Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary)

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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 prepares graduates with appropriate teaching subjects to become confident and competent secondary teachers.

New Zealand is facing a shortage of secondary teachers so employment prospects are excellent, particularly for those who can teach mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, te reo Māori, English, or technology.

Who Should Apply?

Those with an undergraduate degree or equivalent which includes two teaching subjects, one to a 200 level and one to a 300 level. These teaching subjects form the content basis for the two curriculum areas that are required in the Graduate Diploma programme.

Graduates with a degree in only one teaching subject may be permitted to enter the programme so long as their teaching subject is approved by the Dean as a high demand subject. The teaching subject must be the major (300 level) in the degree.

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 February 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 (Secondary), a student must successfully complete 155 points made up of four core course and four courses which relate to your subject area.

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

In addition, you study two courses from the following list, which relate to your 200- and 300-level subjects from your undergraduate degree:

• EPOL 330: English Curriculum Study
• EPOL 332: Education Outside the Classroom Curriculum Study
• EPOL 334: Health and Physical Education Curriculum Study
• EPOL 336: Learning Languages Curriculum Study
• EPOL 338: Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum Study
• EPOL 340: Music Curriculum Study 1
• EPOL 342: Performing Arts Curriculum Study 1
• EPOL 344: Science Curriculum Study
• EPOL 346: Social Sciences Curriculum Study
• EPOL 348: Technology Curriculum Study
• EPOL 350: Visual Arts Curriculum Study 1
• EPOL 358: Enhancing Access in the Secondary Curriculum

Trimester 2

• KURA 301: Mätauranga Mäori in Education

In addition you undertake your second curriculum study course from the following:

• EPOL 331: English Curriculum Study
• EPOL 333: Education Outside the Classroom Curriculum Study
• EPOL 335: Health and Physical Education Curriculum Study
• EPOL 337: Learning Languages Curriculum Study
• EPOL 339: Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum Study
• EPOL 341: Music Curriculum Study 2
• EPOL 343: Performing Arts Curriculum Study 2
• EPOL 345: Science Curriculum Study
• EPOL 347: Social Sciences Curriculum Study
• EPOL 349: Technology Curriculum Study
• EPOL 351: Visual Arts Curriculum Study 2
• EPOL 359: Extending Gifted Students in the Secondary Curriculum

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 programme 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.

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 o

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

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