Programme structure

Find out how our teacher education programmes are structured over the year.

All our teacher education programmes have been newly designed in collaboration with our teaching community to meet new requirements from the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. Information about our new programmes can be found in our Faculty handbook.

The details below provide an overview of the structure of the new programmes.

Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary )

First half of year courses (1 Feb-18 June):

• Akopai 1 - TCHG 315
• Learning Design 1
  • EC: TCHG 317
  • Pri: TCHG 325
  • Sec: TCHG 329/335(SS)
• Learning Design 2
  • EC: TCHG 318
  • Pri: TCHG 326
  • Sec: TCHG 332/335(SS)

Second half of year courses (5 Jul-26 Nov):

• Akopai 2 - TCHG 316
• Learning Design 3
  • EC: TCHG 324
  • Pri: TCHG 327
  • Sec: TCHG 333/381(SS)
• Learning Design 4
  • EC: TCHG319
  • Pri: TCHG 328
  • Sec: TCHG 334/381(SS)

Master of Teaching and Learning (Primary, Secondary)

First half of year courses (1 Feb-18 June):

• Te Koruru 1 - TCHG 505
• Learning Design 1
  • Pri: TCHG 507
  • Sec: TCHG 526/528(SS)
• Learning Design 2
  • Pri: TCHG 508
  • Sec: TCHG 527/532(SS)

Second half of year courses: (5 Jul-26 Nov):

• Te Koruru 2 - TCHG 506
• Learning Design 3
  • Pri: TCHG 509
  • Sec: TCHG 529/532(SS)
• Learning Design 4
  • Pri: TCHG 517
  • Sec: TCHG 531/532(SS)

Bachelor of Education (Teaching) Early Childhood – first year

Trimester 1:

• Hei Whaiora - TCHG 102
• Ngā Anga—Care and education frameworks and pedagogies - TCHG 103
• Te Tiriti—History and transformative education - EDUC 102
• Te Whāriki - TCHG 104

Trimester 2:

• Ngā Auahatanga—Innovations in care and education - EDUC 103
• Kia Rere—The “100” Languages of Children - TCHG 105
• Ngā Ariā – Theories of growth and learning in context - EDUC 104