Master of Teaching (Secondary) / Graduate Certificate in Religious Education

Course Details

Transform your work and life experience into a teaching career. Graduate ready to design and implement engaging and flexible learning experiences to inspire and positively influence young people. This is a graduate entry, initial teacher education course for those who want to teach in secondary schools. Whether you are looking for a complete career change or are a recent graduate, your undergraduate degree will form the foundations for your specialist teaching areas in this course. Combining the Graduate Certificate in Religious Education with the Master of Teaching (secondary) means you will gain the certification and knowledge to teach Religious Education in Catholic Schools alongside two other teaching areas. Learn the craft of teaching from highly experienced mentor teachers in a range of educational contexts.

Qualification: Master Degree (By Coursework)

Course structure: 190 credit points. Students must complete a minimum of 60 days professional experience during which time they are required to be available full-time. The Professional Experience program consists of a minimum of 10 weeks of teaching rounds, usually broken into three blocks. Professional experience covers all school and community-based experience designed to help students develop professional competence and personal commitment, in accordance with the expressed Catholic philosophy of the University. The professional experience units apply skills, techniques and processes taught in the Foundations Studies and Professional Studies units. 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 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.