Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education)

The Bachelor of Teaching – Early Childhood Education (BTECE) offers you the opportunity to gain a professional qualification as an Early Childhood Teacher leading directly to employment opportunities. This is a field-based teacher education programme which provides a balance between theory, research and practice.

Field-based education enables you to regularly apply your classroom learning. It allows you to undertake study and attain a teaching qualification while in employment or working voluntarily in an early childhood setting. This qualification prepares you for further postgraduate study should you choose to do so.

You will attend classes, on-campus, two days a week and undertake a minimum of 12 hours per week in a licensed early childhood education service. The programme is normally studied full-time over three years.

The academic entry requirement for the BTECE is one of the following:

University Entrance (as defined by the NZQA), or equivalent (for international applicants not schooled in New Zealand).
For applicants under the age of 20 years at the beginning of the academic year, who do not have University Entrance or equivalent, entry may be considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the School of Education and Social Sciences policy on discretionary entry.
For applicants over the age of 20 years at the beginning of the academic year, evidence of the potential to succeed in tertiary study at degree level, including demonstrated literacy and numeracy competence equivalent to that required for University Entrance.

For applicants with English as an Additional Language, English language fluency may be demonstrated by:

• An IELTS Academic score of 7, with no band score lower than 7, achieved in a single test within the two years preceding enrolment; or
• An equivalent score on a test of English language proficiency, as set out in the current Teaching Council Initial Teacher Education Requirements, achieved in a single test within the two years preceding enrolment. (