Overview

Overview

> Discover the ultimate lifelong learning career

• Are you a passionate graduate whose keen to positively shape Australia’s young minds? UC’s two-year Master of Secondary Teaching will provide you with the knowledge and skills to pursue your passion and enter a career as a teacher of students in Years 7–12.
• With the delivery of the Australian Curriculum in mind, discover pedagogical problem-based learning approaches within classroom and school settings and numerous ways to reflect upon your own professional learning objectives.
• Informed by the latest research, this postgraduate course for pre-service teachers includes 60 days of professional experience within Canberra region secondary schools.
• Like all Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) accredited education programs, UC’s Master of Secondary Teaching requires students to successfully complete a Professional Experience component and pass the moderated Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) that takes place within a school.
• Study the Master of Secondary Teaching at UC and you will:
• master the skills required for lesson planning and effective teaching and learning
• critically reflect on the ways in which educational theory and research informs teaching practice
• develop effective ways to collaborate as part of a team and interpret evidence and data
• increase your ability to reason and make evidence-based decisions
• empower learners with your strong subject and pedagogical knowledge
• establish and maintain ethical and respectful relationships with students, colleagues and parents
• promote participation and inclusion and develop the strengths and needs of students from diverse cultural, linguistic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds
• strengthen your professional leadership
• engage with schools in the Canberra region and build your own network of experienced professional and mentors