Early Childhood Teaching - Bachelor of Education

Year 1

• ECET504 ECE Practicum I - Professional Relationships
• ECET505 ECE Practicum II - Teacher Identity
• EDUC513 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga I
• EDUC514 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga II
• EDUC550 People, Whānau and Communities of Aotearoa
• EDUC551 Development of the Child in Aotearoa
• EDUC554 Past and Present Perspectives of Aotearoa
• EDCR521 Te Whāriki
• EDCR522 Mana Atua | Wellbeing
• EDCR523  Mana Whenua | Belonging

Year 2

• ECET607 ECE Practicum III - Design for Learning
• ECET608 ECE Practicum IV - Te Tiriti o Waitangi Partnership
• EDUC515 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga III
• EDUC617 Ka Hāpaitia: Māori Success and Aspirations in Education
• EDUC624 Tapasā: Working with Pacific Learners*
• EDUC655 Ako: Learning and Teaching
• EDCR603  Mana Aotūroa | Exploration
• EDCR625 Mana Reo | Communication
• EDCR626  Mana Tangata | Contribution

Year 3

• ECET704 ECE Practicum V - Learning Focussed Culture*
• ECET706 ECE Practicum VI - Professional Learning*
• EDUC618 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga IV
• EDUC713 Inclusive Education
• EDUC720 Global Citizenship Education
• EDCR702 Justice, Diversity and Curriculum
• EDCR703 Infants and Toddlers

Option courses you can include in Year 3

• EDCR714 Language and Culture, or
• EDCR719 Pacific Gagana and Aganu'u*

And

• EDCR720 Integrated Curriculum Inquiry, or
• EDCR736 Pacific Talanoa*

_{*Students who complete EDUC624, EDCR719, EDCR736 courses along with their Professional Practice courses ECET704 & ECET706 at a Pacific early learning service can have their qualification endorsed with the Pacific specialty. These courses will develop the skills, knowledge and understanding to be a responsive early childhood teacher working with Pacific communities.}

Practicum teaching placements

All students are enrolled into a practicum course each semester where they are placed alongside an associate teacher in an early learning service. These practicum placements are connected to the Teaching Council - Standards for the Teaching Profession and provide students with a coherent pathway of study which grows in complexity and length overtime. This ensures students become effective, responsive and reflective teachers.

As part of these placements students will work with children from 0-5 years. Centres include a diverse range of early childhood education and full daycare centres, kindergartens and community-based preschool facilities.