Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Course

This course is designed to meet the needs of educators, educational administrators, managers, policy makers and others interested or involved in learning and education or working in the wider educational community, who wish to pursue studies at postgraduate level.

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that students will have:

• developed an understanding of reflective practice and its relationship to ongoing professional learning and growth
• reflected on the relationship between theory and practice in teaching
• a deeper understanding of classroom practice and its relationship to student learning
• developed a greater awareness of the nature of professional learning
• developed an understanding of the nature of professional knowledge of practice
• developed an understanding of a diversity of approaches to teaching and learning about practice
• have a better understanding of the central role of professional learning in the ongoing development of professional knowledge of practice.

Students are required to successfully complete two 12-point core units.

Students complete any two 12-point units selected from the units offered* within the postgraduate coursework studies programs and approved by the course advisor.

* See the handbook entry for 2500 Master of Education for the full list of units offered.

Candidates who successfully complete the Postgraduate Certificate of Education may complete a relevant postgraduate diploma or masters degree by undertaking a further two or four units respectively.

Postgraduate Certificate of Education