Master of Teaching (Secondary) (MC-TEACHSR) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this course graduates will have the knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to:

• Be highly-skilled teachers, with the theoretical frameworks and practical ability to produce effective learning for each individual student.
• Be engaged intelligently and passionately in the educational venture, and have the ability not only to adapt to, but also to lead change.
• Articulate a coherent set of beliefs about learning and teaching, based soundly on leading-edge theory and evidence-based research.
• Display a solid understanding of discipline knowledge and knowledge about education, and of how they interact in effective pedagogy.
• Understand the links between planning, teaching and evaluating for learning.
• Plan for students' teaching and learning bringing to bear an informed awareness of child and adolescent development.
• Generate and interpret the classroom data to enable individualized programming of developmental learning for each student.
• Respond flexibly in catering for the different learning needs of individual students, including those with special needs.
• Utilise a range of teaching approaches that foster both independent and cooperative learning.
• Structure their teaching to provide rich and creative learning environments.
• Develop in their students the capacity for vigorous but respectful critique and for curiosity in learning.
• Demonstrate an awareness of cultural diversity and its implications for society and education.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of written and spoken language as fundamental to education.
• Utilise a variety of technologies in the classroom to assist learning.
• Function effectively across the various relationships involved in the professional life of a teacher.
• Demonstrate the level of competency in literacy and numeracy expected of the teaching profession.
• Be leaders and advocates in education, responsive to legislation, policy and the global human rights issues of participation, access and inclusion.

Generic skills

• Understand Secondary education as part of a spectrum of learning and development, linked to primary schooling and to post-schooling outcomes of further study and/or employment.
• Have a thorough understanding of the particular needs of students in the middle years of schooling.
• Be expert in the disciplines they teach and committed to continual updating of their discipline knowledge;
• Mediate knowledge of the discipline for their students knowledge through appropriate pedagogy.
• Be able to intelligently and creatively plan, implement and critique mandated curriculum.

Graduate attributes