2015 Course Enrolment Guide
Faculty of Education and Arts
Canberra Campus (ACT)
Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Master of Teaching (Secondary) /
Graduate Certificate in Religious Education
Information last updated on 23 January 2015
Students should note that Course Enrolment Guides are updated regularly.
Check the website for the latest updates.
This Guide is provided to assist you to select your units for the 2015 academic
year. Specific information regarding unit outlines, assessments or content will be
provided by your Faculty/School.
Course Coordinators and/or Course Advisors will be available to assist with enrolment and re-enrolment. You
can telephone, email or contact them in person to make an appointment.
Course Coordinator:
Room:
Associate Professor Catherine McLoughlin
Blackfriars Building, Room B84
Email:
Telephone:
[email protected]
(02) 62091132
Master of Teaching (Secondary) - Canberra
2015
Table of Contents
1. How to use this Guide..................................................................................................................................... 2
2. Program Map .................................................................................................................................................. 3
3. Units Offered in 2015 ...................................................................................................................................... 5
4. Program Information ....................................................................................................................................... 9
5. Enrolment ..................................................................................................................................................... 12
6. Course Completions ..................................................................................................................................... 12
1. How to use this Guide
This Course Enrolment Guide 2015 provides you with information on when and where the units available
for study in this program(s) will be offered in 2015.
Enrolling in units for 2015
1. Read Section 2. ‘Program Maps’ for information on course structure and unit sequence. Take note of any
prerequisite or co-requisite requirements before selecting particular units. Take note of the study period in
which units are offered.
A prerequisite is a requirement that must be met by a student before enrolment in a stipulated unit. It is
your responsibility to ensure that you meet the prerequisites for a unit prior to enrolling into that unit.
A co-requisite is a requirement that must be met by having already passed or being concurrently
enrolled in an associated unit in order to be able to enrol in the stipulated unit.
If you wish to enrol into a unit for which you have not met the prerequisite or co-requisite requirements,
please obtain approval from your Course Coordinator.
2. Refer to Section 3. ‘Elective Units and Additional Offerings in 2015’ to select your Elective units.
3. Refer to Section 4. Program Information’ for further information on course structure and requirements.
4. You must refer to Administration & Enrolment on the ACU website
(http://students.acu.edu.au/332297) for information on how to complete your enrolment via Student
Connect. ‘Administration & Enrolment’ also provides detailed information on managing your studies.
5. Log on to Student Connect and enrol (http://students.acu.edu.au/136953). Student Connect is a web
interface allowing students to complete their ACU enrolment online.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Failure to enrol or re-enrol before the published due dates for re-enrolment on the ACU website
(http://students.acu.edu.au/381148) may result in late fee penalties.
Even if you are unsure of what units you need to enrol in, please ensure that you enrol or re-enrol in
at least one unit before the due date. Enrolling in at least one unit by the due date will enable you to
add further units, or amend your enrolment via Student Connect up until the final dates published in
the Critical Dates for Variation of Enrolment on the ACU website
(http://students.acu.edu.au/273880).
“Turnitin”
The Faculty of Education and Arts values students’ academic honesty and integrity. It employs a range
of processes and technologies to support students to ensure their work aligns with University’s
Academic Honesty Policy and Framework for Academic Integrity. Turnitin, now available at ACU, is an
online originality checker and is an educative tool for students. It allows students to preview their work
and identify originality prior to handing in assessment items. To review the University Academic
Honesty Policy please go to https://students.acu.edu.au/640585.
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2. Program Map
Students enrolling in units which do not follow the sequence recommended in their Program
Map cannot be guaranteed a clash free timetable.
Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Semester 2
Semester 1
Year 1: Master of Teaching (Secondary) (100 cp)
EDFD546
Development and
Learning
(10 cp) Tuesday
MacKillop
Waniassa Campus
EDFD548
Effective Teaching
and Professional
Practice
(10 cp) Tuesday
MacKillop
Wednesday
observations at
MacKillop
Curriculum and
Teaching
1 (10 cp)
EDFD553
Social and Cultural
Contexts of
Education
(10 cp)
Wednesday
MacKillop
Wanniassa
Campus
EDFD547
Diversity in the
Classroom
First
teaching
subject
(10 cp) Tuesday
MacKillop
Curriculum and
Wanniassa
Campus
Second (or
double) teaching
subject Curriculum
and
First
teaching
subject
Teaching
1 (10 cp)
Teaching 21 (10 cp)
Second (or
double) teaching
subject
Curriculum and
Teaching 2 1 (10
cp)
EDFX511
Graduate
Professional
Practice Secondary
1
(10 cp)
EDFX512
Graduate
Professional
Practice Secondary
2
(10 cp)
(Prerequisite
EDFX511)
In Year 2, select three (3) Core Units, one professional experience unit and one approved
education elective in consultation with the Course Coordinator.
