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8.7% of Bay of Plenty employees work in education

ChatGPT training for Bay of Plenty education staff

Make staff preparation easier to review. Use ChatGPT to explore a resource draft while the educator controls its purpose, accuracy and place in learning.

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Employees in education
12,578Bay of Plenty, February 2025
Share of Bay of Plenty employees
8.7%7 of 16 regions
Share across New Zealand
8.5%all regions, February 2025
Location quotient
1.03×close to the national share

Education in Bay of Plenty

A generic Whakatāne training provider could ask ChatGPT to draft a workplace numeracy practice task from an approved topic outline. The tutor tries the task, checks the answer and examines whether the explanation teaches the intended skill. The session uses adult staff preparation as its starting point, rather than assuming a learner should complete assessed work with AI.

TheColab teaches in person across Bay of Plenty and can include remote colleagues. Choose a staff-facing exercise with a curriculum owner who can judge the result. Participants learn to refine a brief, inspect evidence and preserve the difference between an appealing resource and a sound teaching activity.

Paid employees in education went from 11,617 in February 2020 to 12,578 in February 2025 (+8.3%).

Share of paid employees in education, by region

Share of employees in education by region, Bay of Plenty highlighted
RegionChartShareNZ×
Manawatū-Whanganui 10.6% 8.5% 1.3×
Gisborne 10.4% 8.5% 1.2×
Northland 10.3% 8.5% 1.2×
Wellington 9.3% 8.5% 1.1×
Otago 9.0% 8.5% 1.1×
Waikato 8.8% 8.5% 1.0×
Bay of Plenty (this page) 8.7% 8.5% 1.0×
Auckland 8.1% 8.5% 0.9×
Canterbury 8.1% 8.5% 1.0×
Hawke's Bay 8.0% 8.5% 0.9×
Taranaki 7.9% 8.5% 0.9×
Nelson 7.1% 8.5% 0.8×
Tasman 6.9% 8.5% 0.8×
Southland 6.7% 8.5% 0.8×
West Coast 6.5% 8.5% 0.8×
Marlborough 6.1% 8.5% 0.7×

Paid employees at business locations in the region, February 2025. The tick marks the national share. × is the regional share divided by the national share.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Local context

  • Tauranga's University of Waikato campus and Rotorua's Toi Ohomai Mokoia Campus establish local tertiary settings for this work. Toi Ohomai's applied IT curriculum also includes Artificial Intelligence Techniques, showing a concrete technical-learning strand in the region.1,2,31,2,3
  • The Tauranga Innovative Education Summit 2025 programme addressed AI literacy and policy development. It is useful evidence of educator interest, but it provides no regional measure of ChatGPT use or improved learner outcomes.44

Organisations are named for local context only. No relationship with them is implied.

Towns in Bay of Plenty

Each town page has its own figures and local brief.

Or see ChatGPT training across Bay of Plenty.

Where ChatGPT helps education teams

  • Keep a topic's preparation together

    A ChatGPT Project can bring approved sources, instructions and related drafting chats into the same context.7 Ask for several explanations of a difficult concept and identify the assumptions each uses. The tutor selects an approach suited to the actual class and checks the examples against the supplied material before building a resource.

    • Tutor or classroom teacher
    • ChatGPT Projects for staff preparation

  • Analyse a fictional resource survey

    Use a fabricated staff survey for data analysis, with explicit categories and deliberately blank responses. ChatGPT supports file inspection and charts.9 Ask whether the results describe all respondents or only those who answered a question. Have staff reconcile the chart with the table before writing an internal note about resource preferences.

    • Education operations coordinator
    • Data analysis with mock survey records

  • Review a resource helper's instructions

    In a workspace that permits custom GPTs, examine a helper for draft activity formatting. OpenAI currently limits creation by workspace permissions and flags a planned shift to plugins.8 Keep the learning objective, review rules and known weak examples in portable documents, so teaching staff can assess the process even if the interface changes.

    • Digital learning lead
    • Custom GPT instruction review

  • Find the authorised staff guidance

    If your provider approves a connected app, retrieve a staff policy from a selected library before asking for a summary. Connected services retain their own access rules and workspace controls.10 Verify the version with the policy owner and practise rejecting an outdated document. Limit the source collection to cleared staff references, excluding learner records.

    • Learning systems administrator
    • Connected apps for policy retrieval (formerly connectors)

Test the resource as an educator

  1. State the teaching objective and supply a cleared topic outline.
  2. Request a practice activity plus its proposed answer.
  3. Complete the task and inspect the reasoning yourself.
  4. Adjust the material with the curriculum lead.
  5. Record the permitted teaching use before sharing the approved resource.

Courses

  1. 1Introductory

    ChatGPT essentials workshop

    A hands-on first session: clear prompts, files, data analysis, Projects and search, practised on tasks your team already does.

  2. 2Organisation

    ChatGPT Business and Enterprise rollout

    Set up a ChatGPT workspace properly: plan choice, admin settings, an AI use policy, shared skills and Projects, and support that keeps people using it.

Education in other regions

Other industries in Bay of Plenty

See ChatGPT for education and training across New Zealand, or all training in Bay of Plenty.

Education in Bay of Plenty: questions

Is this a session for students to generate assignments?

The session trains staff to prepare and review resources. Ministry guidance distinguishes learning support from assessed evidence and requires a student's assessment to demonstrate their own knowledge and skills.5

Can an existing teaching GPT be reviewed?

Bring its cleared instructions and examples, with permission from the provider. We can examine the review method and prepare for OpenAI's announced plugin transition without assuming that every account can create a new GPT.8

What will replace an old agent exercise?

OpenAI now points users towards ChatGPT Work for longer deliverables and says the legacy agent is unavailable. We select the staff exercise after checking the provider's current, approved capabilities.11

How can administrators join the learning?

They can practise survey checks, draft staff guidance and review retrieval of approved policies. Choose fictional data and a defined approval route so their exercises remain useful without exposing learner information.

Train your education team in Bay of Plenty

  1. Send us a few linesHow many people, where you are, and the jobs that eat your week.
  2. We reply with a planA suggested session and format, plus what to bring: real quotes, emails and questions.
  3. Your team does the workAt your place or over video. They finish with ChatGPT doing real tasks, not demos.
  • In person
  • Remote
  • Half-day workshop
  • Full-day workshop
  • Team rollout

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Sources

Written 6 October 2026. Employment figures come from Stats NZ Business Demography Statistics.