EDU701: Teaching in Aotearoa L7 Assignment 2026 | Open Polytechnic

EDU701: Teaching in Aotearoa Assignment

Learning Outcomes:

• Critically discuss what it means to be a member of the teaching profession in Aotearoa and how to engage in professional, respectful, and collaborative relationships.
• Examine teaching responsibilities under statutory, regulatory, and professional requirements and apply these to teaching practice situations.

Tasks

• Identify at least one statutory or regulatory requirement and one professional the requirement that underpins the Standard you have chosen and explain how these requirements inform this Standard.
• Explain how the standard you have chosen connects with each of the four commitments in the Code for Professional Responsibility.
• Being a teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand requires engaging in professional, respectful, and collaborative relationships.

Critically discuss how you intend to do this in your practice by:

• Describing the specific actions you will take to engage in professional, respectful, and collaborative relationships
• Explaining how these actions will contribute to your meeting the Standards for the Teaching Profession
• Refer to at least two key sources of guidance to support your discussion.