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Minimum English Language Proficiency Requirements

Students of non-English speaking backgrounds must have an adequate English language capacity assessed under the Australian International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The IELTS score required for admission to this course can be found in Schedule II of the ʯÁñÊÓƵ Admissions policy.

Course learning outcomes

ʯÁñÊÓƵ graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. ʯÁñÊÓƵ graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Education, ʯÁñÊÓƵ graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate broad and coherent understanding of professional knowledge, practice and engagement with depth in the National Professional Standards for Teachers.

• Demonstrate broad and coherent understanding of underlying principles and concepts, and teaching and learning approaches for the tropics in the areas of Indigenous education, education for sustainability, rural and regional education.

• Review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise professional knowledge, practice and engagement to enhance outcomes for diverse students.

• Communicate professional knowledge clearly and coherently through oral and written modes to students and key stakeholders during professional practice and engagement.

• Identify and solve problems and make informed decisions in diverse professional contexts with well-developed judgment and initiative.

• Develop and demonstrate dispositions required for effective teaching that embrace responsibility and accountability for professional knowledge, practice, and engagement including collaboration with stakeholders.

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Science, ʯÁñÊÓƵ graduates will be able to:

• Integrate and apply a coherent body of theoretical and technical knowledge, including underlying concepts and principles, in one or more science disciplines.

• Critically appraise the role and relevance of science in society, particularly in creating sustainable futures in the tropics, worldwide.

• Demonstrate broad understanding of the methods of science, including the creative processes involved in developing scientific knowledge, and its contestable and testable nature.

• Retrieve, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information from a range of sources.

• Plan and conduct reliable, evidence-based laboratory and/or field experiments by selecting and applying methods, techniques and tools, as appropriate to one or more science disciplines.

• Organise, analyse and interpret scientific data using mathematical, statistical and technological skills.

• Convey scientific ideas, arguments and conclusions clearly and coherently through well-developed written and oral communication skills and a variety of media.

• Identify, analyse and generate solutions to unpredictable or complex problems by applying scientific knowledge and skills with initiative and well-developed judgement.

• Critically review regulatory requirements, ethical principles and, where appropriate, cultural frameworks, to work effectively, responsibly and safely in diverse contexts.

• Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes to manage their professional learning needs and performance, autonomously and in collaboration with others.

Special requirements

Nil

Cairns

Not all teaching areas are available

Maximum time to complete

13 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

Yes

Further information about placements e.g. Suitability to Work with Children Card can be found at Enrolment Policy – Coursework Students.

Candidates may be required to undertake placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled at their own expense.

Accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

Not applicable

Maximum allowed

72 credit points

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 23 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the candidate has not completed this course.

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable

Eligibility

Candidates must satisfy the School requirements relating to the standard of academic achievement necessary to proceed to the honours degree.