澳大利亚天主教大学

Become the kind of teacher who is confident, adaptable and able to design and implement engaging and flexible learning experiences to meet the needs of all students in the classroom. This is a graduate entry, preservice teacher education course for those who want to become secondary school teachers. Whether you are looking for a complete career change or are a recent graduate, you can use your undergraduate degree to inform your specialist teaching areas in this secondary school course. Depending on your undergraduate degree and campus of study, this course will prepare you to teach in two specialist areas.

Professional experience

Students must complete a minimum of 60 days professional experience during which time they are required to be available full-time.

Work placement

Supervised professional experience is at the heart of all our pre-service teacher education courses and the Faculty will find appropriate placements to suit the needs of your course. Professional experience units are planned as a specific sequence allowing for progressive development of both classroom-based proficiency and an understanding of the relevance of theory to practice and practice to theory. These units apply skills, techniques and processes taught in the Foundations Studies and Professional Studies units.

The practicum will be supported by other forms of in-school experiences, such as school-based tutorials and workshops.

Placements will usually be arranged for the scheduled placement period in the professional experience calendar though this may not always be possible. The Professional Experience program consists of a minimum of 10 weeks of teaching rounds, usually broken into three blocks.

Professional recognition

If you wish to teach in a Catholic secondary school you will be required to have a Graduate Certificate in Religious Education qualification or equivalent (this may vary by diocese). You can study this concurrently with your master's degree at ACU.

This program has been accredited by the Victorian Institute of Teaching and listed on the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) accredited programs list.

Careers

Our graduates have pursued careers in:

• secondary school education
• academia
• religious education
• education research
• play education specialist
• learning designer
• adult learning
• curriculum development
• education consulting
• government education policy making

Students with a Student Visa will need to complete the program in minimum duration, study at least one subject on-campus each semester and must not undertake more than 33% of the program online.