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Whakapiki i te Reo Māori and the Hōaka Pounamu Diploma are designed to extend and develop teachers in the use of Te Reo Māori in the classroom. While the qualifications can be undertaken separately, they are designed to complement each other and be studied consecutively. The combination of Whakapiki i te Reo Māori (term one) and Hōaka Pounamu (terms 2-4) provide a full year of comprehensive study.
These qualifications are ideal for early childhood, primary and secondary teachers who are teaching te reo Māori in mainstream, bilingual and immersion settings. You must be a fully certificated and registered teachers with full-time a permanent teaching position in a school or early childhood centre.
Teachers applying for the course must have already started learning Te Reo Māori before they start the course. Teachers who do not need meet this minimum standard may be required to complete an after school or summer school course as a provision of acceptance onto the Whakapiki programme.
Whakapiki i te Reo Māori is a full-time language learning programme for teachers and lasts 10 weeks (offered in the first term of each year).
The course aims to assist teachers in:
Applicants must have a basic command and understanding of te reo Māori. The Whakapiki i te reo Māori is a total immersion programme which will require that participants use te reo Māori in all areas of the programme.
Participants must be registered teachers in a full-time teaching position, and will be required to take leave from that position to complete the course. Course participants remain on their school’s payroll, and continue to receive any allowances they may normally be entitled to such as MITA and Management Units.
It is recommended that you complete the Whakapiki Reo programme before starting the Hōaka Pounamu programme.
The Graduate Diploma in Bilingual and Immersion Teaching is a Ministry of Education Study Awards programme, run in conjunction with the College of Education and Ngāi Tahu Development Corporation.
During your three terms of full time study you will complete six courses at Graduate Diploma level - level 7 on the NZQA Framework. These courses will have te reo Māori, language teaching, regenesis and revitalisation, curriculum knowledge, management strategies, and Te Waipounamu specific Māori knowledge as major themes.
Course participants must be fully certificated, and registered teachers, with full time, permanent teaching jobs in schools, who have permission to attend the course granted by the school Board of Trustees.
Applicants may be either Māori teachers, teachers of te reo Māori, teachers responsible for Māori in schools, Resource Teachers of Māori, or Resource Teachers of Learning and Behaviour who deal with Māori children and/or families.
The Ministry of Education supports the Study Awards by allowing successful applicants leave with pay for the duration of the course, as well as funding for relief staff employed by schools. Funding arrangements are organised directly with the Ministry of Education in Wellington.
Relief funding will include higher duties allowances and relevant holiday pay.
Course participants continue to be employed by the school and paid on a leave with pay basis, including allowances they may receive eg M.I.T.A. and permanent Management Units.
The Ministry of Education Study Awards also have allowances and fees subsidies attached, to assist successful applicants during the year. These include:
Ministry of Education Study Awards are available for 12 teachers, which may increase to 15 positions in future years.
Please complete the application for programme entry.
For more information email info@canterbury.ac.nz or Freephone in NZ 0800 VARSITY (827 748).