Auckland is New Zealand’s largest urban area by far, and with 1.4 million people is home to almost a third of New Zealand’s population. It has the largest population of Polynesian people of any city in the world, and almost 2 in 5 of its inhabitants were born overseas, with almost 5% of these born ... Read More →
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Guest Post: Why Do I Have To Learn Teach This?
Teach in NZIn the interests of good taste and basic decency, you may wish to avert your eyes from the following list: Trigonometry, Quadratic Equations, y = mx + c, Histograms. Maths? Yes, Maths. I teach maths. I have some idea of what maths is, but when asked, I'll give the frustratingly vague description of ... Read More →
A Glossary for NZ Teaching Vacancy Advertisements
Job Seeking, Teach in NZThe Education Gazette, the NZ Ministry of Education's magazine. The Education Gazette website is the best place to find teacher vacancy advertisements in New Zealand. For New Zealand teachers, it's that time of the year: job hunting season. From September to November, the number of primary and ... Read More →
Teacher Education Refresh – The Facts
Job Seeking, Teach in NZIn the last few months, we’ve been approached by a number of provisionally registered beginning teachers who are worried that they might not get their full registration in time. They’ve heard they’ll need to complete a refresher course to renew their registration. Here are the facts: As outlined in ... Read More →
A Few Notes on Teacher Registration
Beginner Teachers, Teach in NZOver the last few months some of our consultants have been approached by final-year students about teacher registration. We thought we'd answer a few of the questions in this blog post. Before we go on, please note we are not experts on teacher registration. The organisation to refer your questions ... Read More →
Do You Want to Find Out More About the Free British Council Webinar?
Teach in NZWhat is a webinar? A webinar is similar to a seminar (conference) but conducted over the internet. The benefits of a webinar are that attendees (people who wish to attend the webinar) do not need to be present at a physical venues, meaning that you can attend from wherever you are in the world - ... Read More →
Where Can You Find NZ Teaching Vacancies? (Part 2)
Job Seeking, Teach in NZLast week we discussed why not all vacancies are advertised in the Education Gazette: Here are some of the other avenues through which schools and centres recruit their teachers: Recruitment Agencies Often principals and centre managers will have a fixed-term vacancy that they need filling quickly, ... Read More →
Where Can You Find NZ Teaching Vacancies? (Part 1)
Job Seeking, Teach in NZIt's that time of year again... NZ schools are recruiting for next year. More roles are advertised during the next two months than any other time of the year. Many teachers and soon-to-be graduates will be scouring the Education Gazette everyday for potential job opportunities. If you're not ... Read More →