Course details

Summary

The Master of Teaching and Learning is an initial teacher education (ITE) qualification. It is an exciting option for graduates seeking to become early childhood, primary or secondary teachers and who wish to distinguish themselves from other ITE graduates.

This professional master's will equip participants with enhanced research-based knowledge and inquiry skills, experiences of contemporary educational theory and professional practice so they can become teachers with the expertise essential to schools in the 21st century. It is also an ideal pathway for those who have a particular interest in and commitment to supporting learning for diverse learners in mainstream schools, including Maori and Pasifika youth, students for whom English is a second language and those who experience special learning needs.

The programme is aligned with the Education Council Aotearoa New Zealand graduating teacher standards and benefits from the 135-year tradition of quality teacher education and educational research conducted in the College of Education, Health and Human Development.

Qualification structure and duration

The MTchgLn delivery model is designed as a school-university community of practice. It is undertaken within a digitally enriched learning environment that reflects and supports modern learning pedagogies that are necessary for current and future professional practice in education.

The MTchgLn is an intensive, professional preparation programme comprised of 180 points, over one calendar year. It involves:

University-based coursework (120 points). The core coursework is taken together as a single cohort of combined early childhood, primary and secondary sectors.

Embedded practice-based experiences. This is where the cohort divided up into separate curriculum courses, depending on your endorsement level, during Semester 1 and 2 (60 points).

Further study

UC offers a PhD in Education and a Doctor of Education.

Career opportunities

Postgraduate study can bring many career benefits eg, specialist skills and enhanced knowledge, entry into specific occupations, higher starting salary/progression rates, research capability/achievement and evidence of high academic attainment/self-discipline.

Entry criteria

Applicants for the MTchgLn programme need to demonstrate that they have:

qualified for a degree in a disciplinary field appropriate to teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand, and have either a bachelor's degree or a bachelor's degree with honours or a master's degree; or
been admitted under the Regulations for admission ad eundem statum as entitled to enrol for the Degree of Master of Teaching and Learning.

In addition applicants:

• are normally expected to have achieved a minimum of a B+ average in the 300-level courses in their major subject, and
• need to demonstrate academic literacy and digital literacy/ICT competence at a standard sufficient to independently engage with postgraduate study and professional work contexts.
• For the Secondary endorsement, the entry qualification shall include courses to 300 or 400-level in a teaching subject appropriate to the secondary school curriculum.

Other English language requirements: TOEFL PBT with a minimum score of 575 and TWE with a minimum score of 4.5; CCEL EAP Level 2 with a minimum B+ grade; CAE or CPE score of 176 with a minimum of 169 in reading, writing, listening and speaking; Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PTE with an overall score of 64 and no PTE communicative skills score below 58.