The Bachelor of Education (Primary) is a Teaching Council approved three-year professional degree. This programme prepares graduates to meet the Code and Standards for the Teaching Profession. Such graduates have a robust understanding of curriculum, teaching and learning, reflection and research as a teacher. 

The degree integrates theory and practice and offers students over 22 weeks of school-based practice. Students think vocationally and critically about teaching and have opportunities to reflect theologically on their practice throughout the degree. 

The delivery of the degree is site-based with the following modes: face-to-face delivery, blended learning and school-based learning. The degree features three practicum streams: early primary (including ECE), primary, and late primary (Intermediate and Middle School).   

Objectives

Laidlaw College seeks to prepare students for the teaching profession through a programme that centres on a theological foundation of hope that meaningfully integrates and orients with values, commitments and quality practice that are consistent with The Code and Standards of the Teaching Council in a supported environment. The qualification seeks to produce graduates who are relational, critically reflective practitioners who can design high-quality learning experiences from a place of curiosity about the learner, the world and a professional understanding of the goals, scope and nature of education. Graduating students will be qualified to register as teachers in New Zealand for primary,  intermediate and middle-school teaching in public, integrated and private schools.

PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS

The Bachelor of Education (Primary) is a three-year full-time (or part-time equivalent) programme. It is made up of 24 courses of 15 credits each at levels 5, 6 and 7.

* or other Theology course as specified by Head of Programme.