This nationally accredited course is dedicated to producing future teachers ready to enter the primary education teaching profession.

A key feature of this course is the range and number of professional practice experiences offered to pre-service teacher education students, ensuring they can make the essential connection between theory and practice, while building both professional and generic employability skills in real teaching environments.

Partnerships between ECU and over 1,000 schools and early learning centres allow for pre-service teachers to gain experience in diverse settings, including public, private, metropolitan, regional, rural or remote schools, working with children from diverse economic, social, ethnic and educational circumstances.

Pre-service teachers also have the opportunity to complete a formal specialisation in their Primary Education qualification. This enables you to obtain a deeper and broader level knowledge and understanding in a particular Learning Area at the graduate level. Units are also available in the degree that enable students to complete accreditation requirements to teach in Catholic schools.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Apply broad discipline knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical Primary education situations.
• Communicate disciplinary (Primary education) knowledge and values in professional and public contexts.
• Demonstrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge in the underlying philosophies, theories, principles and processes of learning including how they relate to practice and the role of teachers, from a global perspective.
• Demonstrate a global outlook with respect for cultural diversity, including Indigenous cultural competence.
• Demonstrate autonomy, accountability and judgement for own learning and professional practice.
• Demonstrate broad and coherent body of knowledge with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in primary education.
• Demonstrate knowledge of socio-cultural backgrounds, including Indigenous and their impact on students' learning needs
• Think creatively to anticipate challenges and generate Primary education specific solutions/responses.
• Think critically to analyze, interpret and conceptualize complex Primary education problems.
• Use digital technologies and literacies to access, evaluate and synthesize relevant information from multiple sources.
• Work collaboratively and demonstrate initiative to implement social, sustainable, and ethical values.

Career opportunities

This course creates quality graduates ready to take up employment in education learning environments.

Possible future job titles

Primary School Teacher.