General Information
This unique Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary) is designed to prepare
graduates from other disciplines to be eligible for registration and employment
as teachers in primary schools. Deakin’s highly relevant Graduate Diploma
of Teaching provides:
- The opportunity to be able to complete a full one-year post-graduate
course in two thirds the time of any other similar 8 credit-point course
(Nov-June)
- An environment where both locals and internationals interact within the
classroom for significantly greater shared learning and real world experience
- An opportunity for students to experience studying and teaching in different
educational settings
- A specialist qualification covering all areas in primary curriculum including
English, maths, science, arts, social ed., health & phys. ed. and technology.
- Responsiveness: the ability to be responsive to the requirements of schools
is an essential component and academics do this by constant contact with
teachers
- Relevance: Practising teachers have been consulted to ensure course content
is relevant for both local and international teachers and the course utilises
the most current research available
- The opportunity for graduates to apply early for positions within the
Victorian teaching system
- A course where international graduates can teach at primary level and
align their completion with school commencement year, in their home countries.
- Admission for non-Education degree students to the course
- Academics that are specialists in both teaching and educational research.
Course information
- The Graduate Diploma of Teaching is offered through intensive on-campus
mode at the Geelong campus at Waurn Ponds
- commencing in November each year and finishing in June of the following
year (8-month full-time course duration for applicants with four years
of tertiary study)
- Offered to international students and domestic full fee & CSP funded
students
- At least 45 days working in primary schools in a highly rewarding professional
experience program alongside experienced teachers in the class room
Course overview
The Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Primary) is one of the Faculty’s
core pre-service teacher education programs focusing on preparing graduates
from other disciplines to become eligible for registration and employment
as teachers in primary schools all over Australia and overseas. The course
aims to produce graduates who are “class room ready” and enter
educational practice with a degree that meets the Victorian Institute of
Teaching’s Professional Standards for Graduating Teachers.
For details on Course outline
/ Course structure / Unit descriptions / Admission requirements / Application
procedure /
etc see:
*School-based units plus tutorials, contributing to Semester minimum of
45 days school experience.
