The Master of Teaching suite of courses is structured to provide you with relevant, up-to-date learning designed to prepare you to teach in your chosen school sector.

This course includes several types of units you will study. Units in these areas are designed to support your development over the course of your studies.

• Education Studies
  Foundational knowledge and skills units that support you to meet professional standards and expectations of teachers.
• Effective Teaching
  Professional practice units that build your skills and experience in teaching and learning in your chosen sector/s.
• Content, Curriculum and Pedagogy
  Developing content knowledge in relevant teaching areas alongside pedagogical knowledge specific to teaching and learning for each relevant teaching area.

Unit prerequisites are designed to ensure that your learning progresses smoothly.

Some units have prerequisites listed within the unit outline. This is a list of the units or activities that you must complete before you can study that unit.

To meet the prerequisites for a unit, you must have either completed the prerequisites, or be currently enrolled in the prerequisite. This means that you can enrol in a unit in Semester 2 so long as you are enrolled in any prerequisite unit required in Semester 1.

It is a regulatory requirement that all graduates from an initial teaching qualification must either pass the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Educators (LaNTITE) or meet the Australian First Nations language proficiency alternative.

ACU has processes in place to ensure that all students meet the regulatory requirements. You will need to (1) attempt LaNTITE within the first six months of an Education course , and (2) pass LaNTITE before the end of your first 12 months (before your second placement unit).

Please self-enrol in the Education LaNTITE Support site for up-to-date information about the LaNTITE requirement and links to support provided by ACU.

Please see the ACER website for information about the LaNTITE tests

LaNTITE Progression Requirements

There are two LaNTITE requirements that you must complete on time to avoid a delay in your course progression. These requirements cannot be waivered and if you do not complete them, your progress will be delayed as specific units will be unavailable to you.

Community Engagement

All ACU undergraduate students engage in a Community Engagement unit as part of the 'Common Core'.

Community engagement is central to ACU’s commitment to developing graduates who recognise the dignity of the human person and can engage critically with societal issues that advance the common good.

Please check your course map for the location of this unit. You may find it in either Semester 1 or Semester 2. You will note that your community engagement unit is not offered in the same semester as a professional experience unit. Students should not enrol in a community engagement and a professional experience unit in the same semester. 

Your allocated Community Engagement unit is EDES206 Social Justice and Community Engagement for Teachers

Your community engagement placement will be managed via InPlace. Information about InPlace is available on the WIL site.

Professional Experience

This course includes an introductory observation unit, followed by a sequence of three Professional Experience Placement (PEP) units.

Professional Experience placements provide you with the opportunity to integrate your learning with real-world experience of the work of teachers. Each of these units include (1) lectures and tutorials, and (2) a placement experience within a school and/or early learning service. These experiences are interrelated and you must complete them both within the same semester offering.  

To support your enrolment planning, the calendar of placement dates is published in October of the year prior. The PEP placement dates are available on the WIL site. You must confirm that you are available to attend placement during the listed dates prior to enrolling in a placement unit.

All guidelines and information related to the Professional Experience Program is available on the WIL site. You should familiarise yourself with all the information in this site prior to your first professional experience placement. 

Your first year observation unit is:

• EDES106 Contemporary Learning Cultures and Contexts

Your four placement units are:

• EDET595 Effective Teaching 1: Professional Practices (25 days)
• EDET695 Effective Teaching 2: Engaging Learners (25 days)
• EDET696 Effective Teaching 3: Teacher Inquiry and Evidence-based Practice (30 days)

Note: The number of places available in some teaching areas may be limited by the availability of appropriate professional experience placements and the capacity of partner schools to support preservice teachers.