MASTER OF EDUCATION (READING AND LITERACY)

This course will provide you with a unique opportunity to undertake and publish reflective research where you pursue ways to improve your practice and to share your findings with the professional community.

When following this online teaching course, you will also be given an option to attend three ‘touch-point’ weekends per year (one per trimester) in either Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne.

N.B.

This is not an accredited Australian Initial Teacher Education course and therefore does not qualify the student to teach in Australia.

CORE UNITS

• EMP604 Education Major Project B
• EMP603 Education Major Project A
• EDUC6013 Teaching Literacy to Diverse Students
• EDUC6009 Foundations of Reading and Literacy
• EDU6000 Becoming a High Achieving Professional Educator
• EDUC6010 Assessment and Intervention in Early Childhood

ELECTIVE UNITS

• EDUC6012 Understanding Literacy Difficulties in Adolescence
• EDUC6011 Literacy Learning in the Middle Years
• EDUC6007 Literacy Learning in the Early Years

• Research the changing literacy learning environment and its impact
• Understand how to teach literacy to various groups of students
• Understand the symbiotic relationship of literacy education and effective assessment
• Develop skills in addressing and improving public policy on reading and literacy