TEPP361-26A (D) Approved Start 2026 (Distance)

Professional Practice 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 2 March 2026
End Date: Sunday, 14 June 2026
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.

Description

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.

*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, 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 learners
    5. 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 pace



    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.

Co-requisites

Timetable 2026

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Placement A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01-P1 Monday 09:00 - 17:00 - 20 Apr - 14 Jun
01-P2 Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00 - 20 Apr - 14 Jun
01-P3 Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00 - 20 Apr - 14 Jun
01-P4 Thursday 09:00 - 17:00 - 20 Apr - 14 Jun
01-P5 Friday 09:00 - 17:00 - 20 Apr - 14 Jun
Placement B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 08:00 - 17:00 - 2 Mar - 5 Apr

Course Administrator

Rikke Betts

Indicative Fees

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 .

All TEPP361 Occurrences

  • TEPP361-26A (C) Approved Start 2026
  • TEPP361-26A (D) Approved Start 2026 (Distance)