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This professional experience placement provides ākonga with opportunities to develop the professional knowledge, skills and dispositions required to work in a school basing their practice on Our Code, Our Standards.
In this online ECE course you will examine the importance of supporting tamariki, families and whānau facing adversity.
This professional experience placement further develops your knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work in early learning services in Aotearoa New Zealand and your progression towards meeting Our Code Our Standards in a supported environment.
This professional experience placement strengthens your knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work in early learning services in Aotearoa New Zealand, and enables you to demonstrate your capabilities to meet Our Code Our Standards in a supported environment.
This online course introduces ākonga to the profession of early childhood teaching. Ākonga will learn about early childhood education and develop an understanding of their professional and ethical obligations and responsibilities as a teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand as outlined in Our Code, Our Standards.
This course examines the bicultural partnership between Tangata Whenua and the Crown forged through Te Tiriti o Waitangi and what this means for its multicultural education settings. Ākonga will reflect on their personal journey with te reo Māori, and their professional commitment as bicultural, bilingual and biliterate kaiako focused on supporting Māori ākonga achieving educational success as Māori in early learning and school settings.
This course provides an in-depth examination of the ethical principles and issues in research and teaching in Aotearoa. Ākonga explore research and inquiry frameworks that enable them to investigate and critique policy and practice issues. Ākonga will continue to extend their knowledge and skills to read and interpret research and literature to support a critical analysis of an issue impacting the learning of tamariki and identify implications for developing the practice of kaiako.
This online course prepares ākonga with the knowledge skills and dispositions to be culturally capable kaiako who meet the Teaching Standards (in a supported environment) and the expectations of Our Code Our Standard through in-depth knowledge of, and critical engagement with, these standards. Ākonga examine their identity as a learner and reflective practitioner and a kaiako and begin to develop a philosophy to guide their practice.
This course examines the values, principles and practices that contribute to inclusion and provides ākonga with knowledge and understandings to support the diversity and uniqueness of all learners and families in early learning services.
This professional experience placement supports the development of knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work in early learning services in Aotearoa New Zealand and progresses towards meeting Our Code Our Standards in a supported environment.