Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary)
On this page:
- Overview
- Admission and Entrance
- Study Options
- Qualification Structure
- Timetable
- Teaching Experience
- Graduation and Teacher Registration
- Key Dates
- How To Find Out More
- List of Courses
Overview
This one-year full-time qualification 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.
The programme of study is designed for those with an undergraduate degree who wish to teach at primary level. Degrees from overseas universities may be assessed by NZQA.
Admission and Entrance
For entry into any teacher education qualification, you will need to be assessed and accepted by the Faculty of Education as suitable for the teaching profession. This involves meeting set criteria, having supportive referees, making declarations about any criminal convictions or health and disability issues, being proficient in the English language and successfully taking part in an assessment exercise. Applicants will be selected on the basis of academic merit.
Go to admission and entrance for more information about entry to teacher education qualifications.
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.
The campus option:
- includes timetabled lectures, tutorials, studio time and examinations at Karori.
The online option:
- is a flexible and convenient alternative for those with very good self-management skills
- includes a compulsory residency in February at Victoria's Karori Campus. Students are responsible for the costs of travel and accommodation for the residency
- has examinations which take place in main centres around New Zealand. Students are responsible for all the costs of attending exams.
The expected workload involves 40-50 hours of course work and study per week. Teaching experience blocks require full-time attendance for all students.
Qualification Structure
To be awarded the Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary), a student must successfully complete 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 23 January 2012)
- 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: Mātauranga Māori 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 Induction Day.
The first course EPSY 301 is a four-week course taught from the week beginning 23 January to the week ending 17 February.
Teaching Experience
There are two seven-weeks of full-time teaching experience (using the New Zealand curriculum) in New Zealand schools, as follows:
26 March to 25 May 2012
6 August to 21 September 2012
Teaching experiences are planned in such a way that students are able to see how theory and practice interlink in the development of quality teachers.
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.
Key Dates
Closing date for applications: 17 December 2011
Induction: 20 January 2012 for campus-based students only
Start date for the programme: week of 23 January 2012
Residency: 3-4 days in February 2012 for online students only
How To Find Out More
You can order more information on this subject using our Request for Study Material form.
Victoria's Student Recruitment, Admission and Orientation Office offers advice on courses and help with planning your degree.
The Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary) is administered by the Faculty of Education.
Student Administration Office
Faculty of Education
Level 2, Waghorn Block
Karori Campus
Phone: 04-463 9535
Email: address
Enrol online at: www.victoria.ac.nz/enrol
List of Courses
For course information go to the Course Catalogue and search under the following subjects:
• For EPOL courses, select the subject Education Policy & Implementation
• For EPSY courses, select the subject Educational Psychology & Pedagogy
• For KURA courses, select the subject Education Māori Pasifika & Indigenous
| EPOL 301 | The Teacher in Context |
| EPOL 320 | English Literacy and EAL |
| EPOL 321 | Mathematics and Statistics Education |
| EPOL 322 | Science, Social Science and Technology |
| EPOL 323 | The Arts, Health and PE and Learning Languages |
| EPSY 301 | The Learner in Context |
| EPSY 302 | Teaching Models and Strategies |
| KURA 301 | Mātauranga Māori in Education |