Semester 1
Year 2: Master of Teaching (Secondary) (60 cp)
EDFD688
Interpreting and Designing
Educational Research
(10 cp)
EDFD663
Issues in the Profession:
Working across the
Curriculum
(10 cp)
EDFX513
Graduate Professional
Practice Secondary 32
Semester 2
(0 cp)
1
2
EDFD617
Research Project
(20 cp)
EDFD604
Education Elective
Managing Challenging
Behaviour
(10 cp)
(10 cp)
Or alternative unit approved by the Course Coordinator in keeping with registration requirements
To provide extra teaching days as required by state regulations
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Master of Teaching (Secondary) / Graduate Certificate in Religious Education
Semester 2
Semester 1
Year 1: Master of Teaching (Secondary) (100 cp) / Graduate Certificate in Religious Education (40 cp)
EDFD546
Developme
nt and
Learning
(10 cp)
Tuesday
MacKillop
Wanniassa
Campus
EDFD553
Social and
Cultural
Contexts of
Education
(10 cp)
Wednesday
MacKillop
Wanniassa
Campus
EDFD548
Effective
Teaching
and
Professiona
l Practice
(10 cp)
Tuesday
MacKillop
Wednesday
observation
t
EDFD547
Diversity in
the
Classroom
(10cp)
Tuesday
MacKillop
Wanniassa
Campus
First teaching
subject
Curriculum
and Teaching
1
(10 cp)
Second (or
double)
teaching
subject
Curriculum
and
Teaching
1
EDFX511
THBS501
EDRE515
Graduate
Professional
Practice
Secondary 1
(10 cp)
Biblical
(10 cp)
Principles
of Religious
Education
(10 cp)
EDFX512
THCT500
EDRE516
Graduate
Professional
Practice
Secondary 2
(10 cp)
(Prerequisite
EDFX511)
Foundations
of Christian
2
Faith
(10 cp)
Religious
Education
Curriculum
(10 cp)
Studies
3
(10 cp)
First
teachig
subject
Curriculum and
Teaching 21
(10 cp
Second (or
double)
teaching
subject
Curriculum
and
Teaching 2 1
(10 cp)
Semester 2
Semester 1
Year 2: Master of Teaching (Secondary) (60 cp)
3
4
EDFD688
Interpreting and
Designing
Educational Research
(10 cp)
EDFD617
Research Project
(20 cp)
EDFX513 Graduate
Professional Practice
4
Secondary 3
(0 cp)
(Prerequisite EDFX512)
EDFD663
Issues in the
Profession: Working
across the Curriculum
(10 cp)
EDFD604
Education Elective
Managing Challenging
Behaviour
(10 cp)
(10 cp)
It is possible for Master of Teaching students to delay the theology units until their second year.
To provide extra teaching days as required by state regulations
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3. Units Offered in 2015
NOTE: Amendments may be made to unit availability depending on student demand.
Some units will be offered at St Mary MacKillop College, Senior Campus, Isabella Plains, as part
of a School/University partnership. Students should anticipate that two days a week will be at St
Mary MacKillop as part of their study.
