Program Overview

This initial teacher education degree prepares you for a rewarding career in secondary school teaching, and enables you to pursue specialist interests. You will develop the critical knowledge and skills of best practice in education to meet the needs of 21st-century learners.

You can specialise in one or two curriculum areas, gaining specialist discipline knowledge and units that develop your pedagogical knowledge.

You'll also study units that establish your understanding of teaching practice, such as educational psychology, Indigenous education and teaching students with diverse learning needs.

What you'll learn

• Apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts associated with effective teaching of secondary school students.
• Critically evaluate and synthesise theory, research and practice to apply knowledge of the needs of students from diverse backgrounds and across the full range of abilities to enhance learning.
• Assess student learning and analyse diverse sources of data to support valid judgements of student learning.
• Plan and deliver effective teaching and learning experiences with demonstrated impact.
• Select, curate, use and create a range of digital resources and technologies to support learning and teaching.
• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for being a life-long learner, identify and engage in professional learning; demonstrate personal literacy and numeracy competencies to the required accreditation standard.
• Engage in a continual cycle of improvement through critical and reflective practices including those based on local, national and global research and evidence-based practices.
• Create, lead and maintain positive learning environments for all students, including those from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Communicate professionally and engage collaboratively with colleagues, students, parent/carers, and the community.

Customise your Secondary Education degree
You can customise your degree by choosing the major you wish to specialise in, and then selecting from one of three options to complete your degree structure.

Your major prepares you with the content and pedagogical knowledge you need to teach across your chosen curriculum area from years 7 to 12, as well as in your specialist subject area in years 11 and 12.

You will choose your major at the time of enrolling (although you won't need to complete your degree structure until after you accept Curtin's course offer for your chosen major).

Note that your choice of second specialisation will depend on your Education major. 

STEP 1: Complete your major
Choose your major from:

• English
• HASS* (Geography)
• HASS* (History)
• HASS* (Economics)
• HASS* (Politics and Law)
• Health and Physical Education
• Mathematics
• Science (Biology)
• Science (Chemistry)
• Science (Human Biology)
• Science (Psychology)
• Science (Physics)
• The Arts (Drama)
• The Arts (Media Production and Analysis)
• The Arts (Visual Arts)

* Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)