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Education (Primary)
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Education (Primary)

Australian Catholic University (Blacktown)
SydneyAustralia
On campus
Full-time
€16,462.53/year
Duration
4 Years
Language
English
Apply date
Jul 2024

Program Description

As a primary teacher, you will have a creative, challenging, and rewarding career helping and inspiring children to develop important lifelong skills. You will become adept at managing social, cultural, and developmental diversity. You can choose from a range of subject areas in English, mathematics, health and physical education, Indigenous education, languages (Spanish or Italian), science and technologies, religious education, and arts.

These subject areas enable the development of deep knowledge and highly effective classroom teaching. By selecting religious education and/or theology units, you will be eligible to teach in Catholic and other faith-based schools.

There may be additional costs by this University.

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Curriculum

Year 1

Understanding Learning and Teaching

Educational Thought

Foundations of Literacy

Digital Cultures and Capabilities

Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges, Histories, and Cultures

Understanding Learners and Their Contexts

Children's Literature for Early Reading

Science in Our World

Year 2

Effective Teaching 1: Becoming a Teacher

The Arts Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

English Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1

Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students

Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students

Effective Teaching 2: Curriculum, Planning and Pedagogy

Mathematics Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1

English Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 2

Choose one of the following:
Introduction to the Bible
Health Studies and Movement Education

Choose one of the following:
What Christians Believe
Creative Arts with Children

Year 3

Effective Teaching 3: Engaging Learners and Managing Learning Environments

Exploring Mathematics and Numeracy

Science Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

Technologies Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

Choose one of the following:
Religious Education Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1
Educating for a Sustainable Future

Choose one of the following:
Justice and Change in a Global World
The Just Society

Choose one of the following:
Religious Education Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 2
Literacy and Diversity Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

Year 4

Effective Teaching 4: Students with Disability and Inclusive Education

Mathematics Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 2

Effective Teaching 5: Assessment and Data Informed Practice

Effective Teaching 6: Professional Engagement and Reflection

Professional Communication

Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

Choose one of the following:
Comparative Education: Local and Global Contexts
Engaging with Global Communities Personal Professional Learning in International Education Contexts

Choose one of the following:
Christian Symbol, Ritual and Sacrament
Alternative Science Conceptions: What, Why, and How

Careers

  • Primary school education
  • Policy development
  • Community centre education
  • Private colleges
  • Inclusive education settings
  • Adult education
  • Education and training roles in other sectors – e.g. zoos
  • Correction facilities for youth or adults
  • Research
  • Special education
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