Overview 2024
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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This course cannot be used for teacher registration.
Learning Outcomes
Course structure
To qualify to exit with this award you must have completed 100 credit points from the Master of Teaching.
Master of Teaching
Master of Teaching (Primary)
The Master of Teaching (Primary) stream requires the completion of 200 credit points comprising;
- 200 credit points of Core units,
- 60 days of Professional Experience
The proficiency will be determined by your major in your undergraduate degree.
LANTITE
None…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Online | Term 1 | ||||
Online | Term 2 | ||||
Online | Term 3 | ||||
Online | Term 4 |
View all details for EPE101 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
None…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Online | Term 1 | ||||
Online | Term 2 | ||||
Online | Term 3 | ||||
Online | Term 4 |
View all details for EPE102 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
Core
Foundations of Teaching introduces you to the study of teaching as a profession and dimensions of teacher relationships and work. Through acquiring skills to reflect critically on your assumptions based on past educational experiences and attitudes and beliefs about teaching…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
Effective teaching practice is informed by an understanding of students’ physical, intellectual, social, emotional, moral, and spiritual development and how they learn. In this unit, you will explore the following overarching questions: How can teachers create the conditions that promote…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
This unit is designed to provide you with a range of practical strategies to enable your classroom to have a positive learning environment. Situating student behaviour within a strong theoretical framework of engagement, you will evaluate a range of approaches…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit will help you to further develop your professional skills around planning for learning and the key roles of assessment and feedback as part of that planning. You will examine approaches for planning, assessment, and feedback and establish connections…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Summer school |
View all details for EMT508 Teacher as Planner Assessor & Reporter
Foundations of English is designed to provoke your curiosity about how language works, ignite your passion for English, and introduce you to the discipline of English as it is articulated in the three strands of the Australian Curriculum English: Language,…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
This unit introduces students to pedagogies appropriate for teaching primary mathematics and contributes to your evidence for meeting Graduate Teaching Standards. The unit will model and provide opportunities for students to engage with rich tasks, group work, problem solving, and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
In this unit you will learn how the Australian Curriculum: Science describes the ultimate goal of science education as being the development of scientific literacy. Science is not simply a body of knowledge but should also be understood as a…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT592 Primary Science & Technology Education
This unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of the subject disciplines, History and Geography, in the primary school. Students will learn about key aspects of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding and skills and how such knowledge…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT593 Primary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
This unit is a theoretical and practical exploration of ethics in relation to education and teacher identity. It encourages you to consider how particular philosophical ideas inform educational values, how they relate to your identity as a teacher, and how…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Winter school |
View all details for EMT602 Ethics, Education and Professional Practice
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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Summer school |
View all details for EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings
Work in this unit represents a culmination of your teacher education journey and is an important bridge to your ongoing development as a professional. Through engagement with a range of blended learning activities and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
EMT608 Teaching Digital Technologies is designed specifically for pre-service teachers undertaking a Master of Teaching. It will analyse the distinctions between Digital Literacy (previously ICT) and Digital Technologies and explore how computers can be used, with a major focus on…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit investigates the links between language and culture, and the importance of considering and analysing the linguistic and cultural differences of learners within any learning and teaching context. In particular, you will explore three main themes. Firstly, you will…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Winter school |
Children encounter a wide range of texts in their lives. They are expected to read and interpret these texts, and to create their own. An emphasis of study in this unit will be on notions of socio-cultural contexts and their…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT611 Primary English Curriculum and Pedagogy
This unit builds on the knowledge of pedagogies appropriate for teaching primary mathematics that students acquired in EMT521 Teaching Primary Mathematics 1. The second unit in the sequence, EMT620 broadens students understanding of mathematics pedagogy by addressing the content and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
Cultural Awareness: The Non-indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander interface
DetailsStudents are enabled to constructively consider the interface of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous issues, histories, cultures and perspectives in education, the curriculum and the ‘hidden curriculum’. The unit has four foci which are integrated: identity/ nationalism, history,…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Winter school |
This unit provides an introduction to working with the Arts in educational contexts. In this unit you will develop an understanding of the distinctive value of Arts education, particularly the opportunities that it provides to deliver integrated and creative early…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Summer school |
The unit aims to promote awareness of the importance of Health and Physical Education (HPE) in the curriculum from a generalist teachers perspective and provide confidence in teaching its concepts at a primary school level. It seeks to prepare primary…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
Professional Experience
The second Professional Experience (PE1) provides pre-service teachers the opportunity to become familiar with the school context. PE1 primarily involves active observation, discussions with the supervising teacher and initial school experiences. Throughout the placement pre-service teachers are required to maintain…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT512 Professional Experience 1 (Primary)
The second Professional Experience (PE2) provides pre-service teachers the opportunity to become familiar with the school context. PE2 primarily involves active observation, discussions with the supervising teacher and initial school experiences. Throughout the placement pre-service teachers are required to maintain…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT518 Professional Experience 2 (Primary)
The third Professional Experience (PE3) provides pre-service teachers the opportunity to become familiar with the school context. PE3 primarily involves active observation, discussions with the supervising teacher and initial school experiences. Throughout the placement pre-service teachers are required to maintain…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT614 Professional Experience 3 (Primary)
Master of Teaching (Secondary)
The Master of Teaching (Secondary) stream requires the completion of 200 credit points comprising;
- 137.5 credit points of Core units,
- 12.5 credit points of Core Option units
- 60 days of Professional Experience
- two 25 credit point Secondary teaching Specialisations
Your first teaching specialisation must be aligned with your major in the undergraduate degree. Your second teaching area must be aligned with no less than 50 credit points of Discipline Electives in a related subject area in the Bachelor degree, with at least two units at Intermediate (200-level) or higher.
