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Learning Outcomes
Graduates at this level will have advanced knowledge and skills for professional or highly skilled work and/or further learning.
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Knowledge Graduates at this level will have advanced theoretical and technical knowledge in one or more disciplines or areas of practice | 1. Knowledge - Graduates will know and understand:
5. Professional Learning - Graduates will:
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Skills Graduates at this level will have advanced cognitive, technical and communication skills to select and apply methods and technologies to:
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4. Communication, Collaboration and Leadership - Graduates will:
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Application of knowledge and skills Graduates at this level will apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy, well-developed judgement, adaptability and responsibility as a practitioner or learner0 | 3. Application of Knowledge and Skills - Graduates will:
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Course structure
The Master of Education consists of a series of core units, plus any seven (7) postgraduate Education units within your chosen specialisation.
Core 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
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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
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for ESM708 Improving Teaching and Practice through Action Research
ESG706 is a major piece of independent research work, suitable for candidates seeking further entry to Higher Degree Research (such as Ed.D. or PhD). Candidates are required to work with a supervisor to plan and implement a research study or…
Credit Points: 25
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Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
ESG704 Dissertation Part A and ESG705 Dissertation Part B together require the completion of a major piece of independent research work, suitable for candidates seeking further entry to Higher Degree Research (such as Ed.D. or PhD). Candidates are required to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
ESG704 Dissertation Part A and ESG705 Dissertation Part B together require the completion of a major piece of independent research work, suitable for candidates seeking further entry to Higher Degree Research (such as Ed.D. or PhD). Candidates are required to…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
Choose from one of the following Specialisations
Applied Learning
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESM710 Leading Organisational Improvement
Inclusive Education
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
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Term 1 |
View all details for EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings
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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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
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Launceston | Term 1 |
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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Launceston | Term 2 |
View all details for ESM747 Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
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
Leadership
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
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, 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.
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.
This unit provides health and human service professionals with the opportunity to critically analyse a range of contemporary leadership frameworks and theories. There is a focus on the exploration and practical application of theories and techniques to improve understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM539 Leadership in Health and Human Services
This broad unit introduces students to the interrelationship between health law and ethics, strategic planning, financial resource management and health policy development. It aims to help students develop a clear understanding of the dynamics of the healthcare environment and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM620 Management in Health and Human Services
This unit examines current concepts, trends and barriers in risk, risk management and governance including clinical governance. In particular it explores the content and relationship between medico-legal issues; clinical error; consumer rights and services; occupational health systems; quality of service…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
This unit explores the nature of change within the broader environmental and organisational context. It will include exploration of current theories and research around issues relating to leading and managing change as well as diffusion of innovation. Strategies for successful…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM722 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services
TESOL
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
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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
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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
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESG717 Methodologies in Second Language Teaching
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.
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
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for ESG719 TESOL Futures and Digital Technologies
This unit provides an opportunity for you to explore a range of issues related to the development of mathematics curricula. You will engage with current developments in the area and examine the factors that affect the development of mathematics curricula…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESG723 Curriculum Development in School Mathematics
Entry requirements
Eligibility
Interested in studying the Master of Education (Specialisation), you will need to meet the following requirements:
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.
This course is available to graduates in teacher education, graduates from other disciplines with a Diploma of Education, Bachelor of Teaching, or Master of Teaching, or to those holding equivalent qualifications. Graduates from non-education courses with extensive relevant work experience are also eligible to undertake this course.
Articulation from
Completed undergraduate education and teacher education courses and postgraduate study in a Graduate Certificate in Education.
Articulation to
Articulation from this course to Masters by Research, Doctorate in Education (EdD) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
Alternative entry pathways
An alternative pathway to a Master of Education for domestic students is available on a Commonwealth Supported (CSP) basis for the first eight units through one of the Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours courses:
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).
Domestic students enrolled in certain postgraduate coursework programs may not be eligible for student payments through Youth Allowance and Austudy. Visit the Department of Social Services website to find out more about eligibility for Centrelink support and the list of eligible courses
International students
2021 Total Course Fee (international students): $ 46,967 AUD *.
Course cost based on a rate of $30,950 AUD per standard, full-time year of study (100 credit points).
* Please note that this is an indicative fee only.
International students
International students are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the annual rate. International students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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