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Foundations of Teaching
PostgraduateTAS-EMT5022025
Get to know the teaching profession. Learn to reflect critically on your education experiences so that you can create an inspiring environment as a teacher. Cover the pragmatics of teaching, including strategies, communication and observation.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Foundations of Teaching
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Reflect critically on your knowledge of teaching in relation to current research and on yourself as a developing teacher.
- Execute responsibility for your learning about the teaching profession and your development as a teacher who has advanced cognitive, creative, and critical skills.
- Engage critically with content to create knowledge, and clearly communicate concepts and ideas to an intended audience.
- Recognise important processes and protocols relating to participation in professional experience in schools.
- Teaching as a Research-informed Profession
- Teacher Qualities, Teacher Identity and Teacher Presence
- Using Theory to Understand Education and Teaching
- Reflective Practice
- Education and Ethics
- Learning Theories
- Teaching Strategies
- Lesson Planning
- Student Engagement
- Teacher Observation
- Ethics and Professional Conduct
- Student Equity and Diversity
- Australian Professional Standards for Teaching the Australian Curriculum
Foundations of Teaching introduces you to the study of teaching as a profession and dimensions of teacher relationships and work. Through acquiring skills to reflect critically on your assumptions based on past educational experiences and attitudes and beliefs about teaching and teachers, you will have the opportunity to engage at a deep level with both research and your new experiences of teaching. Content explored in this subject relates to teacher reflection, teacher professionalism, teaching strategies, teacher gratitude, and the pragmatics of teachers' work such as establishing a positive and supportive classroom environment, communication as a teacher, and observation skills. Your participation in this subject therefore establishes a sound base to develop your knowledge and professional practice for the duration of the course and into the future.
- Introductory Letter (10%)
- Academic Essay (40%)
- Observation and Reflection (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-EDC-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly (online) lectures or equivalent (1 hour) and weekly participation in discussion boards (2 hours). Additional independent study (8 hours). Please note - EMT502 Foundations of Teaching is the co-requisite theory subject for EMT512 Professional Experience 1 (Primary). Co-requisite subjects must be either enrolled concurrently or the theory component (EMT502) successfully completed in a prior semester of study. If you have not met the theory requirements, you will be ineligible for Professional Experience 1 (Primary).
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateTAS-EDC-MAS