LANTITE
None…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Term 1 | ||||
Online | Term 2 | ||||
Online | Term 3 | ||||
Online | Term 4 |
View all details for EPE101 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
None…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Term 1 | ||||
Online | Term 2 | ||||
Online | Term 3 | ||||
Online | Term 4 |
View all details for EPE102 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
Core
Foundations of Teaching introduces you to the study of teaching as a profession and dimensions of teacher relationships and work. Through acquiring skills to reflect critically on your assumptions based on past educational experiences and attitudes and beliefs about teaching…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
Effective teaching practice is informed by an understanding of students’ physical, intellectual, social, emotional, moral, and spiritual development and how they learn. In this unit, you will explore the following overarching questions: How can teachers create the conditions that promote…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
This unit is designed to provide you with a range of practical strategies to enable your classroom to have a positive learning environment. Situating student behaviour within a strong theoretical framework of engagement, you will evaluate a range of approaches…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit will help you to further develop your professional skills around planning for learning and the key roles of assessment and feedback as part of that planning. You will examine approaches for planning, assessment, and feedback and establish connections…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Summer school |
View all details for EMT508 Teacher as Planner Assessor & Reporter
Literacy in Secondary School is designed to help you develop your knowledge and skills for the teaching of literacy in secondary classrooms. With a focus on the nature of literacy in Australia, this unit will reveal the vital role language and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
This unit is the foundation mathematics and numeracy unit for secondary students in the Master of Teaching. It provides an opportunity to reflect upon and to develop understanding of concepts that are central to mathematics curricula; to consider the cross-disciplinary…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT520 Personal and Professional Numeracy
This unit is a theoretical and practical exploration of ethics in relation to education and teacher identity. It encourages you to consider how particular philosophical ideas inform educational values, how they relate to your identity as a teacher, and how…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Winter school |
View all details for EMT602 Ethics, Education and Professional Practice
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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Summer school |
View all details for EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings
Work in this unit represents a culmination of your teacher education journey and is an important bridge to your ongoing development as a professional. Through engagement with a range of blended learning activities and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
EMT608 Teaching Digital Technologies is designed specifically for pre-service teachers undertaking a Master of Teaching. It will analyse the distinctions between Digital Literacy (previously ICT) and Digital Technologies and explore how computers can be used, with a major focus on…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit investigates the links between language and culture, and the importance of considering and analysing the linguistic and cultural differences of learners within any learning and teaching context. In particular, you will explore three main themes. Firstly, you will…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Winter school |
Cultural Awareness: The Non-indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander interface
DetailsStudents are enabled to constructively consider the interface of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous issues, histories, cultures and perspectives in education, the curriculum and the ‘hidden curriculum’. The unit has four foci which are integrated: identity/ nationalism, history,…
Credit Points: 6.25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Winter school |
This capstone unit provides an opportunity for you to conceptualise an independent project of scholarly inquiry that enables you to bridge your academic study with your professional career. You will critically reflect on knowledge and experiences covered in your degree…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Summer school |
Professional Experience
The second Professional Experience placement (PE2) provides pre-service teachers the opportunity to build on their understanding of the school context and to begin to apply their theoretical understanding of teaching in practice. PE2 primarily involves active observation, discussions with the…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT522 Professional Experience 1 (Secondary)
The first Professional Experience (PE1) provides pre-service teachers the opportunity to become familiar with the school context. PE1 primarily involves active observation, discussions with the colleague teacher and initial school experiences. This placement is undertaken in Semester 2 only, in…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT528 Professional Experience 2 (Secondary)
The third Professional Experience (PE3) in the Master of Teaching (Secondary) course provides students with the opportunity to increase their familiarity with the school context, and to further develop their understanding of teaching practice in relation to the Australian Professional…
Credit Points: 0
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT624 Professional Experience 3 (Secondary)
Specialisation
First teaching specialisation
Arts (teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit will introduce you to key theories and research praxis in the field of arts education. Beginning with an exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of the role and value of the arts in civil society, you will examine the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit focuses on multiple facets of the overall professional practice of secondary Arts teachers. It will explore and build on the knowledge and experience you gained in the successful completion of EMT552 and will enable you to critically examine…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 |
Double Arts (Teaching specialisation)
Units
As the introductory unit of the secondary Arts education specialisation, this unit focuses on exploring the role of the Arts educator, developing skills in reflective practice in Arts education, and creating an individualised pathway towards your professional practice. The unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT551 The Arts Educator: Pathways to Professional Practice
This unit will focus on partnerships as the driver for authentic and quality Arts education. This includes an exploration of partnerships with teachers of other Arts and non-Arts subjects, within school-based co-curricular activities, with respect to the Australian Curriculum crosscurricular…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 |
