Changing educational environments present diverse challenges and opportunities for teachers. Developing your professional knowledge and skills at an advanced level can prepare you to respond effectively to such challenges.

This course will develop your understanding of educational principles, pedagogy, practice and policy in selected areas. It offers you opportunities to refine and enhance your knowledge and skills in three key areas: accessing the most up-to-date sources of research and scholarship in your specialist area, analysing and synthesising highly technical literature, and effectively communicating the results to both academic and non-academic audiences.

Key Features

• This course is ideal for education professionals working in early childhood or school education who are keen to pursue advanced studies in education.
• You’ll extend your skills in supporting and mentoring your colleagues, so they may enhance their levels of proficiency.
• You’ll become an effective leader by shaping policy and practice reform that innovate teaching and learning in educational settings in diverse contexts.
• You’ll apply your new knowledge to practical problems, tasks and scenarios, ensuring that you develop the knowledge management, critical thinking and communicative capabilities you need to progress in your career.
• This course is available online, enabling you to study while you’re in paid employment – and apply what you learn in the classroom.
• After you graduate, you’ll have access to ongoing professional learning and cutting-edge professional development through our Academy of Continuing Professional Development in Education.
• Many of the units included in this course will be available through micro-credentialing.
• Your learning will benefit through our deep relationships with Macquarie University hub and partner schools, which facilitate ongoing engagement with teachers and classrooms, and with our on-campus Mia Mia Child and Family Study Centre, our Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC) – a school for children with special needs – and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC).
• Note: This course is not a teaching qualification. To become a teacher, you must complete a Master of Teaching focusing on one sector: Early childhood (birth to five years), primary or secondary education.

• Classroom leadership role
• Designing and leading a range of interdisciplinary STEM education programs
• Education administrator
• Educational researcher
• Mentor
• Policymaker
• Teaching and learning technology developer