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Gippsland
campus (distance education)
Course code: 1737 (formerly EGSEDG)
Contact: Dr Keith Stead (please telephone (03) 51 22 6969 or
(03) 9902 6969 for initial inquiries)
The Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) is usually offered to applicants as a part-time distance education course, although there may also be a small number of places available for full-time study through distance education.
The objectives of the Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) course are to provide students with professional knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to:
Applicants contemplating admission to this course may seek formal credit or recognition of prior learning. Applicants should apply for credit prior to enrolment but currently enrolled students may also apply. The Faculty of Education considers each application on its merits within the context of the faculty guidelines on credit transfer which are contained in a booklet Learning from experience available from the Professional Development Institute, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Gippsland campus, Churchill 3842 ($7 postage and packing).
The
course consists of the four subjects as set out below. Each of these subjects
has a value of twelve credit points. As well as completing the four subjects
students must successfully complete forty-five days of supervised school
experience. This requirement forms an essential part of subjects GEC5501 and
GEC5502 and must be completed in both first and second years of the course.
Practice teaching must be undertaken in Australia so as to provide for
appropriate supervision during the teaching rounds. Teaching method subjects
offered in 1998 include English, social studies, creative arts, science,
mathematics, music, teaching English as a second language, business studies and
LOTE (Indonesian and Italian).
Students must take two single teaching methods (eg English and social studies;
mathematics and social studies; mathematics and science) or one double method
(eg double creative arts; double business studies). Students require a major or
a submajor as a prerequisite for studying a teaching method area.
plus twenty days of successful supervised practice teaching
plus twenty-five days of successful supervised practice teaching
The
course is taken over two years of part-time study through distance education.
Students receive study materials for the various modules of the course. In each
year of the course, practice teaching is undertaken in schools located close to
a student's place of residence. Practice teaching is an integral part of
GEC5501 (Teaching and curriculum studies I) and GEC5502 (Teaching and
curriculum studies II). Students are required to complete a block of
twenty days of practice teaching in the first year of the course and a block of
twenty-five days in the second year. Practice teaching is usually undertaken
during May, July and August in each year. Please note that the minimum
requirement of forty-five days may be increased to sixty days from 1999.
There may also be a small number of places available for full-time study
through distance education. Students undertaking the course full-time complete
the required forty-five days of practice teaching in two blocks of time in
school during May and again in July and August. The expected number of hours
per week for a full-time student is forty-eight.
Details
of all subjects, including reading lists, follow the course information in this
handbook.
Further information regarding this course may be obtained from the senior
administrator, Faculty of Education, Gippsland campus (telephone
(03) 51 22 6969 or (03) 9902 6969) or visit our web
site at http://www.education.monash.edu.au/
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