Teach First NZ helps would-be teachers with experience learn on the job - and in hard-to-staff subject areas. Photo: 123RF
The education sector has been getting a shake-up of late, with changes pending to the curriculum and qualifications - but it doesn't seem to have dented interest in the teaching profession.
New figures show there's been 3525 new enrolments by domestic students to initial teacher training so far this year - a 30 percent surge.
Auckland-based charity Teach First NZ has been on a mission for over a decade now to put teachers into the hardest areas of the profession to staff.
Since the programme began thirteen years ago, it's pumped out nearly 500 teachers - half in the desperately-needed STEM subjects and in schools in low-income communities.
Kathryn speaks with Angelo Tedoldi, who has a PhD in neuroscience and went through the programme in 2022. Teach First NZ's CEO is Liam Munday, and explains the programme's benefits.
