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Teacher Aide Paper Credit

Individual paper credit TPC
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Are you currently a Teacher Aide or in a Learning Support role in a New Zealand school? Enrol in our new Teacher Aide Course to further develop your knowledge and skills, with the potential to pathway into a Bachelor of Teaching qualification**.

15 points, 9 weeks (to complete all three modules) or 3 weeks (per single module)

Online

29 April 2024 and 9 September 2024

Why study the Teacher Aide Paper Credit?

This course introduces the role and responsibilities of Teacher Aides, including concepts of teaching and learning, planning and adapting for learners, and building professional relationships. It explores how Teacher Aides can support learners’ wellbeing and their specific learning, behavioural, and other needs. It also highlights the importance of inclusion, with a focus on how Teacher Aides can respect and acknowledge cultural and other forms of diversity in their work within New Zealand schools.

After completing this course, you will have further developed the understandings and skills that support your work as a Teacher Aide or Learning Support in New Zealand Schools. You will have explored a range of concepts and skills across the three strands of grades A and B of the New Zealand Teacher Aide Work Matrix.

This course consists of three modules (3 weeks per module), which can be taken as stand-alone components. The course is taught online for 9 weeks (to complete all three modules, or three weeks for those choosing to complete Module 1 only) and is supplemented with independent work and a practical component undertaken in a school context. To find out more information about what is included within each module, see the Course Overview section below.

We are also offering a pathway for staff currently working in a school who are interested in working towards gaining a teaching qualification. Students who are interested can begin study in the Bachelor of Teaching, Primary* part-time, via distance learning in the second half of 2024 (B Trimester) which provides a bridge to continuing with full-time study in 2025.  A 15-point option paper can also be credited towards the Bachelor of Teaching, Primary degree** upon completion of all three modules of the Teacher Aide Course. Further information about the pathway into the Bachelor of Teaching, Primary* will be shared during the course.

*subject to Bachelor of Teaching, Primary admission requirements.

**Note: Unfortunately at this time we aren't able to offer a pathway into an Initial Teacher Education Programme that is Secondary School specific, however you are able to use the 15 point paper credit towards another degree programme if you wish.

15 points, 9 weeks (to complete all three modules) or 3 weeks (per single module)

Online

29 April 2024 and 9 September 2024

Degree information

Entry Requirements Fees and scholarships

Course Overview

Module 1*:   TAIDE101 - Introduction to the Teacher Aide role

This paper introduces the role and responsibilities of Teacher Aides, including concepts of teaching and learning, planning and adapting for learners, and building professional relationships

Module 2*:   TAIDE102 - Supporting learners as a Teacher Aide

This paper explores how Teacher Aides can support learners’ wellbeing, health and safety, and specific learning, behavioural, and other needs.

Module 3*:   TAIDE103 - Cultural responsiveness, diversity, and inclusion in a Teacher Aide role

This paper explores how Teacher Aides can respect and acknowledge cultural and other forms of diversity in their work within New Zealand schools. The paper highlights the importance of inclusion.

*Module 1 must be completed first and is the prerequisite for modules 2 and 3.

Ministry of Education Teacher Aide PLD 2023-24

We're pleased to share that The University of Waikato has been approved in the Set Category for the Teacher Aide Professional Development Fund for 2024. To apply for this funding, please visit the Ministry of Education for pre-approval by clicking here.

After obtaining your Application Reference Number, please proceed to register for our course below and remember to email your funding approval confirmation to teach@waikato.ac.nz

Contact us

International Enquiries

Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5pm

School of Education

Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education, The University of Waikato, Gate 5, Hillcrest Road, Hillcrest, Hamilton, New Zealand

Jill Peterson

Teaching Fellow