Course code: 1514
Contact: Mr Tom Hill
The Bachelor of Primary Education provides initial preparation for primary teachers. Graduates will be eligible for employment within state and independent schools and related teaching services.
The major objectives of the Bachelor of Primary Education course are to provide students with a program of studies and experiences which should enable them to:
Applicants must have satisfactorily completed the Victorian Certificate of Education or its equivalent. Within the Victorian Certificate of Education, English must be included in the applicant's `best four' subjects and applicants must have satisfactorily passed two units of VCE mathematics.
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 degree is offered over four successive years and is designed to be cumulative in content. Whilst each of the three areas may appear to be discrete, it is expected that the teaching and curriculum studies and the education studies will have direct relevance to the practicum.
Appropriate connections between the teaching and curriculum studies and the practicum will be made in each subject offering. All eight key learning areas are represented as the basic structure, with added emphasis being given to mathematics and English. In the first three semesters two key learning areas form the basis of the subject offered. In the sixth and seventh semesters students are given the freedom to select a particular discipline for further study. Professional issues in the eighth semester will be a final preparation for students to enter the teaching profession (eighty-four points).
Each subject offered within the education studies stream is studied from two perspectives: teaching and learning and a social impact perspective. Whilst these perspectives are not separate subjects within each education study, their presence will be clearly identified through subject planning, delivery and within the conceptual development of students (fifty-two points).
General studies electives which allow the student to enhance their personal development by pursuing a discipline area of study in the sciences, humanities or expressive arts (fifty-six points).
Students are required to undertake studies in teaching and curriculum and education studies in each of the four years of the degree. General studies are undertaken only in years one to three.
The first-year program consists of:
The second-year program consists of:
This course is a four-year concurrent course taken on-campus with a set of fieldwork experiences each year. The expected number of hours per week for a full-time student is forty-eight.
Students are referred to the subject descriptions, which include reading lists, following the course information in this handbook for details of the subjects offered in the Bachelor of Primary Education degree.
Further information regarding this course may be obtained from the administrative officer, Peninsula campus (telephone 9904 4291).