Course Learning Outcomes
- Apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, evaluate and synthesise teaching theory and practice in authentic situations.
- Apply communication and collaboration skills to design innovative curriculum, learning and assessment activities in secondary education.
- Reflect critically on a complex body of education knowledge, research principles and methods to demonstrate mastery of secondary teaching.
- Use high level self management skills to initiate, plan and execute an extended practicum.
Specialisations you can study in this course
Course structure
| Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| Personal Literacy | |
| Personal Numeracy | |
Students must complete the above two units LIT1200 (Personal Literacy) and NUM1200 (Personal Numeracy) to satisfy the requirements of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students (LANTITE). All students who enrol in an accredited pre-service teacher education course (undergraduate and graduate) from 1st January 2017 will have to successfully complete tests about their personal levels of literacy and numeracy to graduate.
This course includes a range of specialisations. Students must select two of these specialisations, one being a major study and the other a minor study. Students should select their major and minor areas of study (specialisations) based on their previous undergraduate studies. At the undergraduate level, study undertaken for a major study will be equivalent to a total of three quarters of a year of successful full-time higher education study taken over three years. Study undertaken for a minor study will be equivalent to a total of half a year of successful full-time higher education study, usually comprising sequential discipline study taken over two years.
The Catholic Education, Health Studies and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) specialisations are only available as areas of minor study. The Instrumental Music specialisation is only available as a minor area of study, and may only be undertaken by students who are completing the Music specialisation as their major area of study.
Year 1 - Semester 1 | Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| Classroom Management and Instruction | 10 |
| Learning and Teaching: From Theory to Practice | 10 |
| Unit from Specialisation | Major Area of Specialisation | 10 |
| Unit from Specialisation | Minor Area of Specialisation | 10 |
| First Professional Practice | 20 |
Year 1 - Semester 2 | Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| Diversity and Inclusion: The Differentiated Classroom | 10 |
| Assessment and Reporting in Teaching | 10 |
| Unit from Specialisation | Major Area of Specialisation | 10 |
| Unit from Specialisation | Minor Area of Specialisation | 10 |
| Second Professional Practice | 20 |
Year 2 - Semester 1 | Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| Strategies for Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students | 15 |
| Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation | 15 |
| Literacy and Numeracy in Teaching and Learning | 15 |
| Strategies for Learning Difficulties | 15 |
Year 2 - Semester 2 | Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| All students must complete the following two units (30 credit points): |
| Professional Learning: Pedagogy, Content and Technology | 10 |
| Final Professional Practice | 20 |
In addition, students must choose one of the following three options (30 credit points each):
OPTION 1: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING - RESEARCH MODE | Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| Inquiry Based Practice | 20 |
| Advanced Seminar | 10 |
OPTION 2: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING - INTERNSHIP MODE | Unit Code | Unit Title | Credit Points |
| School-based Professional Learning: Internship | 30 |
OPTION 3: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING - GRADUATE CERTIFICATE MODE
In consultation with the Course Coordinator, students may select two Graduate Certificate of Education units totalling 30 credit points.
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Cross-Campus attendance
Not all specialisations are available at every campus.
Practicum requirement
Central to this course is an extensive program of Professional Practice in schools. Because of its responsibility for the education, safety and well-being of children in schools, the teaching profession demands the highest professional standards and personal ethics.
Attendance requirements
All Professional Practices are undertaken on a full-time basis and teaching students are required to give a full-time commitment to the school during the scheduled Professional Practice periods.
Clearances and/or Risk Management Protocols Required
To undertake a Professional Practice in a school or childcare setting, all pre-service teacher
education students over the age of 18 must have supplied ECU with evidence of the following
two clearances:
- A valid National Police History Check from the Department of Education WA.
- A valid Working with Children Check from the Department for Child Protection and Family
Support WA.
Further information can be found at http://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/education/professionalpractice/
clearances
Professional practice rules
The Professional Practice Rules and Procedures and Code of Professional Conduct for ECU Pre-service Teachers can be accessed at www.ecu.edu.au/schools/education/professional-practice.
Employment opportunities
Graduates will be eligible to teach in a major and minor area of study in secondary schools in both the private and government sector. Secondary school teachers may also work in industry, TAFE, community organisations, private tutoring, consultancies, personnel training, administration and public relations.
Possible future job titles
Secondary Teacher, Art Teacher, Computing Teacher, Dance Teacher, Design and Technology Teacher, Drama Teacher, English Teacher, Health and Physical Education Teacher, Home Economics Teacher, Humanities and Social Science Teacher
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