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Overview
The Master of Teaching (Primary) is a graduate entry, pre-service teacher education course for those who want to qualify as a primary school teacher. Gain the critical knowledge and skills to become a reflective, independent, and flexible teacher, able to adapt in a complex contemporary classroom environment.
Building upon the knowledge you have already gained from your previous qualification; this course will engage you with the breadth of curriculum and pedagogical knowledge required to teach children from ages five to twelve.
You will graduate classroom-ready with specialist knowledge and understanding of not only literacy and numeracy but of all learning areas of the primary school curriculum. Forming the foundations for your specialist teaching areas, previous study and learning interests will inform your teaching specialisation in an area of the primary curriculum from these options:
- English and Literacy
- Mathematics and Numeracy
- Science
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- The Arts
- Technologies
- Health and Physical Education
Achieve your goals with a scholarship.
A generous Commonwealth Teaching Scholarship is available to support new undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolling in an initial teacher education (ITE) program to help meet the costs of their study. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply here.
Professional experience
Students must complete a minimum of 60 days professional experience during which time they are required to be available full-time.
Work placement
Professional experience units are planned as a specific sequence allowing for progressive development of both classroom-based proficiency and an understanding of the relevance of theory to practice and practice to theory. The practicum will be supported by other forms of in-school experiences, such as school-based tutorials and workshops.
Certain prerequisite or co-requisite units are required before students are placed in schools.
Supervised professional experience is at the heart of all our pre-service teacher education courses and the Faculty will find appropriate placements to suit the needs of your course. Placements will usually be arranged for the scheduled placement period in the professional experience calendar though this may not always be possible.
Professional recognition
Graduates are eligible for registration as a primary school teacher in government, independent, and Catholic schools or other faith-based schools. If you wish to teach in a Catholic primary school you will be required to have a Graduate Certificate in Religious Education qualification or equivalent (this may vary by diocese). You can study this concurrently with your master's degree at ACU.
Accreditation
This program has been listed on the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) accredited programs list.
Careers
Our graduates have pursued careers in:
- primary school education
- academia
- religious education
- education research
- play education specialist
- learning designer
- adult learning
- curriculum development
- education consulting
- government education policy making
Course details
Course structure
To complete the Master of Teaching (Primary), a student must complete 160 credit points (cp).
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Exit Points
A student who has successfully completed the following requirements may exit from the course with that qualification. Note that none of these qualifications qualify a student to teach in Australia.
1.Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies: 80 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings
2.Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies: 40 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings.
A student who does not meet the LANTITE requirements may exit with the Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies or Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies if they meet the requirements of those awards.