Graduate Diploma in Junior Primary Education

• Important information
• The course
• Admission requirements
• Course outline
  • Core subjects

Important information

Peninsula campus

Course code: 1266

Contact: Ms Anne Kennedy (course leader)

The course

The Graduate Diploma in Junior Primary Education is designed to enable primary teachers to acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to design child-centred curricula and implement developmentally appropriate practices within the junior grades of primary school. This course takes a minimum of one year full-time or two years part-time study.

Admission requirements

Three years primary teaching qualification or equivalent. This course will be offered by direct application.

Course outline

Core subjects

• EDN4101 Contemporary issues in early childhood education
• EDN4104 Assisting children with special needs
• EDN4401 Parental involvement in literacy
• EDN4415 Studies in teaching 8: project
• EDN4425 The junior primary specialist
• EDN5001 Australian family studies
• EDN5002 Program development and implementation
• EDN5006 Child development

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