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Clayton,
Gippsland and Peninsula campuses
Course code: 1559
Contact: Dr Ian Mitchell (Clayton - please telephone 9905 2819 or
9905 2784 for initial inquiries), Associate Professor Tony Taylor
(Gippsland - please telephone (03) 51 22 6969 or
(03) 9902 6969 for initial inquiries) or Ms Margrette Fairbanks
(Peninsula - please telephone 9904 4291 for initial inquiries)
The
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning is normally awarded to students
who, having completed stage 1 of the Master of Teaching (MTeach) course,
elect not to continue to stage 2. Details of the MTeach are set out
elsewhere in this handbook.
The course is designed to assist and support teachers in being able to
demonstrate the quality aspects of their teaching and to make teaching better
understood in the profession and the wider community. It should also provide
the confidence and skills to allow teachers to communicate the knowledge and
understanding effectively and to develop in students the capacity to
systematically appraise their pedagogy through process of reflection, analysis
and action research, and continually to incorporate the learnings of such
appraisal into improvements in their teaching practice.
Upon successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning course students should have:
The
course will be available to four-year-trained teachers.
Students taking the course will normally be in full-time or substantial
part-time employment in schools. Other situations will be approved if the
student has access to sufficient teaching to provide the basis for the core
subject. International students will be able to enrol in the course where the
faculty is able to provide appropriate supervision.
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).
As
the course is specifically directed towards the developmental needs of
qualified teachers with a significant amount of professional experience, the
varied backgrounds and differing career aspirations of such teachers require a
program which balances individual interests and initiatives with a common focus
on continuing development in professional practice. The course therefore
contains a core subject which maintains this focus, and a program of elective
subjects which may be put together in many different ways.
All students will undertake the core subject EDN8038 (Improving professional
practice) which is a twelve-point, year-long subject which helps students
review and reflect on their teaching practice. This subject will also provide
the framework and foundation for the second-year requirements carried out in
the teaching context. Students will also take one of a list of approved
teaching and learning subjects currently available in the faculty's masters
program.
Students choose elective subjects equivalent to a further thirty-six to forty
points, which must form a coherent program of study, to be approved by the
course leader. Normally, at least twenty-four points must be taken from MEd
subjects. The remaining twelve to sixteen points may be taken as one MEd
subject or two BEdSt subjects or, with approval from the course leader, as
appropriate third or fourth-year subjects.
Students should have access to subjects offered on any campus of the faculty,
and in distance mode as well as face-to-face. The entire pool of
fifth-year-level subjects available within the faculty gives students an
unprecedented opportunity to build programs suited to their individual needs.
The course leader may, however, identify a subset of subjects that are most
appropriate for a particular student. An opportunity also exists for students
to readjust their academic qualifications by taking up to twelve to sixteen
points from another faculty to upgrade or readjust qualifications to meet
employment needs. (See the examples of possible programs below.)
Total: 48 points
Total: 48 points
The course will involve the equivalent of one year's full-time study over a number of calendar years, depending on the balance of full-time and part-time study undertaken. 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. Not all subjects are offered each year and students should consult
the timetable or the course adviser.
Further information regarding this course may be obtained from one of the
faculty's offices: the inquiry office, Clayton campus (telephone 9905 2819
or 9905 2784), the senior administrator, Gippsland campus (telephone
(03) 51 22 6969 or (03) 9902 6969), or the senior
administrative officer, Peninsula campus (telephone 9904 4291) or visit
our web site at http://www.education.monash.edu.au/
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