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This online course will teach you to develop the knowledge and skills to analyse and conduct a valuation and prepare account statements for work carried out on a construction site.
This online course will show you how to develop knowledge and skills relevant to a range of procedures, types of contracts, methodologies and processes for the procurement of building projects.
The aim of this online course is to develop the knowledge and skills to effectively programme and monitor activities, resources and contingencies for a medium building.
The aim of this online course is to develop the knowledge and skills to manage logistics, resource allocation, construction activities and quality control for a construction site.
This online course is designed to teach you how to follow site procedures and help manage the construction process for a project.
This online course is designed to teach you how to create method statements and progress reports for a construction project.
This course builds on the language learning principles. In this course ākonga are introduced to the Learning Languages curriculum area and second language learning principles. A communicative approach to second language acquisition is explored with a focus on sociolinguistic competence.
In this course ākonga develop knowledge, skills and understandings to teach the four conceptual strands of the Social Sciences curriculum area in the New Zealand Curriculum through inquiry-based learning.
This course introduces the performing and visual arts as curriculum. A focus will be on the variety of assessment types related to the different strands. The key competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum are addressed through a range of theoretical perspectives, teaching strategies, pedagogies and content knowledge.
The 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 in Our Code Our Standards 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.