Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Teaching is designed to enable qualified practising secondary teachers to update and/or add an additional teaching area to their formal preservice teacher qualifications. The teaching areas include: Aboriginal StudiesBiologyBusiness StudiesChemistryChemistry/BiologyDramaEarth and Environmental ScienceEconomicsEnglishEnglish as an Additional Language/DialectGeographyGraphics and MultimediaHistory - AncientHistory - ModernLanguages (Chinese, French, Japanese, … For more content click the Read More button below.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Apply this knowledge and skill to teaching a range of secondary-age learners in your own context
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Demonstrate a commitment to the education profession and an ability to reflect on and improve your own practice
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Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and skills in your specialist curriculum area(s) and the pedagogical implications
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Graduate Capabilities

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Program Structure

Students must complete 24 UOC when taken as a standalone program.

Core Course6 Units of Credit:
Master of Education Electives6 Units of Credit:
Teaching Method Courses12 Units of Credit:

Enrolment Disclaimer

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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements

Special Admission Requirements

Other

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Program Requirements

Progression Requirements

Articulation arrangement: If you are admitted to the Masters you will receive credit for all courses completed.

For more information on university policy on progression requirements please visit Academic Progression

Associated Programs

Nested Postgraduate Program

Master of Teaching (Secondary) - MTeach(Sec)8926 - Teaching (Secondary)

Additional Information

Attendance

The School of Education (SED) requires students meet a minimum attendance requirement of 80% of all scheduled classes (i.1. lectures, tutorials, workshops, seminars) for all courses. Attendance in person is required for tutorials, seminars, and workshops when course are delivered in face-to-face mode. It is the responsibility of students to ensure that their attendance is recorded for the face to face either by electronic means or via an attendance register. Attendance in online or blended mode will be assessed through digital participation.  

This attendance requirement supports postgraduate students to achieve the specific program or course learning outcomes of each course in accordance with national (AITSL) and state (NESA) program standards and maintenance of teacher accreditation policies.

Students seeking to claim further study to maintain teacher accreditation at proficient, highly accomplished and lead levels through participation in postgraduate programs must adhere to the SED Attendance Requirement to be eligible to meet the requirements of the NESA Further Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies Policy: Maintenance of Accreditation (2016)

It is the responsibility of the student to catch up on any learning missed due to absences. To arrange alternative activities to address the content missed students should contact the Course Convenor. Failure to meet the minimum attendance requirement of 80% will result in an Unsatisfactory Fail (UF) for the course regardless of performance on assessment tasks or other requirements for the course.

 

This program is not available to International applicants as it is not a full-time program.

Further Information

Contact the UNSW Arts and Social Sciences Student Services for advice.

Program Fees

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