Te Rou – Workplace Te Reo Māori

This micro-credential is partially funded. To meet the requirements for funding participants must be a NZ citizen or permanent resident.

Register below by choosing your preferred Te Kaupeka level 1 course, and then you will be given options to choose your level 2 and level 3 course dates on the registration form.

If you have completed either Te Kaupeka – Workplace te reo Māori 1 or Te Tauteka – Workplace te reo Māori 2 in 2023, and you want to enrol for the micro credential please contact us directly at: profdev@vuw.ac.nz

There are three formal assessments for the micro-credential which will be moderated and graded by the kaiako (teacher) with a pass/fail grade:   

• Develop and deliver with confidence an individual mihimihi with correct pronunciation.
• Develop and deliver a kauhau (speech) demonstrating a range of sentence structures in te reo equivalent up to 300 words.
• Present a kōrero on a topic of your choice utilising formal and informal grammatical sentence structures in te reo Māori.

This course is comprised of one hundred hours of learning in total. Sixty hours will be in a classroom format with a kaiako (teacher) and forty hours in total of self-directed learning. This is made up of three stand alone courses: 

1. Te Kaupeka
2. Te Tauteka
3. Te Kōpāpā

Each course is generally delivered 2 hours per week over 10-weeks either in person or fully online. The programme is designed to be interactive giving participants plenty of time to practice. Learning activities focus on extending your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in te reo Māori. 

Te Rou can be delivered privately in an organisations’ workplace and customised to your timetable, with a minimum of 2-hour teaching blocks required.  You can order a private in-house course delivery, please contact the Poutaki Māori directly marie.cocker@vuw.ac.nz

A micro-credential is a small, stand-alone credential that recognises the achievement of specific skills, experience, or knowledge. Typically, micro-credentials: 

1. Top up existing knowledge or skills so that people who are already qualified in an area can increase the range of their practice, or
2. Provide stand-alone new knowledge or skills so that people who are not already qualified in an area can do a specific aspect of it.

Micro-credentials were initially developed in 2015 in response to demand from industry for learners to be formally recognised for short bursts of formal learning that did not fit the model for a full qualification (either at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority threshold of 40 credits for a qualification or a university-defined qualification such as a diploma or degree). 

University micro-credentials are not the same as NZQA-registered micro-credentials. When you pass this course, instead of getting credits against your NZQA record of achievement, you will be awarded a pass against this course and 10 credits on your university academic transcript. You will be awarded a digital badge and a digital certificate.