English (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit is designed to provide you with the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to be a proficient secondary English teacher. This unit explores the ways in which adolescents learn to read, write, and communicate in English at…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT515 English Studies in Secondary School
This unit is designed to help you further develop your knowledge and skills for the teaching of English. With a focus on secondary and senior secondary curriculum, this unit covers an examination of curriculum goals and content, text selection, program…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT610 Advanced English Studies in Secondary and Senior Secondary School
Humanities and Social Sciences (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of the key subject disciplines, History and Geography, in the secondary school. Students will learn about key aspects of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding and skills and begin to…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT540 Introduction to Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
This unit extends students' understanding of teaching and learning in Humanities and Social Sciences in the secondary school years, building on content from EMT540. The unit develops students’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the Civics and Citizenship and Business and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT640 Advanced Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
Languages (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit will support you to gain the theoretical understandings, skills and methodologies to provide learning and teaching experiences within the Languages domain. You will be required to develop a comprehensive and coherent base of theoretical understandings upon which to…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT517 Languages Teaching Methodologies
This is the second of two sequential Languages curriculum units. In this unit, you will build upon knowledge gained in the previous unit, design teaching units for Languages learning and consider your role, as teacher, in this process. This will…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT617 Planning and Assessing Languages
Mathematics (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit is the first of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching mathematics and numeracy in the secondary years. EMT525 addresses the Year 7-12 curriculum and its implementation, with a particular focus on…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT525 Teaching the 7-12 Mathematics Curriculum
Each of EMT625 and EMT627 is the second of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching high school mathematics and numeracy, with EMT625 focussing on the 7-12 curriculum and EMT627 focussing on Grades 7-9.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT625 Grade 7 - 12 Students as Mathematics Learners
Science (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit serves as an introduction to the theory, methods and practice of teaching science in the first four years of secondary schools (years 7-10) and the senior secondary school/college (years 11-12). Particular emphasis is given to the consideration of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT530 Introduction to Secondary Science Education
This unit builds on the knowledge and skills developed in the previous unit, EMT530, but focuses more deeply on science education in complex and authentic contexts, including the demands of the senior science syllabi (years 11 & 12). Further development…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT630 Senior Secondary Science Pedagogy
Second teaching specialisation
Arts (teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit will introduce you to key theories and research praxis in the field of arts education. Beginning with an exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of the role and value of the arts in civil society, you will examine the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 2 |
This unit focuses on multiple facets of the overall professional practice of secondary Arts teachers. It will explore and build on the knowledge and experience you gained in the successful completion of EMT552 and will enable you to critically examine…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 |
Double Arts (Teaching specialisation)
Units
As the introductory unit of the secondary Arts education specialisation, this unit focuses on exploring the role of the Arts educator, developing skills in reflective practice in Arts education, and creating an individualised pathway towards your professional practice. The unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT551 The Arts Educator: Pathways to Professional Practice
This unit will focus on partnerships as the driver for authentic and quality Arts education. This includes an exploration of partnerships with teachers of other Arts and non-Arts subjects, within school-based co-curricular activities, with respect to the Australian Curriculum crosscurricular…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 |
English (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit is designed to provide you with the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to be a proficient secondary English teacher. This unit explores the ways in which adolescents learn to read, write, and communicate in English at…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT515 English Studies in Secondary School
This unit is designed to help you further develop your knowledge and skills for the teaching of English. With a focus on secondary and senior secondary curriculum, this unit covers an examination of curriculum goals and content, text selection, program…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT610 Advanced English Studies in Secondary and Senior Secondary School
Humanities and Social Sciences (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of the key subject disciplines, History and Geography, in the secondary school. Students will learn about key aspects of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding and skills and begin to…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT540 Introduction to Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
This unit extends students' understanding of teaching and learning in Humanities and Social Sciences in the secondary school years, building on content from EMT540. The unit develops students’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the Civics and Citizenship and Business and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT640 Advanced Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
Languages (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit will support you to gain the theoretical understandings, skills and methodologies to provide learning and teaching experiences within the Languages domain. You will be required to develop a comprehensive and coherent base of theoretical understandings upon which to…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT517 Languages Teaching Methodologies
