Responsible faculty or institute:
Education (principal)
Campus(es) Offered:
Hobart:
Launceston:
Course Duration: Minimum
2 yrs, Maximum
5 yrs.
Course Contact (faculty or school):
(03) 6226 2546, fax (03) 6226 2569, e-mail Secretary.Hobart@educ.utas.edu.au
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Introduction
The Bachelor of Teaching is a 2-year postgraduate pre-service course taken after the completion of a first degree. The course is intended to provide teaching practice and skills to enable the beginning teacher to cope with the early years of teaching and to lay a foundation for further professional development in both theory and practice of education.
The Early Childhood and Primary stream (K - 6) is offered at both the Launceston and Hobart campuses.The Professional Studies units and some Curriculum specialisations will be run in a flexible delivery mode. It is anticipated that the Secondary specialisations will be taught as follows:
Hobart:
English, Information Technology, Mathematics, Middle School Mathematics, Music, Science, Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) and Multi-media.
Launceston
Technology (Materials Design and Technology including Home Economics), Performing Arts (Drama), Performing Arts (Music), English, Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE), Visual Art and Information Technology.
Admission & Prerequisites
A first degree. Requirements for secondary specialisations are specific to the subject areas. Intending students should have an adequate degree background for teaching in two of the key learning areas, except for Performing Arts (Music) and Technology (Materials Design and Technology). Contact the Faculty for this information. Applicants who do not meet the normal admission requirements for the secondary specialisation in Technology MDT will be required to undertake the
bridging course.
Course Objectives
The BTeach program prepares beginning teachers in all the appropriate major areas of professional competence which have been identified by relevant professional organisations. These include an understanding of, and ability to practice teaching as an active, interactive process involving the mutual construction of ideas, understandings, sensibilities and skills rather than the mere transmission of information; an understanding of the content, conceptual ordering and methods of inquiry of relevant subject areas; of how students learn and develop with individual differences; of the relationship between content knowledge and the process of teaching and the ability to plan and manage the teaching and learning process in an effective, inclusive and engaging manner; of alternative teaching practices in particular contexts with particular kinds of content; and of students, their development, the contexts that they live and learn in, including how teaching and learning outcomes are embedded in, and structured by, a variety of broad cultural and social processes.
The program enables beginning teachers to communicate, interact and work with students of diverse abilities, interests and backgrounds and to engage them actively in the learning process in an inclusive and non-discriminatory manner.
Beginning teachers acquire an understanding of, and ability to use, alternative assessment (monitoring, evaluating, reporting) procedures in different pedagogical contexts; a commitment to interrogate reflectively and evaluate their own particular conceptions of students, teaching, knowledge, the school curriculum, learning and education and to alter their professional practices if necessary after such reflection; a positive attitude to, and competency in the use of information technology in education. They are enabled to undertake research relevant to the improvement of professional practice and school effectiveness; and to gain a developed notion of the character and justification of a liberal democratic education and the normative expectations it imposes on teachers, schools, administrators, governments and the public generally.
Career Outcomes
The course is designed for those who wish to become teachers. However, there is a range of other professional activities available to teacher graduates.
Articulation to/from Course
Students who have undertaken an appropriate course at another Australian or overseas institution of Higher education may apply to receive credit for such study. Applications for credit can be made upon application to the Bachelor of Teaching course.
Honours, Postgraduate Coursework programs
Professional Recognition
Teacher registration (Tasmanian Teacher Registration Board)
