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September 19, 2022
Field-based training quells growing teacher demand
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira
Posted On September 19, 2022
Download AudioTertiary education provider Te Rito Maioha is responding to growing demand for primary school teachers with field-based degrees and graduate diploma in rural areas.
Programme development lead Anthony Fisher says it’s delivered through a mix of online and in-person lessons.
He says many of the tauira are already working at the schools or have children there, so the training becomes a partnership between the kura and Te Rito Maioha, as is happening with a school in remote Herekino in the far north,
“One of our students is been very successful. This is a small school. She has been involved in the school for 10 years as a teacher aide and a parent and now with the support of the principal has taken on to study as a teacher
Mr Fisher says.
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