TEPP413-25A (D) Approved Start 2025 (Distance)

Teaching Professional Practice 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 31 March 2025
End Date: Sunday, 1 June 2025
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 course and first teaching practice experience provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to enact learning and critically reflect on teaching and demonstrate professional skills, knowledge and dispositions. Pre-service teachers develop practice competence in school contexts, with professional support. Practice experience is focused on 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. The course and teaching practice experience are closely linked to other courses in the PGDipTchgLn programme, through which opportunities are provided for examination of practice-related challenges and contributions to assignment requirements across the programme.

*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 successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
    1. Demonstrate values for teaching in a manner consistent with the teachers’ professional code of responsibility
    2. Enact practice that demonstrates commitment to tangata whenuatanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    3. Demonstrate practice skills aligned with the professional standards for teaching, , in relation to professional learning, maintaining professional relationships, development of learning-focused culture, design for learning and teaching and responding to learners.



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

Restrictions

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator

Annette Searle

Lecturers

Ceri de Boo , David Winter and Awhi Clarke

Assessment

Students must pass all assessment requirements to obtain a final passing grade for this course.  Final grades will be delivered at an examiners meeting and reported using the UC common grading system.

Attendance and Engagement (Distance)

Students are expected to attend and/or engage in all scheduled course sessions, actively engage with course content and actively participate in course activities prior to starting (preparation for PP) and throughout the professional practice in order to meet the learning outcomes for PP.  Insufficient preparation and/or lack of attendance/engagement in other courses prior to the practice starting may make students ineligible to undertake the professional practice.

Full attendance in an allocated school for the duration of the professional practice, for at least eight hours each day, is a requirement. Students will attend a debriefing interview with the PP lecturer after the professional practice concludes. This interview will be conducted at a University of Canterbury campus or via flexible delivery mechanisms.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,084.00

* 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 TEPP413 Occurrences

  • TEPP413-25A (C) Approved Start 2025
  • TEPP413-25A (D) Approved Start 2025 (Distance)