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This first teaching practice experience provides opportunities for students to enact their learning about teaching and demonstrate professional skills, knowledge, and dispositions in early childhood settings. Practice experience is focused on: developing beginning levels of practical competence in understanding and responding to learners, design for learning, establishing a learning-focused culture, fostering professional relationships, enacting principles relating to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and engaging in professional learning. Students are given the opportunity to observe and engage in planning and assessment within the centre programme. The practice experiences contribute to the examination of practice-related challenges and assignment requirements across the programme. Kaiarahi | Associate Teachers assist Pukenga Taitiara | Professional Practice Lecturers from the Faculty to assess students' developing competence as a teacher.
On the successful completion of this course, students will show competencies to progress their teaching and will have begun to :1. Discuss and apply practice that is aligned with tangata whenuatanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.2. Begin to use teacher inquiry, collaborative problem solving and professional learning to establish professional capability in supporting children’s wellbeing, belonging, communication, contribution and exploration.3. Establish and maintain professional relationships and demonstrate emerging understanding of teacher dispositions focused on the learning and wellbeing of each learner.4. Begin to apply practice that is focused on ongoing learning, and characterised by respect, inclusion, empathy, collaboration and safety for learners5. Work alongside and be guided by others to teach and respond to learners in a knowledgeable and adaptive way to progress learning at an appropriate depth and paceWITHDRAWAL DATESLast Day to withdraw from this course:Without financial penalty (full fee refund): the Friday prior to the placement commencingWithout academic penalty (including no fee refund) – available only through a special consideration application for late discontinuation.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
TEPI361
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Rikke Betts
Our code our standards : code of professional responsibility and standards for the teaching profession = Ngā tikanga matatika ngā paerewa : ngā tikanga matatika mō te haepapa ngaiotanga me ngā paerewa mō te umanga ; Education Council, New Zealand, Matatu Aotearoa, 2017.
New Zealand; Tapasā : cultural competencies framework for teachers of Pacific learners ; Ministry of Education = Te Tahuhu o te Matauranga, 2018.
New Zealand; Te whāriki a te Kōhanga reo ; Te whāriki : he whāriki mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa = Early childhood curriculum guidelines ; Ministry of Education, 2017.
New Zealand. , New Zealand Teachers Council; Tātaiako : cultural competencies for teachers of Māori learners ; Ministry of Education, 2011.
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Domestic fee $948.00
International fee $4,263.00
* 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 Social and Cultural Studies .