Our teaching team is composed of experienced instructors and teacher-tutors, and we will also be involving guest speakers to teach individual sessions. Click here to read profiles for our team. The team is led by Dr Anna Wilson, PhD, PGDip(EdPsych), who has over 25 years of experience in the field of Specific Learning Disabilities, including internationally recognized research, university teaching, and more recently casework as an Educational Psychologist at the Ministry of Education.

Yes, but we require you to attend at least two block course(s) in person; the first block course, plus either the second or third block course.

You must be an NZ registered teacher, or hold a current teacher-aide position, with at least one year of practice in the classroom. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis for comparable experience working with young people in an educational setting.

You must be a NZ citizen or permanent resident to take the course.

There are 120 hours of face-to-face (or online for distance students) class sessions. This is made up of twenty days (with 3-hour morning and afternoon sessions). There are three block courses (Mon-Thurs of the second week of each school holiday), as well as one-day seminars on roughly every second Saturday of Terms 2 and 3.

Depending on your prior experience, you should consider allocating up to 15 hours a week for study; to include the class sessions, relevant reading / learning activities, and time to complete assignments.

Yes – There will be five written assignments; one for each block course, and one for each term.

The course cost is $3,500 incl. GST for the full course.

If you pass the course, you will receive the Seabrook McKenzie Teaching Certificate in Specific Learning Disabilities.

No, but if remaining places in the course become limited, we may give preference to people who are.

No, you will need to pass the teacher-tutor course and be invited by our Centre. An interview may be required. Successful candidates will have two good professional references, be deemed suitable for the role, and have been cleared by police vetting (legally required for all people who work with children or young persons in an educational setting). Acceptance of individual candidates is at the discretion of Seabrook McKenzie Centre.

Not currently, but the course is roughly consistent with a NZQA 40 credit Level 5 Certificate course. Past instances of the course were NZQA approved, and if there is a demand for this, we may look at re-registering.