Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary)
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 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, Chemistry, Physics, Te Reo Māori, English, or Home Economics.
The programme of study is designed for those with an undergraduate degree or equivalent which includes two teaching subjects, one to 200-level and one to 300-level. These teaching subjects form the content basis for the two curriculum areas that are required in the qualification.
Graduates with a degree in only one teaching subject may be permitted to enter the programme of study 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.
Curriculum Studies subjects
You need to choose two of the Curriculum Studies areas relevant to your qualifications and experience. One of these subjects, studied to 300 level from the list below, should be the major subject in your undergraduate degree, and the other subject studied to 200 level.
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English Health Home Economics Learning Languages Mathematics and Statistics Music Performing Arts including:
Physical Education |
Science including:
Social Sciences including:
Technology Visual Arts |
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 qualification 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 examination 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 workload for this programme 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 (Secondary), a student must successfully complete 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 requires that students successfully complete the Trimester 1 courses.
Trimester 1 (begins week of 23 January 2012)
Core courses
- 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 352: Home Economics Curriculum Study 1
- EPOL 354: Health Curriculum Study 1
- EPOL 356: Physical Education Curriculum Study 1
- EPOL 358: Enhancing Access in the Secondary Curriculum
Trimester 2
Core courses
- KURA 301: Mātauranga Māori 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 353: Home Economics Curriculum Study 2
- EPOL 355: Health Curriculum Study 2
- EPOL 357: Physical Education Curriculum Study 2
- EPOL 359: Extending Gifted Students in the Secondary Curriculum
Trimester 3
Core courses
- 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-week blocks 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 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
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 programme advice.
The Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary) 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 330 | English Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 331 | English Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 332 | EOTC Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 333 | EOTC Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 334 | Health and Physical Education Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 335 | Health and Physical Education Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 336 | Learning Languages Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 337 | Learning Languages Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 338 | Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 339 | Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 340 | Music Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 341 | Music Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 342 | Performing Arts Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 343 | Performing Arts Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 344 | Science Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 345 | Science Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 346 | Social Sciences Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 347 | Social Sciences Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 348 | Technology Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 349 | Technology Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 350 | Visual Arts Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 351 | Visual Arts Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 352 | Home Economics Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 353 | Home Economics Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 354 | Health Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 355 | Health Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 356 | Physical Education Curriculum Study 1 |
| EPOL 357 | Physical Education Curriculum Study 2 |
| EPOL 358 | Enhancing Access in the Secondary Curriculum |
| EPOL 359 | Teaching Extending Gifted Students in the Secondary Curriculum |
| EPSY 301 | The Learner in Context |
| EPSY 302 | Teaching Models and Strategies |
| KURA 301 | Mātauranga Māori in Education |