Introduction to Education Support

Students who successfully complete this online course will be able to

• Describe the characteristics of Aotearoa New Zealand education support contexts, with reference to legislation, policies and structures to ensure the health and wellbeing of children. 
• Discuss key aspects of Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum frameworks, including for literacy language and numeracy teaching and learning.
• Discuss strategies for establishing and maintaining responsive, reciprocal and ethical professional relationships for teaching and learning, including Māori perspectives and Pacific approaches.
• Demonstrate understanding of key theories of learning and human development as they relate to children’s education and care with reference to social and cultural contexts and cognitive development.
• Select and apply teaching and learning strategies to promote children’s learning in the education support context.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• choose the qualification you will study the course under
• check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.