Te Aho Paerewa Postgraduate Diploma Teaching and Learning in Maori Medium

Te Aho Paerewa Postgraduate Diploma Teaching and Learning in Maori Medium is a selected entry programme. This means there are a number of extra requirements you must meet.

To enter this programme, you will:

• have been awarded or qualified for a bachelor's degree of at least 360 credits with a minimum of a B grade average across the 200- and 300-level courses, or equivalent
• have demonstrated fluency in te reo Maori at a level where you can sustain learning in a total immersion Maori environment
• have demonstrated competence in literacy and numeracy
• meet the requirements for registration as set down by the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, in terms of good character and fitness to be a teacher.

You will be selected into the programme on the basis of a process which includes an assessment by Massey University academic staff. This may also include:

• an interview
• te reo and mathematics tests
• practical exercises.

You will need to provide the following documents:

• a supporting statement
• a police vetting report
• referee reports
• two completed Te Kura Hapai forms from two different Kura Kaupapa Maori - Te Aho Matua.
• a consent to the disclosure of information for a New Zealand Police check - including two pieces of verified identification (one of which must be photographic)
• a copy of a police report from every overseas country you have lived in for more than 12 months in the last 10 years
• a health and disability declaration
• an NZQA International Qualifications Assessment
• contact details of two referees
• verified copies of all academic transcripts for studies taken at all universities other than Massey University.