Overview 2021
Location
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Course objectives
Upon completion of the Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the provision of quality education;
- Critically analyse, evaluate and transform research findings as well as professional and personal experience to improve educational practice in a range of contexts;
- Analyse, generate, communicate, and critically reflect on responses to complex problems;
- Communicate effectively with diverse professional and scholarly communities across a range of platforms.
Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge - Graduates will know and understand:
- The theoretical foundations and practice of education (including various specialisations), and how these can facilitate enhanced pedagogical approaches, curriculum, policy, and student engagement from a global perspective;
- The relationship between reflective practice and professional standards in local and/or global education contexts, and how each can define, validate and enhance learning and teaching;
- The key research principles and methods applicable to extending knowledge in their specialised area of interest.
2. Skills - Graduates will:
- Critically reflect on practice and/or research findings to develop new understandings that can inform sound professional judgment, planning and decision making;
- Apply education theory to specific content and/or pedagogical knowledge to inform and advance learner outcomes and/or systemic developments within their own contexts;
- Initiate constructive responses to changing educational contexts and learner needs.
3. Application of Knowledge and Skills - Graduates will:
- Utilise educational theory and professional knowledge to design and evaluate programs in different learning and teaching contexts.
- Independently utilise professional standards and contemporary scholarly literature to reflect on practice and facilitate positive educational change.
- Plan and conduct independent inquiry to inform professional practice.
4. Communication, Collaboration and Leadership - Graduates will:
- Communicate professionally and effectively across diverse settings and audiences;
- Apply their knowledge and skills in collaborative practice and/or leadership roles.
5. Professional Learning - Graduates will:
- Utilise contemporary literature and professional standards to improve practice and promote constructive and collegial learning in educational contexts;
- Employ appropriate technologies to investigate and share practice with peers engaged in professional communities;
- Be responsible and accountable for their own learning.
6. Ethical Professional Practice - Graduates will:
- Conduct their practice and engage with stakeholders in an ethical, collaborative, professional and accountable manner;
- Understand that, globally, educational professionalism requires ethical standards as well as evidence-based and exploratory approaches to teaching and learning.
Course structure
The Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours consists of two Core Units, plus any five (5) postgraduate Education units.
All units are one semester in length and all units are weight at 12.5 credit points, with the exception of ESM708 which is weighted at 25 credit points.
Core Units (37.5cp)
Complete the following two units:
This unit is an introduction to research as an inquiry. In this unit, you will consider the importance of impetus in your proposed research. You will also learn the importance of developing succinct and robust research questions. You will consider…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESH714 Understanding Educational Inquiry
The aim of this unit is to show you a way to improve your practice and that of the colleagues you work with. It is a unit which integrates practice, action, theory and research in a very practical way. The…
Credit Points: 25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for ESM708 Improving Teaching and Practice through Action Research
Elective units (62.5cp)
Complete five of the following units:
This unit will establish the skills and knowledge to enable students to acknowledge their educational identity, and contextualize this within both their educational or workplace environment as well as their broader community. The concepts of collegial constructive criticism and peer…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
This unit introduces students to a range of theoretical approaches for facilitating learning, and relates these to contemporary educational practices. As a result of studying this unit, students will understand why contemporary education is focused on learning and understanding, rather…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
View all details for EAL502 Contemporary Educational Perspectives
Applied learning is an approach that contextualizes learning in a way to empower and motivate students, whilst developing the key skills and knowledge required for employment, further education, and active learner participation in their communities. It involves students and teachers…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit considers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate engaging learning experiences within applied learning settings. In the unit, you will examine the theoretical underpinnings of learner and teacher engagement in a range of contexts, including face-to-face and online,…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for EAL504 Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
This unit is designed to provide you with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the design and delivery of technology-enhanced learning and teaching.You will explore current and emerging technologies used in teaching, and critically evaluate their pedagogical affordances. There…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ELT506 Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching
The unit will explore the nature of inclusive education in the 21st century with an emphasis on diversity and exceptionality. Based on a philosophical foundation that values every student and acknowledges the right of every student to the most appropriate…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Term 1 |
View all details for EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings
