AUT - Learn In The Workplace
Learn In The Workplace
During the Bachelor of Education and Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching, you will go on placement each semester for between three to five weeks.
The School of Education places each student in a range of centres and schools with different:
- age groups,
- socio-economic environments,
- cultural environments,
- teaching approaches and philosophies,
- types of organisation and management and
- varied communities.
This will enable you to develop strong teaching skills in a variety of contexts and reflect on a variety of teaching approaches and philosophies.
"Placements give you the opportunity to observe and teach your own class”
Bachelor of Education (Steiner Early Childhood) graduate Mandy Irwin completed a Bachelor of Education specialising in Steiner in 2006. Six months later she was offered a full-time teaching position at Auckland’s Michael Park Rudolf Steiner school in Ellerslie.
She says completing a teaching placement as part of her degree helped her establish a relationship with the school and eventually led to securing a full-time position.
“Ever since my first visit to Michael Park I have wanted to teach there. I did both of my placements at the school and then started relieving after I graduated,” she says.
“The placements were great. They give you the opportunity to observe and teach your own class - so you can figure out whether it’s right for you.”