Postgraduate courses - Teaching (Secondary)

Overview

The Master of Teaching (Secondary) is offered to graduates who wish to teach years 7-12 in secondary schools. The course provides you with the background necessary to apply for registration as a secondary teacher. Topics covered during the both 1.5 years accelerated degree and the 2-year equivalent include specialist curriculum studies, professional experience and a number of topics devoted to issues in education.

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Course

Master of Teaching (Secondary)

Duration: 2 years

Delivery mode:
In person
Online plus placement

Location:
Bedford Park
City - in person only

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
March

SATAC code:
2CM090 (Bedford Park)
2CM830 (City)

Annual indicative fees (2025):
$4,624 (Commonwealth supported place)

Further information on fees listed

Apply via SATAC

2CM090 (Bedford Park)

2CM830 (City)

Master of Teaching (Secondary) - Accelerated

Duration: 1.5 years

Delivery mode:
In person
Online plus placement

Location:
Bedford Park
City - in person only

Availability:
Full-time
Part-time

Start dates:
March

SATAC code:
2CM289 (Bedford Park)
2CM831 (City)

Annual indicative fees (2025):
$4,624 (Commonwealth supported place)

Further information on fees listed

Apply via SATAC

2CM289 (Bedford Park)

Your career

The Master of Teaching prepares graduates to enter the teaching profession with confidence and competence. Although the majority of education graduates go on to employment as a teacher in the public or private sector, some choose to follow other pathways. Graduate roles include community education officer, and education and engagement officer.

Potential occupations include:

teachers in school classrooms
school coordinators and principals
curriculum and policy advisers in departments of education
advisers to government departments and other policy makers.

Professional accreditation/recognition

This academic qualification will enable you to apply for registration with the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia. You are advised to check registration requirements as they are subject to change. Graduates looking for employment in other parts of Australia and overseas may be required to meet additional conditions.

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What you will study

The Master of Teaching (Secondary) consists of 72 units over 1.5 or two years. The 1.5 year version is taken as 45 units in the first year and 27 units in the last semester as a full time load, while the 2 year equivalent is taken as 36 units per year.

The study program includes an introduction to teaching and research in the education profession, researching learners and learning, and relationships for learning and teaching.

Curriculum topics will deal with understanding and developing curriculum in context in the middle years of school as well as senior years specialisations, and assessment in education.

Topics will discuss differentiation and inclusive educational practices, teaching Indigenous Australian students as well as professional issues in secondary education, and the reflective professional in action. Literacies and numeracies for the middle and secondary years and ICT will be covered. The program will include the required professional experience placements with preparation lectures and preliminary work

Practical experience

You will be engaged throughout the entire program in developing the skills to become a teacher. The course includes blocks of professional experience in the first and subsequent year as required by the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia.

Practical experience requirements

Child-Related Employment Screening

All College of Education, Psychology and Social Work pre-service teachers must obtain a Working With Children Check (WWCC) from the Department for Human Service (DHS) Screening Unit and a Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect: Education and Care (RRHAN-EC) from a registered provider before undertaking their professional experience placements. This is a requirement of the Department for Education (DfE), in agreement with the Catholic Education and Independent Schools Boards. Pre-service teachers who are not cleared will therefore not be able to complete the requirements of the course.

Instructions about applications are provided on the professional experience website

Practical experience financial support

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Master of Teaching (Secondary)

Master of Teaching (Secondary) Accelerated

Entry requirements

Masters

Applicants must hold an approved undergraduate bachelor degree or equivalent qualification and must have completed topics that enable them to teach in South Australia in at least one major teaching area offered by the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.

Applicants must normally have achieved a Flinders equivalent grade point average (GPA) of 4.00 or above for consideration.

The Master of Teaching is a pre-service teaching degree and admission normally will not be granted to applicants who already hold a teaching qualification. Selection is based on academic merit.

Additional entry requirements

Applicants must complete a non-academic assessment task known as a Teaching Capabilities Statement as part of their application to demonstrate their motivation to teach, their strong interpersonal and communication skills, willingness to learn, resilience, self-efficacy, and strong organisational and planning skills. This involves a short statement in response to three set questions used to demonstrate suitability for study and work in the teaching profession.

Applicants who select this course as a preference during the application process will be directed to a page to meet this requirement.

Visit the Teaching Capabilities Statement page for further information

Inherent requirements

The Australian Government has introduced the Literacy and Numeracy Test for all initial teacher education (ITE) students to ensure they have the high level of personal literacy and numeracy skills required of teachers.

The test is a national instrument designed to assess elements of an individual's literacy and numeracy skills and will be used to demonstrate that ITE graduates are in the top 30 per cent of the population for literacy and numeracy.

All students graduating from any ITE course in South Australia must have achieved the standard for both the literacy and numeracy components of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to graduate.

For further information, including registration details, please check the test administrator’s website at https://teacheredtest.acer.edu.au/

There are also important inherent requirements for this course and applicants are strongly advised to become aware of these requirements.

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How to apply

Select your preferred course.

Check entry requirements.

Check individual course entries on SATAC for information on important dates.

Apply online at SATAC.

Flinders students can apply to transfer to this course internally. Visit: www.flinders.edu.au/internaltransfer for more information.

Apply directly via SATAC

Select your preferred course and apply directly through the MySATAC application portal.

Applicants are recommended to preference CSP as a higher preference and FFP as a lower preference.

Masters in Teaching (Secondary) (Accelerated)

2CM289 (Bedford Park)

2CM831 (City)

Master of Teaching (Secondary)

2CM090 (Bedford Park)

2CM830 (City)

Entry requirements

Masters

Applicants must hold an approved undergraduate bachelor degree or equivalent qualification and must have completed topics that enable them to teach in South Australia in at least one major teaching area offered by the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.

Applicants must normally have achieved a Flinders equivalent grade point average (GPA) of 4.00 or above for consideration.

The Master of Teaching is a pre-service teaching degree and admission normally will not be granted to applicants who already hold a teaching qualification. Selection is based on academic merit.

Additional entry requirements

Applicants must complete a non-academic assessment task known as a Teaching Capabilities Statement as part of their application to demonstrate their motivation to teach, their strong interpersonal and communication skills, willingness to learn, resilience, self-efficacy, and strong organisational and planning skills. This involves a short statement in response to three set questions used to demonstrate suitability for study and work in the teaching profession.

Applicants who select this course as a preference during the application process will be directed to a page to meet this requirement.

Visit the Teaching Capabilities Statement page for further information

Inherent requirements

The Australian Government has introduced the Literacy and Numeracy Test for all initial teacher education (ITE) students to ensure they have the high level of personal literacy and numeracy skills required of teachers.

The test is a national instrument designed to assess elements of an individual's literacy and numeracy skills and will be used to demonstrate that ITE graduates are in the top 30 per cent of the population for literacy and numeracy.

All students graduating from any ITE course in South Australia must have achieved the standard for both the literacy and numeracy components of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to graduate.

For further information, including registration details, please check the test administrator’s website at https://teacheredtest.acer.edu.au/

There are also important inherent requirements for this course and applicants are strongly advised to become aware of these requirements.

View inherent requirements