Overview

The Master of Teaching (Birth to 5) provides graduates with the specialist knowledge and skills necessary to enter the early childhood teaching profession with confidence and competence, preparing graduates to work with young children aged birth-to-five years. You will gain knowledge of curriculum studies and theories of education and undertake … For more content click the Read More button below.

Course offerings

Bedford Park
Flinders Online

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Program of study
72 Units

Year 136 Units
Year 236 Units

Admission requirements

Admission requirements
Inherent requirements
English Language requirements

Aims

The course specialisation aims to qualify graduates who apply a specialised body of content and pedagogical knowledge, skills and dispositions to:

  • Plan, implement and advocate transformative teaching and learning in the field of early childhood education
  • Enact policies and practices that take account of social and individual difference, ensuring that all children learn in supportive and just environments
  • Work independently and collaboratively with children, colleagues and communities to construct and assess inclusive and intellectually challenging play-based learning for children aged birth to 5 years
  • Engage in critical reflection and continuing professional learning through a variety of pathways including inquiry-led and research-based projects
  • Understand the importance of all children learning about, and through, Indigenous ways of knowing and being

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course you will be able to:
1.
Synthesise in-depth, current knowledge and an integrated understanding of the theories, content and processes of learning and teaching in the field of early childhood education
2.
Articulate advanced knowledge and reflexivity regarding children's development and individual and social differences, including for Indigenous Australians
3.
Apply the cognitive, technical and creative skills and dispositions to create and maintain mutually respectful and socially just learning environments for children aged birth to 5 years
4.
Communicate respectfully with babies, young children, colleagues, parents and communities to enhance professional practice and children’s learning in the field of early childhood education
5.
Apply the cognitive, technical and creative skills to construct and assess inclusive and challenging curriculum for children aged birth to 5 years
6.
Demonstrate and apply sound knowledge of research principles and methods to execute an inquiry-led and research- based project in early childhood education
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Commit to ongoing professional learning to do with new discourses, debates, leadership and issues in education as they arise in the field of early childhood education
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Demonstrate dispositions towards relational and transformative education and a strong sense of themselves as agents, advocates and leading professionals in the field of early childhood education
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Develop a deep understanding of Indigenous cultures and pedagogies and how to weave these through children’s everyday play and learning experiences

Student progression rules

The award of a grade of Fail (F) on more than one occasion in the same core topic, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.

Except with the permission of the Dean (Education):

  • Teaching practicum topics may not be attempted more than once

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