Master of Teaching (Primary)

Study plan Year 1 Semester 1 CP EDMT5010 Special and Inclusive Education 3 EDMT5676 Teaching and Learning 5 EDMT5531 English 1 K-6 4 EDMT5533 English in Multicultural Classrooms 2 EDMT5534 Human Society and its Environment K-6 4 EDMT5683 Primary Mathematics 1 6 Semester 2 CP EDMT5502 Teachers and Learners: School Communities 6 EDMT5681 MTeach Professional Experience 1 2 EDMT5530 Creative Arts K-6 4 EDMT5536 Personal Development, Health & PE K-6  4 EDMT5680 Indigenous Students K-6 2 EDMT5582 Science, Technology and Toys K-6 6

Year 2

Semester 1 CP EDMT6125 Special Education: Inclusive Schools 3 EDMT6500 Schools and their Communities 5 EDMT6629 MTeach Professional Experience 2 2 EDMT6531 English 2 K-6 4 EDMT6533 Programming across the K-6 Curriculum  2 EDMT6628 Primary Mathematics 2 6 EDMTXXXX Primary Option Unit* 2 *Primary Option Unit EDMT5001 Children's Literature and Literacy EDMT6007 Conversations about Factual Texts EDMT6008 Digital Media in the Literacy Classroom EDMT6011 Improving Literacy through the Arts Semester 2 CP EDMT6012 Professional Research Project 12 EDMT6018 Teaching Internship 12

Master of Teaching (Primary) students complete 96 credit points (cp). Full-time students enrol in 24cp in each semester. Students normally complete a combination of core education and curriculum and professional units of study and practicum placements. The first three full-time semesters of the Master of Teaching total 72 credit points. Once the 72 credit points have been achieved students undertake extensive work in our partner schools from the beginning of their final semester.

For more information regarding the course structure, please visit the Faculty of Education and Social Work website.

Progression rules

Candidates must successfully complete each unit of study to meet the course requirements and graduate with a teaching qualification. Except with the permission of the Dean, a candidate must complete all unit of study requirements specified for each year, before proceeding to the next year. Candidates must complete a minimum of 72 credit points in Education before completing the Internship and the Action Research Project and Conference in the final semester of the degree.

Capstone experience

Students undertake their internship of at least 40 days (usually 45 days) in a primary school in the second semester in the second year of the program. Internship placements are approved by the Faculty, and students undertake their placements in the area in which they are enrolled and are conditionally certified to teach. During the internship, students are assigned to one or more mentor teachers, usually in a single discipline area and are responsible for teaching one or more classes for a total of between 14 and 17 lesson periods per week. The mentor teacher monitors the intern in their work in the school and, in discussion with the tertiary mentor, is responsible for writing a report on the internship that forms the basis of the assessment. Assessment is aligned with the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (BOSTES)'s Professional Teaching Standards for the Graduate Teacher.