Primary Teaching - Bachelor of Education
Passionate about working with children between 5 and 12 years? Develop the skills to become a teacher in primary or intermediate schools.
If you want to become a primary or intermediate school teacher, the Bachelor of Education (Primary Teaching) provides you with the skills to teach in primary teaching settings.
If you want to specialise in working with Pacific children, you can complete your practicum courses at a Pacific school, and study courses that develop your skills to be an effective primary or intermediate teacher working with Pacific children.
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This is part of the Bachelor of Education ([Specialty] Teaching).
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Year 1
- EDPT502 Primary Practicum I - Professional Relationships
- EDPT503 Primary Practicum II - Teacher Identity
- EDUC513 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga I
- EDUC514 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga II
- EDUC515 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga III
- EDUC550 People, Whānau and Communities of Aotearoa
- EDUC551 Development of the Child in Aotearoa
- EDUC554 Past and Present Perspectives of Aotearoa
- EDCR501 Integrating Curriculum: English, Mathematics and Statistics
- EDCR502 The Arts in an Innovative Learning Environment
- EDCR503 Physical Education, Health, and Wellbeing
Year 2
- EDPT603 Primary Practicum III - Design for Learning
- EDPT604 Primary Practicum IV - Te Tiriti o Waitangi Partnership
- EDUC617 Ka Hāpaitia: Māori Success and Aspirations in Education
- EDUC618 Te Reo Māori and Tikanga IV
- EDUC624 Tapasā: Working with Pacific Learners*
- EDUC655 Ako: Learning and Teaching
- EDCR601 Exploring Science through STEAM: Integration in Action
- EDCR602 Integrating Curriculum: Reading, Mathematics and Statistics
- EDCR604 Social Sciences Inquiry, Consciousness and Action
Year 3
- EDPT704 Primary Practicum V - Learning-Focused Culture*
- EDPT705 Primary Practicum VI - Professional Learning*
- EDUC713 Inclusive Education
- EDUC720 Global Citizenship Education
- EDCR721 Critical Pedagogies: Mathematics and Children’s Literature
- EDCR722 Digital Pedagogies & Technologies in an Innovative Learning Environment
- EDCR714 Language and Culture
- EDCR720 Integrated Curriculum Inquiry
Option courses you can include in Year 3
- EDCR736 Pacific Talanoa*, or
- EDCR719 Pacific Gagana and Aganu'u*
*Students who complete the courses marked * with their practicum courses at a Pacific school can have their qualification endorsed with the Pacific specialty. These courses will develop the skills, knowledge and understanding to be an effective primary or intermediate teacher working with Pacific children.
Practicum teaching placements
All students are enrolled into a practicum course each semester where they are placed alongside an associate teacher in a primary or intermediate school. 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 between 5-12 years of age across a diverse range of schools.
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- Graduates are eligible to apply for provisional teacher registration
- Teaching in a primary or intermediate school
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Other specialties in the Bachelor of Education ([Specialty] Teaching)
- Prepares you for a career as a primary or intermediate teacher
- Develop the skills to work with children between 5 and 12 years
- 25 weeks of practicum teaching placements in a range of primary and intermediate schools across Auckland
- Focus on reflection to enhance your teaching
- Someone who enjoys interacting with children
- Making difficult topics easy to understand
- Nurturing and attentive
The information on this page was correct at time of publication. For a comprehensive overview of AUT qualifications, please refer to the Academic Calendar.