Master of Teaching (Early Childhood)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) |
| Deakin course code | E761 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | Burwood (Melbourne), Online For students who commenced prior to 2024 only |
| Duration | 2 years full-time - 16 credit points Deakin courses can also be studied part-time over a longer period. |
| CRICOS course code | 088430F Burwood (Melbourne) |
Become an Early Childhood Teacher. This course is approved by ACECQA as an early childhood teaching qualification in Australia and graduates are eligible to register with the VIT*. *This course is accredited with the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) and recognised as an early childhood teaching qualification in Australia. Graduates are eligible to register with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) as an early childhood teacher. Other states and territories may also require early childhood teachers to hold teacher registration or accreditation. Prospective students are strongly advised to check with teacher registration and accreditation authorities as to the requirement and eligibility to register and work as early childhood teachers in other states, territories or internationally with a Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) birth to five qualification. | |
The final intake to this course version was in 2023. Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information. Further course structure information can be found in the handbook archive. | |
Course sub-headings
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Contribute to critical, professional debates about education theory; local, national and global trends; curriculum; Indigenous and intercultural perspectives; and legal, professional and ethical codes and standards, and critique and apply these understandings to inform their own practice. |
| Communication | Apply critical thinking, pedagogical knowledge and effective interpersonal, oral, written and multimodal communication skills to demonstrate empathy, foster learner agency, establish positive and inclusive learning-friendly environments, and build effective professional partnerships and trust with families/caregivers, teaching colleagues and other stakeholders. |
| Digital literacy | Act in accordance with the ethical and legal frameworks and policy that inform responsible and ethical practice in digital environments, and critically discuss, evaluate and employ a range of appropriate digital literacies, resources and technologies for professional/community/learner engagement and agency. |
| Critical thinking | Contribute to critical and professional debates about education trends, theory, policy and research and use these understandings to critically reflect on and evaluate own teaching practices and diverse learning data sets to make informed evidence-based judgements for enhancements and innovations to improve learner agency and outcomes. |
| Problem solving | Collaboratively and independently use evidence and research to identify, prioritise and creatively respond to problems that arise in professional learning and practice. |
| Self-management | Engage autonomously and responsibly with critical self-reflection, self-assessment and feedback from others, to inform their own learning, plan for professional development and to balance academic demands with self-care /self-management. |
| Teamwork | Actively and collaboratively participate in, and/or lead learning communities, involving learners, families, community members, colleagues and the broader profession to deepen understandings of education and to optimise learning and learner well-being. |
| Global citizenship | Engage in research, and with the legal and ethical obligations of the teaching profession, to develop informed positions on and approaches to educational transformation as applied to learner agency and citizenship; Indigenous and intercultural issues; global education trends and issues; and, social justice and sustainability. |
Approved at Faculty Board 2019
Course structure
Core units
| EEE754 | Language, Literacies and Learning |
| EEE755 | Numeracy, Social Justice and New Pedagogies |
| EEE756 | Health, Wellbeing and Inclusive Education |
| ECE703 | Integrative Curriculum Concepts in Play-Based Contexts: Language and Literacy |
| ECE704 | Learning in and Through the Arts in Early Years |
| ECE705 | Integrative Curriculum Concepts in Play-Based Contexts: Mathematics and Science |
ECE761 Early Childhood Pedagogy, Curricula and Contexts [no longer available for enrolment]
Professional Experience Placement Units*
(*please note unit rules for order in which these must be completed)
| EPR781 | Orientation to the Teaching Profession (replaces EPR761) |
| EPR782 | Building Capacity in Professional Experience (replaces EPR712) |
| EPR714 | Curriculum, Pedagogies and Practices for Infants and Toddlers |
| EPR785 | Reflecting On Practice in Professional Experience (2 credit points, replaces EPR715) |
Specialisations
Students complete the remaining four credit points from one of following specialisations
Early Childhood Education Inquiry
| EDX701 | Research Design Development and Method |
| EIB702 | The Inquiring Child: the Role of Play in Children's Learning |
| EIB703 | Assessing and Documenting Learning in the Global Early Years Context |
| EDX707 | Independent Research Project for Professional Practice |
Research
| EDX701 | Research Design Development and Method |
| EDX712 | Theory and Methodology in Education Research |
| EDX703 | Research Paper A |
| EDX704 | Research Paper B |
International Baccalaureate Early Years (Primary Years Programme (PYP))
| EIB702 | The Inquiring Child: the Role of Play in Children's Learning |
| EIB703 | Assessing and Documenting Learning in the Global Early Years Context |
EIB701 Inquiry Learning Through the International Baccalaureate (PYP) [No longer available for enrolment]
EIB704 Planning for Inquiry Learning: Professional Practice and Portfolio [No longer available for enrolment]
Internship*
EPR704 Internship [No longer available for enrolment]
* Internship specialisation only available to students who commenced prior to 2022
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.