Postgraduate Certificate in Education

This certificate is designed to be taken part-time by busy teachers and cross-sector professionals with an education focus to their work. Complete just two courses to gain your first postgraduate qualification. A broad range of courses is available: from digital learning, mentoring, and early childhood, through to educational change, literacy, sport, health and wellbeing, second language learning and supporting Maori learners. Flexible delivery options and learning modes are also available to meet the increasingly diverse needs of our communities. Students with a GPA of 5 or higher who wish to go into further study can credit the postgraduate certificate courses towards a Master of Education, provided the certificate has not been awarded.

You can choose two 30-point courses from a wide variety of courses in your area of interest ranging from contemporary pedagogies, Maori/indigenous language revitalisation, and issues in literacy education, through to meeting the needs of gifted learners, social psychology of the classroom, assessment for learning and teaching, counselling and pastoral care and practitioner inquiry. This will help build your understanding and expertise in an area of interest or professional practice.

Requirement

60 points from a range of courses in Education Curriculum Studies; Education Practice; Education Professional Studies Maori; Education Professional Studies; Education Special; Education; Education Maori; or Social Work Child and Family Practice.

For those being admitted based on a non-education bachelors degree, you must include one of the following courses in your certificate: Contemporary Pedagogies (EDCURRIC 700); Special Topic: Being Maori, Thinking Theory (EDPROFM 700); Curriculum: Theory, Issues, Practice (EDPROFST 777); or Educational Psychology (EDUC 741).

See taught courses available at the faculty for your programme.