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Highlights

Bring your passion for STEM to the teaching profession and inspire the next generation

A shortage of qualified STEM teachers means you'll be in demand when you graduate

Specialise in an area of science in which you are most interested

Undertake professional experience placements in schools to prepare you to become a teacher.

In your first year of your science studies, you'll complete four core units-an introduction to the principles of science. You will learn by enquiry-experimental science units will give you the grounding in the fundamental methods of science practice, analysis, research and scientific presentation, as well as hands-on experience. These are skills that will translate well into your teaching career.

In your biological sciences major, you will explore the science of living things through cell biology and evolution, animal biology, biological processes and ecology. You'll continue your studies into plant biology, microbiology, population genetics and molecular biology.

The integrative biology project provides the valuable opportunity to showcase the skills and knowledge you have acquired throughout your degree.

As you progress to the Master of Teaching component, you'll find the course is designed to ensure you can step into your teaching career with confidence. In curriculum units you'll learn how to teach subjects in the Australian curriculum. Our expert lecturers will encourage you to be creative as you experiment with different teaching approaches to engage, excite and extend your learners. You'll learn how to identify the best technologies to incorporate in your teaching. Everything you do will be based on a deep understanding of child and adolescent development.

Why choose this course?

You may have heard the statistic - 75% of future careers will depend on STEM skills. To equip our future generations for those future careers, we need teachers to help impart the knowledge and provide the skills needed to succeed.

This course provides a unique opportunity to gaining a depth of understanding in biological sciences, before progressing to your teaching qualification. You'll learn how to think-not what to think. This will provide you with skillset, as a teacher, to encourage your students to question, explore and research throughout their studies and inspire the next generation of STEM leaders.

Careers and outcomes

As a secondary teaching specialist, you will be prepared to teach biological sciences in schools. You will also gain sufficient quantitative skills during your Science studies to prepare you to have a second teaching area in Mathematics.

Your qualification can also allow you to teach in other locations in Australia and overseas.

The masters qualification will position you to lead STEM teaching in a school, or to pursue other important roles in the education sector: in policy work; curriculum development; or community engagement projects to advance STEM.