Applications

The Teach First NZ Programme is employment-based, and provides participants with the opportunity to teach in a secondary school serving a low-income community, whilst completing a Postgraduate qualification over two years.

There is an annual intake for the programme, and applications for the 2021 Cohort of the Teach First NZ Programme (commencing in November 2020) are open. The four-stage process, detailed below, is repeated once a month for different applicants.

Application

The online application is your first chance to share your story: your experiences, achievements, and motivations for working towards social change in Aotearoa. It should take between 1-2 hours to complete. Applications are open now.

Phone Interview

Successful applicants will be invited to a phone interview, which is an opportunity to discuss your alignment in further depth through a 20-30 minute phone conversation.

Ako Centre

Success in a phone interview will lead you to a one-day Ako Centre, incorporating a pepeha process, an interview, a group exercise, a sample teaching lesson and self-reflection exercises.

Offer

If you are successful at an Ako Centre, congratulations! You will be made an offer to start your leadership journey with Ako Mātātupu.

Start dates

The seven-week intensive training will commence in November 2020; participants will begin teaching in their partner schools in January 2021.