OFFERED SEMESTER 1
Location – Delivery
Unit Code
Unit Title
EDAR516
Visual Arts C&T 1
(Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDCU519
Extension C&T 3 (for those requiring a double method)
TBA
EDDR501
Drama C&T 1
(Drama Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDFD546
Development and Learning
Canberra - Attendance
EDFD548
Effective Teach’g & Prof Prac
(Effective Teaching and Professional Practice)
Canberra - Attendance
EDFD663
Issues in the Profession; Working across the curriculum
Canberra - Attendance
EDFD688
Interpr&Designing Ed.Research
(Interpreting and Designing Educational Research)
Canberra - Attendance
EDFX511
Graduate Prof Prac Secondary 1
(Graduate Professional Practice Secondary 1)
25 May 2015 – 17 June 2015
EDFX513
Graduate Prof Exp Secondary 3
(Graduate Professional Experience Secondary 3)
25 May 2015 – 17 June 2015
EDLA538
English C&T 1 (English Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDLO509
LOTE C&T 1
(Languages Other Than English Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDMA517
Mathematics C&T 1
(Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDMU508
Music C&T 1
Music Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDRE515
Principles of Religious Education
EDSS516
Com & Bus Studies C&T 1
(Commerce and Business Studies Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDSS520
History C&T 1
(History Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDSS534
SOSE Curriculum & Teaching 1
(Studies of Society and Environment Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDST541
ICT Curriculum and Teaching 1
Canberra - Attendance
EDST543
Science C&T 1
(Science Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
EDST547
Technology C&T 1
(Technology Curriculum and Teaching 1)
Canberra - Attendance
THBS501
Biblical Studies
Online
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Mode
Canberra – Attendance Intensive
14 – 15 March and 2 – 3 May
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Canberra – Attendance Intensive
THBS501
Biblical Studies
21-21 February
28-29 March
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OFFERED SEMESTER 2
Unit Code
EDAR517
EDCU520
EDDR502
EDFD547
EDFD553
Unit Title
Visual Arts C&T 2
(Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 2)
Extension C&T 4
(for those requiring a double method)
Drama C&T 2
(Drama Curriculum and Teaching 2)
Diversity in the Classroom
Soc & Cult’l Contexts of Ed
(Social and Cultural Contexts of Education)
Location – Delivery
Mode
Canberra - Attendance
TBA
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
EDFD617
Education Project (20 cp)
Canberra - Attendance
EDFD655
Methods of Educational Research
Canberra - Attendance
31 August – 25
September 2015
EDFX512
EDFX513
EDLA539
EDLO510
EDMA518
EDMU509
Graduate Professional Prac Sec 2
(Graduate Professional Practice Secondary 2)
Graduate Professional Prac Sec 3
(Graduate Professional Practice Secondary 3)
English C&T 2
(English Curriculum and Teaching 2)
LOTE C&T 2
(Languages Other Than English Curriculum and Teaching 2)
Mathematics C&T 2
(Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching 2)
Music C&T 2
(Music Curriculum and Teaching 2)
31 August – 25
September 2015
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra – Attendance
Intensive
EDRE516
EDSS517
EDSS521
EDSS535
EDST542
EDST544
EDST548
THCT500
Religious Education Curriculum
Com & Bus Studies C&T 2
(Commercial and Business Studies Curriculum and Teaching 2)
History C&T 2
(History Curriculum and Teaching 2)
SOSE Curriculum & Teaching 2
(Studies of Society and Environment Curriculum and Teaching 2)
ICT Curriculum and Teaching 2
Science C&T 2
(Science Curriculum and Teaching 2)
Technology C&T 2
(Technology Curriculum and Teaching 2)
Foundations of Christian Faith
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8 – 9 August and
19 – 20 September
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Canberra - Attendance
Online
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For information on Unit Descriptions, please refer to the ACU Handbook on the ACU website
(http://students.acu.edu.au/387052). Please select the appropriate Handbook, and then
select Unit Descriptions.
Delivery Modes:
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Attendance – Primarily attendance, either face-to-face or via video conference, at an ACU campus or
another location.
Multi-mode – Some online with a compulsory attendance component (including examinations,
practicums, residential etc).
Online – Fully online (including assessments).
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4. Program Information
160 credit points
Minimum duration: 2 years’ full-time or equivalent part-time. (This course may be completed in 1.5 years in
the accelerated mode)
Course Description
This course has as its foundation the conviction that the quality of education in a society is closely
associated with the preparation of teachers. The aim of this course is to assist participants in developing
professional expertise, attitudes and values that will equip them to develop in others sound knowledge,
skills and ideals and a capacity and readiness to undertake responsibilities in the community. Quality of
education depends also on teachers being prepared to meet the challenge of continued growth in
knowledge, accelerating technological development, evidence-based decision making, social change and
heightened community expectations.
Successful completion of this course enables graduates to apply for registration to teach in Catholic,
state or independent schools in their state.
Units may be offered during the day or early evening and if undertaken full-time will average 16 contact
hours per week.
Prerequisites
Applicants must have a three year bachelor’s degree degree/diploma or equivalent with studies that meet
the required pre-requisites for entry into Curriculum Studies. Students elect to undertake two subjects
from the Curriculum Studies. One subject is deemed the major subject – one that has been studied for
three years at undergraduate level. The other subject is the minor area – a subject that has been studied
for two years at undergraduate level.