This is the second of two sequential Languages curriculum units. In this unit, you will build upon knowledge gained in the previous unit, design teaching units for Languages learning and consider your role, as teacher, in this process. This will…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT617 Planning and Assessing Languages
Mathematics (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit is the first of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching mathematics and numeracy in the secondary years. EMT525 addresses the Year 7-12 curriculum and its implementation, with a particular focus on…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT525 Teaching the 7-12 Mathematics Curriculum
Each of EMT625 and EMT627 is the second of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching high school mathematics and numeracy, with EMT625 focussing on the 7-12 curriculum and EMT627 focussing on Grades 7-9.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT625 Grade 7 - 12 Students as Mathematics Learners
Science (Teaching specialisation)
Units
This unit serves as an introduction to the theory, methods and practice of teaching science in the first four years of secondary schools (years 7-10) and the senior secondary school/college (years 11-12). Particular emphasis is given to the consideration of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EMT530 Introduction to Secondary Science Education
This unit builds on the knowledge and skills developed in the previous unit, EMT530, but focuses more deeply on science education in complex and authentic contexts, including the demands of the senior science syllabi (years 11 & 12). Further development…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EMT630 Senior Secondary Science Pedagogy
Core Option
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Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for EDP501 Planning for Practice-Focused Mentoring
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
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EDP502 Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit introduces you to a range of theoretical approaches for facilitating learning, and relates these to contemporary educational practices. As a result of studying this unit, you will understand why contemporary education is focused on learning and understanding, rather…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EDP504 Contemporary Educational Perspectives
This unit will establish the skills and knowledge to enable students to acknowledge their independent educational identity, and contextualize this within both their current educational or workplace environment as well as their broader community. The concepts of collegial constructive criticism…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 2 |
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
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Online | Semester 1 |
View all details for EDP701 Understanding Educational Inquiry
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
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EDP705 Negotiated Study 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
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EDP706 Leadership and Advocacy 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
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View all details for EDP707 Literacy, Mathematics and Science in Early Childhood
This unit is designed for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education Graduate Certificate (Early Childhood), specialising in teaching children aged birth to 8 years. This unit interrogates current early childhood curricula and pedagogies. Topics include planning using relevant state,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EDP708 Curriculum Pedagogy and Assessment in Early Childhood
This unit is aligned to the Building a Feedback Culture professional learning program from the Department of Education Tasmania, Professional Learning Institute (PLI) and successful completion of this program is a prerequisite for enrolment into this unit. The program is…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit is aligned to the Principal Preparation Program (formerly titled Shadowing for Aspiring Principals) professional learning delivered by the Professional Learning Institute (PLI) - Department of Education, Children and Young People (DEYCP), Tasmania. The nationally recognised program takes account…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Summer school |
The aim of this unit is for leaders to examine the complexity of leadership in a period of rapid and disruptive change, and to develop their self-understanding of personal leadership behaviours. The unit analyses the nexus between management and leadership…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Summer school |
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
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View all details for EDP712 Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
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
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Online | Semester 2 |
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…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for EDP714 Leading Organisational Improvement
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
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Online | Semester 1 |
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
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Online | Semester 2 |
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
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View all details for EDP719 Methodologies in Second Language Teaching
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
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View all details for EDP720 Linguistics and Language Analysis
In this unit you will be investigating significant issues connected to second language learning. There will be a focus on topics that are of global interest and relevance to teachers of TESOL and how these aspects may be relevant to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for EDP721 Global Issues in Second Language Acquisition
This is an independent study project that requires the completion of an extended piece of writing such as a monograph, curriculum development document, professional development program, video, digital media output, or journal article for refereed publication. The design of the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 2 |
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
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for EDP725 Educating Students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
The aim of this unit is to engage in action research to reflect on and improve your own practice. Action research is an evidence-based approach to improving teaching practice and in this unit, you will integrate practice, action, theory and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for EDP727 Improving Teaching and Practice Through Action Research
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
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View all details for ESM742 Inclusive Educational Technology
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