Master of Teaching (Primary Studies)

The Master of Teaching (Primary Studies) Program provides a postgraduate pathway into a highly successful and rewarding career in teaching. This innovative program is taught in trimester mode, enabling our graduates to enter the workforce rapidly and well prepared. The program aims to develop graduates who are outstanding teachers, who act professionally, ethically and effectively in their professional contexts; who engage in critical inquiry in their practice and the contexts of their practice; and, who play a constructive leadership role in public discourse on, and beyond education.

Students will complete two professional experience placements (the first which orients them to primary/elementary teaching, and the second as an in-country internship).

Graduates of this program, will be eligible to seek employment as Primary or Elementary teachers in a wide range of international contexts. (Graduates should check on local accreditation/registration requirements to determine the suitability of this program).

On successful completion of the program students will have:

• a body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in a discipline and/or area of professional practice
• knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to a field of work and or learning
• cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and to reflect critically on theory and professional practice or scholarship
• cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice
• cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level
• communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences
• technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship
• demonstrated the application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning
• demonstrated the application of knowledge and skills with high level personal autonomy and accountability
• demonstrated the application of knowledge and skills to plan and execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship
• demonstrated an advanced, integrated understanding of the complex contexts of education and their implications for contemporary schooling.
• demonstrated a sophisticated, specialised, holistic understanding of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy as they apply to diverse school contexts
• critically analysed, reflected on and synthesised complex concepts, problems, and theories in order to shape and implement curriculum responsive to the needs of diverse learners in a school setting.
• engaged critically with and in educational research such that research and inquiry inform and continuously shape evolving praxis.
• worked constructively and innovatively to build generative relationships between school, home and community, and leverage these relationships to the benefit of their students.
• demonstrated ethical and well-informed professional judgement and high levels of professional autonomy, adaptability, responsibility and collegiality, in the application of expert educational knowledge to diverse school and classroom contexts.