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Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) (MC-TEACHEC) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
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Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Contact Stop 1
Future students:
Principal Coordinator
Jeanne Marie Iorio
Professional accreditation
Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority
The Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) is accredited by the Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority (ACECQA). Graduates may apply for registration as an early childhood teacher with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) and can work in Australian early childhood education and care settings with children aged birth to eight years.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of the Master of Teaching, graduates will have the capacity to make sound evidence-based clinical judgments, they will have achieved the requisite knowledge, skills and understanding to:
- Foreground Indigenous Worldviews to promote learner engagement that is inclusive and respectful of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities, organisations, knowledges and standpoints in education
- Reflect critically on the ways in which educational theory and research informs teaching practice
- Demonstrate strong subject and pedagogical content knowledge to create productive learning environments that empower learners
- Interpret, design and implement relevant curriculum and pedagogy, integrating digital technologies and differentiating teaching to promote participation and inclusion of all students in their learning
- Design assessment tools and tasks and interpret data and evidence to make sound clinical judgments and reflect upon the effectiveness of teaching practice as well as the impact on learning outcomes
- Create and maintain safe and supportive learning environments using knowledge of evidence-based approaches to promote positive behaviours
- Establish and maintain ethical and respectful relationships with students, colleagues and parents/carers, working independently and collaboratively across the school/centre community
- Be advocates and leaders in education, responsive to social and political contexts promoting diversity, participation, access and inclusion
- Foster critical understandings of sustainability which advance ecologically minded citizenship
- Understand the role of the teacher as researcher through continuous professional learning and practitioner inquiry and research.
Generic skills
Master of Teaching graduates will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice
- Critical and creative thinking
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Learning to learn and metacognition
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
- Reflection for continuous improvement
- Linking theory and practice
- Inquiry and research
- Active and participatory citizenship.
- Ethical and intercultural understanding.
Graduate attributes
Graduates of the Master of Teaching will:
- Embody the standards of the teaching profession and support the development of teaching as a profession
- Be practitioners of clinical teaching, who teach for growth for all students using an inclusive, developmental, intervention-based approach that utilizes deep learning and evidence based strategies
- Be culturally and socially aware, able to establish respectful and ethical relationships with students, staff, parents and the broader school communities / early childhood centres
- Be creative, innovative, self-directed and life-long learners, able to link theory and practice and respond to a changing educational landscape.
Last updated: 13 February 2025