School of Teacher Education

The School of Teacher Education provides a range of undergraduate, graduate and masters qualifications, teacher education programmes, and postgraduate endorsements in Specialist Teaching, Literacy, Teaching and Learning Languages, and Hoaka Pounamu.

We are committed to providing exemplary programmes for teachers, supervisors, curriculum specialists, and other professionals pursuing careers in education both in on-campus and distance deliveries. For more details, please review the course offering pages.

Planning a career in schools or education?

We have courses for students interested in careers in teaching at all levels. Find out more.

Learn from our students' experiences

Melissa Waite, who is now a secondary school teacher, shares her UC story.

Staff contact and research profiles

Contact our internationally recognised team, and view our full research and publications profiles.

News, events and seminars

Indigenous language immersion classrooms benefit f...

Teachers and children in indigenous language immersion classrooms around the world will benefit from an international pa...

More than medals – turning athletes into future le...

An upcoming UC Connect public lecture by a visiting Canterbury Fellow will focus on how athletes can develop and adapt a...

Summer startups: From didymo and drones to 3D, VR

What did you do this summer? If you were in the Summer Startup Programme, you may well have started your own award-winni...