo Vano |
Waikato | Hamilton |
2006 | Fiji | Matavuso Kotobalavu | Tai Tokerau | Bay of Islands |