Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary)

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Who Should Apply? Timeframe Study Options Programme of Study Timetable Academic Assessment Graduation and Teacher Registration Key Dates How to Apply?

This programme is designed to prepare confident and competent beginning teachers with a commitment to lifelong learning and well able to 'make a difference' to those they teach. The programme covers the full range of curricula offered in primary schools.

Who should apply?

Those with an undergraduate degree who wish to teach at primary level. Degrees from overseas universities must be assessed by NZQA.

Timeframe

*Delivery of the programme part time is subject to staffing and external funding constraints.  A decision regarding this option for 2011 will be made later in 2010.

Study Options

This programme involves attending classes on campus or online and completing blocks of teaching experience in schools. The requirements and content are the same for both modes of delivery.

Time commitment

• 40-50 hours of course work and study per week
• Teaching experience blocks require full-time attendance for all students.

The online option includes a compulsory residency in June at Victoria's Karori Campus. Students are responsible for the costs of travel and accommodation for the residency.

Teaching Experience

There are two seven-weeks of full-time teaching experience (using the New Zealand curriculum) spaced throughout the year in New Zealand schools.

• Monday 22 March - Friday 21 May 2010 (Note: this spans the school holidays in April.)
• Monday 2 August - Friday 17 September 2010

Teaching experiences are spaced in such a way that students are able to see how theory and practice interlink in the development of quality teachers.

Programme of Study

To be awarded the Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary), a student must successfully complete 155 points made up of all eight courses in the list below.

The list below shows the order in which the courses will usually be completed. Progression to Trimester 2 courses requires that students have successfully completed the Trimester 1 courses.

Trimester 1 (begins week of 18 January 2010)

• EPSY 301: The Learner in Context
• EPSY 302: Teaching Models and Strategies
• EPOL 320: English Literacy and EAL
• EPOL 321: Mathematics and Statistics Education

Trimester 2

• KURA 301: Mätauranga Mäori in Education
• EPOL 322: Science, Social Sciences and Technology
• EPOL 323: The Arts, Health and Physical Education and Learning Languages

Trimester 3

• EPOL 301: The Teacher in Context

Timetable

The timetable for the courses will be provided to students at the Orientation Day.

The first course EPSY 301 is a block course taught from week beginning Monday 18 January to week ending Friday 12 February.

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Academic Assessment

• Internal assessment of assignments and portfolios
• Teaching experience assessment
• There will be examinations.

Graduation and Teacher Registration

Following satisfactory completion of the programmes students graduate in May the following year.

As a graduate of this programme you can:

• Apply for a teaching position in schools through New Zealand
• Apply for provisional teacher registration from the New Zealand Teachers Council (NZTC).
• Be recommended by your employing school for full NZTC registration after two years (and up to five years) of satisfactory teaching.

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Key Dates

*Orientation Days are for campus-based students only.

How to apply?

For further information on Admission, go to :

Admission to Teacher Education Programmes

If you want to find out more about this programme, please contact Student Recruitment and Course Advice:

• Phone: +64-4-463 5374 or 0800 VIC UNI (0800 842 864) and select option 2
• Email: course-advice@vuw.ac.nz
• Website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/srca

Enrol online at www.victoria.ac.nz/enrol

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