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Teacher Education

08 November 2023
UC offers postgraduate degrees in early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary teaching.
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Overview


Teacher Education

Introduction

Teaching offers a varied, stimulating and rewarding career that provides the opportunity to influence and shape many lives.

UC offers a number of postgraduate qualifications in teaching, from early childhood through to tertiary level. Some of these programmes offer students the opportunity to train and apply for registration as Aotearoa New Zealand teachers, following their initial university studies in other areas. Other programmes offer current teachers professional development in particular methods and areas of teaching, or research in contemporary theory and practice.

These programmes are particularly flexible, with part-time and distance options available.

Aotearoa New Zealand is currently experiencing a shortage in qualified teachers, and so employment opportunities for graduates is particularly high.

Teacher Education Postgraduate

Teacher Education

Courses

UC offers the following postgraduate teaching and education programmes:

See the individual qualification pages for more information on degree requirements.

The degrees in Teaching and Learning are the only programmes that qualify you as an Aotearoa New Zealand Teacher. Other programmes are suitable professional development programmes for practising teachers, or those wanting study in mentoring, training, or other educational settings.

The degrees in Specialist Teaching are open only to those with previous studies in teacher education, and with current teacher registration in Aotearoa New Zealand or overseas (will require police vetting).

Teacher Education

Career opportunities

Teachers at all levels in Aotearoa New Zealand are currently in high demand.

Graduates from select UC teaching programmes are eligible to apply to Matatū Aotearoa | Teaching Council of New Zealand for provisional registration as a teacher. After completing two years of satisfactory teaching, graduates are eligible to apply for full registration.

Those who complete UC’s teaching professional development programmes will have formal training in areas such as technology-enhanced learning, specialist learning needs, international teaching environments, and in tertiary contexts that will enhance and reflect on their current teaching practice.

Teaching skills of management, communication, coordination, responsibility, and organisation are also valued in many professions such as management, policy and advocacy, publishing, politics, and business.

Find out more about what you can do with a degree in Teaching.

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Postgraduate Prospectus 2024

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International Prospectus 2024/2025

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