Bachelor of Education (Secondary)

Commencing your studies in semester 1 gives you the option to fast-track your studies, completing a full-time on-campus degree in 3.5 years.
Gain extensive classroom experience through professional experience placements organised by QUT as soon as your first year of study.
Be prepared to teach in the classrooms of today and the future.
Select two teaching areas for specialisation.
Real-world learning: We offer opportunities to gain valuable experience overseas. These diverse cultural experiences can enhance your personal development and cultural competence, and show employers that you can deal with change and have initiative, commitment, flexibility, and compassion. You can apply for opportunities to travel overseas for semester exchange or short-term international programs offered in conjunction with our global partners. Your experience may contribute towards a unit in your course. You may also be eligible to receive funding for travel.
Customise your degree: Choose two teaching areas from this list to give you a broad background and to maximise your employment opportunities. If you can’t decide, the best advice is to follow your passion and select senior subjects you enjoyed at school.You can take any combination of two teaching areas, except for the following:Mathematics and Mathematics Extension
two science areas, including Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Earth & Environmental Science.
Otherwise, you can form your combination from any of the following list:Biology – to teach students how the natural world works
Chemistry – to enable fundamental scientific principles
Earth and Environmental Science – to help students become aware of the power and fragility of our planet.
English – to help create a strong cohort of students ready to take on corporate and creative worlds.
Geography – to foster students’ sense of wonder, respect and curiosity for other places and cultures.
Health and Physical Education – to help students not only support their own health, but to take positive practices into their careers and futures.
History – to enable students to build on their critical thinking and inquiry skills, and to investigate the past with meaningful questions.
Mathematics – to play a role in bringing through the next generation of mathematic progress and discoveries.
Mathematics Extension – to help advanced learners push their limits and make discoveries.
Physics – to help students understand and measure the fundamental laws of the world around them.
Double degrees: A double degree with secondary education can deepen your specialisation, and allow you to expand your career opportunities.
Careers and outcomes: Graduates will have a solid foundation of knowledge to teach in secondary schools. Your career will be guided by, but not limited to, your chosen teaching areas. Your qualification can also allow you to work across Australia and overseas. You will be empowered to shape your own career path and explore the many ways to make an impact. You can explore careers outside the classroom, including: education policy and program implementation, training and development roles in private and public organisations, education and outreach roles, developing products for the education services industry, learning designer
entertainment industry roles, consultancy, education research.
Professional recognition: This course meets professional teaching standards for the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership and Queensland College of Teachers. Graduates are eligible to apply for teacher registration.

Prerequisites
English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C), and
at least one of General Mathematics, or Mathematical Methods, or Specialist Mathematics (Units 3 & 4, C).
Pass the Initial Teacher Education Course (ITE) capabilities criteria.

Applicants must demonstrate possession of key competencies outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) as those attributes and motivations common to effective teachers.

You must complete an online questionnaire to demonstrate your motivation for and understanding of, the course and profession. In the questionnaire you will be asked to:
Rank a series of potentially appropriate statement responses, in order of what you think is most to least important.
Provide two x 500 word written statements addressing the categories and indicators as outlined on the Teacher Entry Fact Sheet.
IELTS Academic: 6.5 Overall with 6.0 in all other band. TOEFL iBT: 79 Overall with Listening 16, Reading 16, Writing 21, Speaking 18.

International Baccalaureate score of 25.00