Overview
Achieve your dream of becoming a teacher – even if you missed selection for the Bachelor of Education. This education course prepares you to enter the second year of a teaching degree.
This teaching program has been designed for students who didn’t meet the entry requirements for the Bachelor of Education through the VTAC (or direct) selection process.
This Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) accredited education pathway course will help you build the skills needed for a career in education.
Progress to a bachelor degree
Successful completion earns you a place in the second year in one of these specialised courses:
- Bachelor of Education Studies: to lead learning programs outside the traditional classroom
- Bachelor of Early Childhood Education: to teach and care for children from birth to five years
- Bachelor of Arts: choose to study fine art, communication, digital media, history, sociology and more.
After completing additional requirements, you will also be eligible for:
- Bachelor of Education (P-12): to teach all age groups – from prep to Year 12
- Bachelor of Education (Primary): to teach in primary schools.
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Appraise a broad and coherent body of knowledge of in relation to the changing nature of education in a rapidly-evolving global context;
- Apply knowledge of educational issues to improve educational practices;
- Discuss a range of learning theories and identify how they enhance student learning;
- Develop students' capabilities and capacity in literacy and numeracy that enhance communication for academic contexts, including in the use of Information and Communication Technologies;
- Foster creative skills and thought processes so as to prepare to confront and pro-actively engage with 21st Century challenges;
- Develop contextual understandings of contemporary life in a global community, and collaborate with colleagues to promote principles of peace, sustainability, ethical conduct, and political and economic freedom;
- Articulate and review the concepts of inclusion, equity and access for socially just education;
- Investigate the changing nature of society to prepare for the development of educational policies and processes relevant to students’ needs.
If you continue to the Bachelor of Education (P-12), you’ll be job-ready before you graduate – thanks to your extensive experience teaching in a classroom.
You’ll be ready to work locally or overseas in a profession with increasing demand around the world.
Our teaching degrees offer exciting opportunities for professional experience through work placements, including:
- teaching in rural/remote locations
- overseas study tours in Malaysia, China, Timor Leste and more
- sports, literacy and leadership programs with sporting organisations including the Western Bulldogs
- mentoring school students in university-ready skills
- creative art projects.
Achieve your full potential with The Learning Hub, which help you develop your confidence, academic ability, and study skills.
Benefit from in-person mentoring and study sessions, along with a range of digital learning modules that you can access anytime.
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