This initial teacher education degree prepares you for a rewarding career in secondary school teaching and enables you to pursue specialist interests. You will develop the critical knowledge and skills of best practice in education to meet the needs of 21st-century learners.

 

You can specialise in one or two curriculum areas, gaining specialist discipline knowledge and units that develop your pedagogical knowledge.

 

You'll also study units that establish your understanding of teaching practice, such as educational psychology, Indigenous education and teaching students with diverse learning needs.

 

Teaching placements

As part of the course you will complete four professional placements in schools. Totally 720 hours of supervised teaching practice, these placements are undertaken in full-time blocks, regardless of your study mode. You may be able to undertake a rural, interstate or overseas placement.

 

Your supervised teaching practice will comprise:

• a two-week full-time block in the first year of your course
• a three-week full-time block in the second and third years of your course
• a block of one full school term (typically 10 weeks) in the fourth year of your course.