TEPP102-25YC2 (D) Year C Second Half 2025 (Distance)

The Profession of Teaching: Understanding Learning

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 7 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 20 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2025

Description

This course is designed to deliver through practical application and first-hand experience in classrooms, the necessary curriculum and pedagogical content required of primary teachers. These experiences enable the student, his/her lecturers and associate teacher to systematically evaluate his/her developing knowledge and skill, identify emergent needs, and to record the student's progress in achieving course learning outcomes.

*Please note this course is only available to initial teacher education students. To enrol in this course you need to be accepted and enrolled in one of our Initial Teacher Education programmes.

Learning Outcomes

  • On the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
    1. Professional Learning - uses reflective strategies to identify and refine own teaching practices, including the use of te reo me ngā tikanga Māori  
    2. Learning Environment – selects, explains and applies strategies for developing contextually appropriate professional relationships with ākonga, whānau and colleagues
    3. Managing Learning - selects, explains and applies a range of key teaching practices that support relationships and learning for all ākonga
    4. Designing Learning– explains and applies a ‘framework for learning’ approach to support ākonga learning in a variety of learning areas including English and Mathematics
    5. Teaching - assumes a teaching role in the classroom/learning space for the equivalent of at least three days


    WITHDRAWAL DATES
    Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): the Friday prior to the placement commencing
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund) – available only through a special consideration application for late discontinuation.

Prerequisites

Timetable Note

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Chris Astall

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reflection 50% Using a reflective framework to refine practice
Annotated planning 50% Applying a 'framework for learning' approach: Personal narrative
Practice report Required Task: Professional Practice Experience PASS/FAIL

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Hill, Mary , Thrupp, Martin; The professional practice of teaching in New Zealand ; 6th edition; Cengage, 2019.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Teacher Education .

All TEPP102 Occurrences

  • TEPP102-25YC2 (D) Year C Second Half 2025 (Distance)
  • TEPP102-25A (D) Approved Start 2025 (Distance)