Course code: 1737 (formerly EGSEDG)
Contact: Dr Keith Stead
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 must have an approved degree (or equivalent qualification) from a recognised tertiary institution. Entry is competitive and places may be restricted according to quotas.
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.
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 twenty days of practice teaching in the first year of the course and twenty-five days in the second year. Practice teaching is usually undertaken during May, July and August in each year.
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 student matters officer, Faculty of Education, Gippsland campus (telephone (03) 51 22 6969 or (03) 9902 6969).