Master of Teaching (Secondary)

Course overview

Overview

Learn to teach with world-leading experts and well-supported placements

Prepare for a career teaching 12-18-year-olds with the Master of Teaching (Secondary) at Melbourne. Learn from world-leading experts, all of whom have experience teaching in schools. Develop your practical classroom skills through the most comprehensive teaching placement program in Victoria. You will graduate ready to identify and support the individual learning needs of every student in your classroom.

Key features

1. Become a secondary teacher. Register with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) to teach across all secondary years. You will be qualified to teach two learning areas and introduced to a third, to expand your knowledge and employability.
2. Access an unparalleled placement experience. Become an active member of your placement school community from semester one, with support from a school-based Mentor Teacher and a university-based Clinical Specialist.
3. Take advantage of guaranteed entry and accelerated study options. Domestic students with a University of Melbourne bachelors degree can access early admission and a Commonwealth Supported Place, while Year 12 students can secure their place with a Graduate Degree Package. Students can also choose to graduate in 1.5 years through our Accelerated Mode option.

Why study secondary teaching at Melbourne?

The Faculty of Education at Melbourne is a vibrant learning environment where you will join a community committed to changing lives through education.

The Master of Teaching (Secondary) draws on the latest in education research and practice.

1. Evaluate learners' needs. You will learn how to evaluate individual learning needs across all backgrounds and abilities, so you can meet every student where they're at.
2. Establish a holistic practice. Support your teaching practice with skills like establishing safe environments and promoting positive behaviours, to nurture wellbeing for yourself and your students.
3. Explore Indigenous perspectives. Build a greater understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being, so you can develop inclusive learning activities in your classroom.

The Faculty of Education at Melbourne is a vibrant learning environment where you will join a community committed to changing lives through education.

The Master of Teaching (Secondary) draws on the latest in education research and practice.

1. Evaluate learners' needs. You will learn how to evaluate individual learning needs across all backgrounds and abilities, so you can meet every student where they're at.
2. Establish a holistic practice. Support your teaching practice with skills like establishing safe environments and promoting positive behaviours, to nurture wellbeing for yourself and your students.
3. Explore Indigenous perspectives. Build a greater understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being, so you can develop inclusive learning activities in your classroom.

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