Bachelor of Primary Education and Master of Secondary Teaching (Science)

The Bachelor of Primary Education and Master of Secondary Teaching is a combined award course that prepares you to become a teacher, eligible to teach in a range of primary or secondary schools. At CDU, you can study this innovative degree online or on campus, part time or full time. This makes it easier to fit study into your existing commitments. When you graduate, you'll be qualified to register as a teacher anywhere in Australia, with a combined award and the course can be completed in 4 years.

This flexible course focuses on the skills and knowledge that you will need to teach and meets both the national and local need for teachers. In this course you will learn about:

• the school curriculum
• contemporary approaches to issues in education, such as inclusivity
• child and adolescent development
• behaviour management and student wellbeing
• 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. 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.

On graduating, you will be eligible to register as a teacher in all states and territories in Australia, providing you meet all other requirements. Registration is currently being approved.