Te Huawhiti Career-Changer Scholarship

Requirements

To be eligible for the scholarship, you must:

• be changing your career or profession to teaching
• have at least 7 years of work experience or equivalent experience (either paid or unpaid) since leaving school.

or, you can:

• be an unqualified teacher currently working in a centre or school – such as a teacher aide
• be an unqualified teacher with a Limited Authority to Teach
• be working as a kaiārahi i te reo or kaiāwhina.

and

• be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
• be enrolled, have applied for, or be planning to enrol, on one of the approved initial teacher education programmes listed on the Teaching Council’s programme-finder tool (see the 'Popular Resources' section of this page.) These programmes may be updated during the year.

You are not eligible for the scholarship if you:  

• have already received a TeachNZ scholarship
• have already completed initial teacher education training or are already a registered teacher.

Unpaid work experience

This includes:

• any involvement you have had in the community or with community groups
• stay-at-home parents who have community/school involvement
• vocational placements
• unpaid internships. 

• Students planning to teach science, technology or maths.
• Students planning to teach in ECE or in secondary settings.
• Students who are Māori, Pacific or planning to teach in bilingual or immersion settings.
• Students from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

We're also looking for applicants who are currently working in a school as a:

• teacher aide
• teacher on a Limited Authority to Teach (LAT)
• kaiāwhina
• kaiārahi i te reo.

If there are large numbers of applications, we will shortlist based on these priorities.