Teachers conference 2026

Our Teacher's conference aims to brings together secondary school teachers to share programme information, insights, and support, enabling them to better assist students in making informed decisions about study options at Waipapa Taumata Rau.

This is also an opportunity for teachers to gain greater awareness of study areas beyond their own subjects, supporting their wider role as form teachers and academic advisers.

Register to attend this year's conference

Please note that conference ticket prices were set by looking at market comparisons and choosing a fair, competitive rate.

To recognise the extra travel and accommodation costs faced by educators outside Auckland, ticket prices have been heavily subsidised to help make attendance more accessible.

This is a two‑day event, with faculties grouped as follows. 

Conference objectives:

• Show how school foundation skills connect to university programmes.
• Explain the structure and content of offered papers.
• Highlight the importance of specific subjects for certain pathways.
• Strengthen relationships between schools and faculties and inform about outreach opportunities for students.

Both days follows the same schedule of events. The workshops will cover a range of topics in relation to the conference objectives and the faculties of the day - these are concurrently delivered with attendees able to select 3 workshops across the day.

In April we partnered with FMHS, Engineering, and Science to host a STEM Conference targeted to secondary educators. We had 80 secondary educators attend the 2-day conference and a 31.25% evaluation response.

Survey findings show that educators found the conference material to be interesting (4.44 average out of 5), informative (4.25), and extremely useful for their professional development (4.50). Global ratings indicate that the talks, overall, were excellent (4.44).