The course for the Master of Teaching (Secondary) consists of 160 cp comprised of:
Year 1 - 100 cp in common with the Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary)
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
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Four compulsory Education Studies units
Four Curriculum Studies units
Two (2) professional experience units
Year 2 - 60 cp
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Four Core Studies units including two research units, one of 20 credit points
One Elective unit
A professional experience program (PEP) either incorporated within the 20 credit point research unit
or as a stand-alone unit depending on state-based requirements for professional experience.
Mid-Year Entry
Applications are accepted for mid-year entry. The course map for mid-year applicants is determined in
consultation with the Coordinator.
Mid-Year Entry students will complete their Practicum from 21 of July – 15 August.
Professional Experience:
During your course you will complete:
• 60 days supervised practicum
• 10 days of school-based learning
Students must complete professional experience units during which time they are required to be available
full- time.
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Certain prerequisite or co-requisite units are required before students are placed in schools. For example,
EDFD548 and the two or three teaching methods (Curriculum and Teaching units) must be either
completed before undertaking a teaching round or are concurrent units with the teaching round unit.
InPlace - Placement Management System for Education Students
The Faculty of Education and Arts at Australian Catholic University (ACU) is implementing InPlace, a
placement management system which streamlines registration, requests, and allocation of professional and
community engagement placements.
InPlace will provide education students with greater access to information relating to their Professional
Experience placements. Students enrolling in Professional Experience units, with an EDFX, ADFX and SDFX
code, will be able to register and access allocated placement records online.
Key benefits from InPlace include:
Online registration for placements
Ease in updating professional/community placement information
Ability to receive placement notifications online
Access placement allocations online
InPlace is based on Student Connect data. You will no longer have to fill forms manually for placements. In
order that “best match” placements are made, please ensure that your personal details, including
address and mobile phone number is current and up to date in Student Connect. To update your details
log on to Student Connect (http://students.acu.edu.au/136953).
Note: Mandatory documentation such as Working with Children Checks/Police Checks will still need to be
lodged in person at your local Professional Experience Placement Office.
English Language Requirements
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with an overall score of 7.5, including an individual
score of 7.5 for all tests.
Religious Education
There are different pathways to qualify to teach Religious Education:
1. Those students with previous studies in Theology are able to enrol in two units of Religious Education as
part of the Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary).
2. Students without previous studies in Theology seeking to teach Religious Education as their second
teaching method take the two Theology units from the Graduate Certificate in Religious Education and
undertake the two Religious Education units from the Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary).
(Awards: Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary)/Graduate Certificate in Religious Education).
3. Students seeking to have Religious Education as a third teaching method are able to enrol in the four
units of the Graduate Certificate in Religious Education (two Theology and two Religious Education
units). (Awards: Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary)/Graduate Certificate in Religious
Education).
Additional Requirements – Working with Vulnerable People/Working with Children/ National Police
Check
All students must apply for and obtain background checks as required by Federal and State/Territory
laws, including the Working with Vulnerable People check, Working with Children check and National
Police check, before they will be permitted to participate in the Professional Experience Program.
Information about such background checks will be provided to students by the Professional Experience
Office prior to commencing the Professional Experience Program. Further information can be found on:
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•
•
the Office of Regulatory Services website
(http://www.ors.act.gov.au/community/working_with_vulnerable_people_wwvp);
the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian website (http://www.kidsguardian.nsw.gov.au/Workingwith-children/working-with-children-check); and
the Australian Federal Police website (http://www.afp.gov.au/what-we-do/police-checks/nationalpolice-checks.aspx).
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Requirements to Complete Award
For information on the duration of your course, and the requirements to complete your award, please
refer to the Course Rules for your program.
Course Title
Course Rules
Master of Teaching (Secondary)
https://students.acu.edu.au/643327
Graduate Certificate in Religious Education
https://students.acu.edu.au/643146
It is also important to liaise with the Course Coordinator in order to ascertain if a program
map is required for students who commence studies mid-year.
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5. Enrolment
Now that you have read your Course Enrolment Guide, you can enrol in units online for the 2013 Academic
Year, using Student Connect (http://www.acu.edu.au/136953). For more information about the enrolment
processes for both new and continuing students, please refer to the guides provided.
Students please note:
The course enrolment guides are subject to change. Please check regularly for updates to your course
information. If you require any academic advice, please contact your Course Coordinator. For any other
enquiries, please contact your local Student Centre (http://www.acu.edu.au/42835).
6. Course Completions
Students completing the final semester of their course are required to complete an Application to Course
Complete (ACC) form (visit Enrolment Forms https://students.acu.edu.au/154918 in order to be assessed
for course completion).
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