This unit addresses salient issues in second language learning, globally. Second language within this unit refers to any language learned in addition to a first language. Issues include: linguistic issues in language acquisition; linguistic awareness; socio-political impacts and effects of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESG714 Global Issues in Second Language Acquisition
This Unit explores linguistics as an academic discipline and in particular its relevance to language learning and teaching. A central idea underpinning the Unit is the role that language awareness plays in preparing language teachers to teach English to speakers…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESG715 Linguistics and Language Analysis
This unit explores the complex relationship between language and culture, and considers both in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. The unit applies understandings of each to the teaching and learning of language. An emphasis is placed on understanding 'culture'…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
This Unit explores a range of approaches to English language learning and teaching including teaching strategies and techniques for teaching reading, writing, speaking and listening. The Unit will also study the nature of the second language teaching methodology in a…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESG717 Methodologies in Second Language Teaching
This unit investigates the implementation of current digital technologies in TESOL and considers the future of language learning and teaching utilising technology. The unit will include: language learning and the internet; interactive whiteboard technology; software and apps supporting learning and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for ESG719 TESOL Futures and Digital Technologies
This unit explores the many ways that literature can be utilised within a TESOL context. Literature as a focus for English language teaching will include a range of texts such as poems, novels, non-fiction works, plays and short stories. Multi-modal…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for ESG721 Literature, Literacies and Language Learning
This unit focuses upon an exploration of the scope of English for specific purposes (ESP) and the related learning and teaching within the specialities. Areas focused upon include: language analysis of English for Specific Purposes; the scope of ESP; learning…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
In this unit you will explore the impact of cultural change on the discipline of English. You will investigate how English language, literacy and literature continue to change as a result of a range of emerging cultural phenomena such as:…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit, which aims to deepen understandings about some key aspects of (successful) school leadership, is for those from a variety of educational settings who already occupy, or expect to occupy, positions entailing leadership. Topics covered include why school leadership…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Research suggests that leaders play a critical role in the ongoing development of their staff when it comes to improving complex organisations in times of rapid and disruptive change. Leaders in many organisations now hold identified and specific accountabilities for…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
This unit (comprising a three-part assessment item) is specifically designed to provide practical experience related to the concepts discussed in other parts of the Master of Education (Leadership) by having students participate in professional learning activities and programs offered in…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit is for the supported and assessed practice of English language teaching and can be conducted in situ, on campus at UTAS, Launceston or with a university recognised establishment locally or internationally.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
The aim of this unit is for teachers to examine the role of coaching and mentoring in preparing future teachers. This unit will assist teachers to develop their knowledge and understanding of coaching and mentoring. The unit is relevant to…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESM501 Planning for Practice-Focused Mentoring
The aim of this unit is for teachers to undertake the role of a coach and/or mentor for a pre-service teacher. This unit will assist teachers to develop their understanding of coaching and mentoring and to develop skills to improve…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Children's literature is an inherently modern category and central to young people's formal and informal learning experiences. The development of the category of child – educable, innocent, malleable, and distinctly different from adults – is a product of seventeenth and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESM703 Epochs and Empires: Western Literature for Children and Young Adults
The importance of gratitude to enhance our social and emotional wellbeing has gained momentum in the past decade as a topic of research in a number of fields. In this unit you will critically reflect on the meaning and role…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Leaders now hold key responsibilities for developing the human resource capacities in their organisations. During times of rapid and complex change this responsibility is increased. The professional development and on-going learning of staff, to meet changes in roles and capability…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Organisations everywhere now operate in an environment of rapid, on-going and disruptive change. Leaders play a key role managing such change, which can include system-wide and local reforms, restructuring and innovations Often, many planned changes are not implemented in practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
Expectations of leaders in educational and other settings can change significantly over the course of a career. In addition to understanding individual issues of changing professional identity, self-preparation, and role transition, leaders are required to engage with heightened responsibilities when…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
