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Grow your knowledge, enhance your skills and boost your career by upgrading your ECE diploma to a degree.
When you convert your diploma to a degree with Te Rito Maioha, you will gain a Bachelor of Teaching (ECE) with a deeper understanding of:
- curriculum design, assessment and inquiry
- inclusion, exclusion and marginalisation in ECE settings
- infants and toddlers
- mātauranga Māori
- leadership in early childhood education.
This part-time course is for those with an ECE teaching diploma who would like to upgrade to a Level 7 Bachelor of Teaching (ECE). Being part-time, you will be able to keep working while you study.
This course does not lead to teacher registration because it does not include practicum.
![Diploma of Teaching (ECE) to Degree](/images/diploma-of-teaching-ece-to-degree.png)
Course delivery
Te ara tuku
The pathway consists of three courses, each 12 weeks long, and one 16
week course (Māori Teaching and Learning | Te Hā o te Ao Mātauranga
Māori) taught in semester 2, which you may be required
to complete if you meet either of the following criteria:
- You did not receive your diploma from Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/New Zealand Childcare Association (NZCA) –
the previous name for Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand.
- You are unable to demonstrate competency in te reo Māori me ngā tikanga Māori.
This additional course includes a noho marae component.