Education and Teaching

• Education and Teaching at Deakin
• Our courses
• Special features of our courses
• Career opportunities
• Further information

Education and Teaching at Deakin

Deakin's School of Education is a leading Australian provider of teacher education, offering specialised courses that inspire and prepare graduates for teaching excellence.

With equal emphasis on professional knowledge and practical experience, we maintain strong links with regional communities and schools. Our school-based learning programs, teaching practicums and global teaching options ensure that graduates are ready to teach today, for tomorrow.

As well as flexible course delivery with rural, community or city-based programs, we have a long-standing commitment to education as a public need. Underpinned by a core education studies major, our programs offer a broad range of discipline study options with the opportunity to develop an area of specialisation. Our staff have diverse discipline expertise and our programs provide graduates with marketable skills for a variety of educational settings.

Our courses

The School of Education offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in many areas including:

• early childhood, primary and secondary teaching,
• adult education and literacy,
• arts education,
• curriculum and administration studies,
• language and literacy education,
• mathematics education,
• health and physical education,
• information technology education,
• professional education and training,
• science education,
• social education,
• special educational needs,
• flexible, online and distance education,
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching Languages Other Than English (TLOTE)
• workplace and vocational education and training.

We have teaching courses suitable for commencement as your first degree, or courses which can be undertaken to complement existing qualifications, to become a certified teacher.

We offer undergraduate courses providing primary and secondary teaching qualifications, and more specifically, the Bachelor of Health and Physical Education, qualifying graduates as physical educations teachers in secondary schools and the Bachelor of Teaching (Science), preparing you for a career in science education. We also have courses covering applied learning, Koorie teacher education and Languages Other then English (LOTE)

Our postgraduate teaching qualifications include the Graduate Diploma of Education (Applied Learning), designed to train teachers in specialist secondary teaching areas and also to prepare them to teach with an applied and vocational learning orientation.

The Graduate Certificate of Higher Education is designed to meet the requirements for credentialing tertiary teaching for academic staff.

The Graduate Certificate and Master in Professional Education and Training is offered to professional educators and trainers working or intending to work in learning and development, education and training, and human resource development roles.

The Graduate Certificate and Masters in Special Educational Needs is a teacher education course focusing on professional studies in special education.

Teaching streams are also available as higher degree by research programs.

View a list of teaching courses for:

• local students
• international students

Special features of our courses

Industry learning
The education studies major (sequence of compulsory education units in all pre-service teaching courses) has been developed in consultation with principals, teachers and the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

Deakin's strong partnerships with the education industry ensure that our courses remain relevant and students learn from lecturers with specialist skills developed by their work with outside agencies, their research and community involvement. Our professional experience program allows you to spend time working in schools with children, alongside experienced teachers.

Overseas study
The Global Experience Program offers you school experiences in a variety of locations including Thailand, Vanuatu, Canada, China, Malaysia, India and the Northern Territory. The program can also be included in your professional experience program.

The School of Education also actively participates in an undergraduate study abroad program with exchanges organised between Deakin and participating overseas universities.

Professional accreditation
Deakin's teaching courses are accredited with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT), which ensures that graduates will be eligible to apply for registration as teachers in Victoria and throughout Australia.

Career opportunities

Depending on the course undertaken, Deakin teaching graduates are prepared to pursue a range of career opportunities, in the classroom and beyond, including primary schools from prep to grade 6 and/or secondary schools from junior secondary to VCE level - both in Australia and overseas, government departments, human resource management, private academies and agencies, sports, recreation and fitness industries, TAFE and Adult and Community Education ( ACE ), youth support agencies, group training, companies, new apprenticeship centres, employment support agencies, career and vocational counselling, preschools, family day care, hospitals and kindergartens.

Further information

For further information visit the School of Education.

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