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

Intended learning outcomes

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

• Use evidence to make sound clinical judgments about the nature and implementation of teaching interventions.
• Be highly-skilled teachers who demonstrate the professional capabilities to meet the individual needs of diverse learners using interventionist practices.
• Generate and analyse diverse sources of data that can effectively inform and assess student learning and development.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which theory and research informs practice.
• Plan and execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship.
• Demonstrate strong subject and pedagogical content knowledge.
• Demonstrate the level of competency in literacy and numeracy expected of the teaching profession.
• Utilise diverse pedagogical strategies to provide rich and creative learning environments that empower learners.
• Utilise inclusive teaching practices that demonstrate an awareness of cultural diversity and its implications for society and education.
• Utilise digital technologies to expand learning opportunities for students.
• Develop in students the practices and attitudes required for critical thinking and the ability to work both independently and cooperatively.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of language as fundamental to education.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain effective, ethical and respectful relationships with all involved in the learning community..
• Effectively engage students, parents, community members, and professional colleagues to support student learning and development.
• Understand the impact of legislation, policy and the global human rights principles on their roles and responsibilities as teachers.
• Demonstrate a capacity for leadership and advocacy in education.

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.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of the complexity and diversity of students’ learning and development.
• Be expert in the disciplines they teach and committed to continual updating of their subject knowledge.
• Be able to intelligently and creatively plan, implement and critique mandated curriculum.
• Be able to use data to identify and address the learning needs and capacities of individual students.
• Be able to intentionally draw on a range of teaching practices to extend individual student’s learning and development.
• Shape and deliver responsive and inclusive curricula.
• Be a self-reflective teacher who can work constructively and innovatively through relationships with parents, colleagues and the community across a range of contexts.

Graduate attributes