Advance your teaching career
Are you ready to advance your teaching career through professional learning?
Become the educator you want to be
Gain expertise and insight, strengthen, and focus your professional teaching practice with our Professional Honours, Graduate Certificate and Master coursework programs.
Our programs are designed to meet the professional learning needs of educators and trainers, and offer pathways to independent postgraduate research or professional enquiry into practice.
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Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours
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Professional development opportunities
Take advantage of professional development opportunities that provide supported university study with scholarship options.
We encourage you to review your eligibility for the following programs:
Study options that work with you
We understand how busy teaching professionals are: that’s why our courses offer the flexibility to study online, to your own schedule of one or multiple units per semester, and options to undertake study of traditional semester periods.
Areas of Study
Our selection of coursework units are constantly being renewed to engage with contemporary developments in education and the changing needs of education professionals.
Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours
Graduate coursework entry for those wishing to undertake enquiry across multiple areas of specialisation and curriculum. Postgraduate units can be selected from a range of study areas.



Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours (Specialisation)
Graduate coursework entry for those wishing to undertake focused enquiry by specialisation in: Applied Learning, Early Childhood, Inclusive Education, Leadership or TESOL.
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Inclusive Education
Learn and develop your education practice and theory in re-engaging students, adaptive physicality, applied behaviour, dyslexia, learning difficulties, autism and the use of inclusive education technologies.
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TESOL
Learn and develop expertise in educational practices and perspectives in teaching with students whose first language is a language other than English. Subjects include language awareness, culture and diversity, methodologies and curriculum design.
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Leadership
Extend and update your knowledge on leadership practice and understanding, including risk management and governance, building of cultures and performance, strategy, systems and operations.
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Early Childhood
Learn to support and enhance the learning and development of young children. Early childhood educators work from birth to the age of 7 years (Grade 2) in various early learning environments including Early Childhood education and care centres, kindergartens, early learning centres, and teach into the early years of Primary schooling.
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Applied Learning
Gain educational knowledge and skill development that works with your technical and trade expertise for those in vocational education and training organisations, including TAFEs, polytechnics and RTOs.
Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours (Specialisation – Applied Learning)
Graduate Pathway
By undertaking a Professional Honours with the University of Tasmania you are able to accelerate your future study options into a Graduate Certificate and Masters by Coursework degree offerings.
Entrants begin their studies through their chosen Professional Honours program, and can ‘exit’ with a Graduate Certificate or continue their coursework studies with a Master of Education.
A sample study plan for these options is below.
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