Discourses of improvement often drive the practice of leadership. Rapid changes to technology, increasing globalisation, and issues of organisational structure, culture and power impact on improvement agendas as well as the quality and effectiveness of such ‘improvement’ in practice.In this…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESM710 Leading Organisational Improvement
The purpose of this unit is to develop an appreciation of the characteristic features and educational issues associated with dyslexia and other related learning difficulties. You will be introduced to a range of theoretical models to explain dyslexia, alongside contemporary…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 2 |
View all details for ESM740 Educating Students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties (A)
Student disengagement is a multifaceted and often complex problem facing both teachers and educational administrators. This unit focuses on the theories behind student disengagement and takes a solution focused approach towards re-engagement practices. By the end of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 1 |
Using 21st Century Digital Tools in the classroom has progressed earlier objectives of inclusive educational technology, which were to promote access and to support and augment the learning of students with diverse learning needs. This unit will review the use…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESM742 Inclusive Educational Technology
Today's teachers need to be cognisant of the diverse range of their students' needs and abilities. Due to the nature and prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it is important for all educators to have the knowledge and skills to…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESM743 Educating Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Building upon 'Learning and teaching for students with Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties', you will develop specialist skills to identify learners with specific learning difficulties in the classroom and make diagnostic appraisals based on observation and assessment of attainments…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESM744 Educating Students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties (B)
This introductory course in adapted physical activity prepares pre-service educators to meet the needs of diverse learners by requiring candidates to effectively demonstrate the application of pedagogical strategies to teach children with disabilities physical activity, the use of appropriate assessment…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Teaching and learning is enhanced when educators know the 'why' as well as the 'what' of their practice. Understanding the theories that inform evidence-based learning and teaching strategies will enable educators to be innovative, adaptable, and effective. This unit focuses…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESM746 Principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis
This unit is designed for educators with an interest in special and/or inclusive education. The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MYCEETYA, 2008) and the Disability Standards for Education (2005) make it clear that students with disability should…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 2 |
View all details for ESM747 Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
This is the first of four units designed for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education Graduate Certificate (Early Childhood), specialising in teaching children (Birth-8 years). This unit interrogates current early childhood curricula and pedagogies. Topics include planning using relevant…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 1 |
View all details for ESM780 Curriculum Pedagogy and Assessment in Early Childhood
This unit will focus on conceptual development and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching children fundamental aspects of literacy, mathematics and science. A range of play-based strategies for supporting the development of viewing, reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills will…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 2 |
View all details for ESM781 Literacy, Mathematics and Science in Early Childhood
This unit connects theory, policy and practice concerning leadership and advocacy in early childhood. Topics will include contemporary models that foster effective leadership, constructive management strategies and considered ways to promote advocacy in early childhood. Students will also have opportunities…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 4 |
View all details for ESM782 Leadership and Advocacy in Early Childhood
This unit supports professionals undertaking a small-scale systematic investigation into an aspect of learning, or development within a learning context or setting. It aims to enhance students' knowledge of key theoretical perspectives, along with their skills of practitioner research, data…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Term 3 |
View all details for ESM783 Negotiated Study in Early Childhood
Entry requirements
Eligibility
Interested in studying the Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours, you will need to meet the following requirements:
If you are a In-Service Teacher
Hold an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) degree:
- Bachelor of Education,
- Bachelors degree with a Diploma of Education,
- Bachelors degree with a Bachelor of Teaching,
- Bachelors degree with a Master of Teaching,
- or equivalent ITE qualifications.
If you are an Educator
Graduates without a teaching qualification but with extensive experience in teaching or training can apply for admission to the course.
Articulation from
An initial teacher education degree
Articulation to
The Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours articulates directly with the Master of Education. The course is not designed to articulate directly with research higher degrees.
Students who complete the four coursework units will be able to exit the course with a Graduate Certificate of Education
Detailed Admissions Information
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
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