Primary Education and / Science

Prepare to teach in either primary or secondary schools with the Bachelor of Primary Education and Master of Secondary Teaching dual degree. This unique course will give you the flexibility to move between primary and secondary settings as your teaching career progresses without having to gain any other qualifications.

This course can be studied online or on campus, part-time or full-time. you can complete the course in as little as 4.5 years (or 4 years, depending on the subjects you choose), which is almost the same time it takes to complete a single undergraduate teaching degree.

During the course, you will apply your learning with professional experience in classrooms close to home or in unique placements in remote locations across the Northern Territory. You will expand your network for employment opportunities with placements across different stages of schooling.

In this course, you will learn practical skills and knowledge about:

• the school curriculum

• contemporary approaches to issues in education, such as inclusivity

• child and adolescent development

• expertise to cater to the diverse needs of students across different developmental stages

• improving the teaching-learning relationship in the classroom

• teaching First Nation learners

• developing an informed, evidence-based approach to learning and teaching

• becoming a secondary teacher in Science

The course is a mixture of discipline-specific curriculum and pedagogical studies, general education studies and professional experience (a minimum 80 days of supervised practice teaching across all stages of schooling must be completed). When you graduate, your levels of personal literacy and numeracy will be broadly equivalent to the top 30% of the Australian population.

Students are encouraged to review the employer eligibility requirements as they can vary state to state.

This course has been accredited through the Teacher Registration Board of the Northern Territory (TRB NT). It is consistent with the standards established by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) for the accreditation of Initial Teacher Education Programs (ITE) in Australia. Upon graduating, you will be eligible to register as a teacher across all Australian State and Territory jurisdictions (subject to meeting other eligibility criteria, such as National Literacy and Numeracy test for Initial Teacher Education as per Teacher Registration Requirement, English proficiency and suitability to teach).