Master of Teaching (Primary and Early Childhood)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2026 course information |
|---|---|
| Deakin course code | E764 |
| Course Credit Points | 16 |
| Course version | 2 |
| Faculty | |
| Course Information | For students who commenced from 2020 onwards |
| Final Intake | Offered to continuing students only. The final intake to this course was in teaching period 1, 2025. Students should contact Student Central for course, course map and enrolment information. |
| Duration | 2 years full-time - 16 credit points Deakin courses can also be studied part-time over a longer period. |
| Supplementary Information | This course is accredited with the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA). |
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 rules
To complete the Master of Teaching (Primary and Early Childhood) students must pass 16 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- ELN010 Australian Literacy Test (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
- ELN011 Australian Numeracy Test (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
- 16 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Note; Students are also required to complete 2 zero (0) credit point units ELN010 and ELN011 as part of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) in order to graduate from their course. Students are expected to attempt the tests within the first year of their course. Students who do not attempt the tests within their first year may be unable to progress with their studies until an attempt has been made.
Course structure
Core Units
Year 1
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (zero (0) credit points) |
| ELN010 | Australian Literacy Test (zero (0) credit points) |
| ELN011 | Australian Numeracy Test (zero (0) credit points) |
| EEE754 | Language, Literacies and Learning |
| EEE755 | Numeracy, Social Justice and New Pedagogies |
| EEE756 | Health, Wellbeing and Inclusive Education |
| EMP701 | Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy A |
| EMP704 | English and Literacy in Lower Primary |
| ECE761 | Early Childhood Pedagogy, Curricula and Contexts |
EPL746 Primary Literacy [No longer available for enrolment, EMP704 replaces this unit]
EPM742 Primary Mathematical Development [No longer available for enrolment, EMP701 replaces this unit]
Professional Experience Placement Units*
(*please note unit rules for order in which these must be completed)
| EPR781 | Orientation to the Teaching Profession |
| EPR782 | Building Capacity in Professional Experience |
EPR771 Curriculum Inquiry in Professional Experience [No longer available for enrolment, EPR784 replaces this unit]
EPR771 Orientaiton to the Teaching Profession [No longer available for enrolment, EPR781 replaces this unit]
EPR742 Building Capacity in Professional Experience [No longer available for enrolment, EPR782 replaces this unit]
Year 2
| ECE704 | Learning in and Through the Arts in Early Years |
| ECE705 | Integrative Curriculum Concepts in Play-Based Contexts: Mathematics and Science |
| EPS735 | Primary Science and Technology Education |
| EPO702 | Arts, Humanities and Sustainability in Primary Education |
| ECE703 | Integrative Curriculum Concepts in Play-Based Contexts: Language and Literacy |
Professional Experience Placement Units*
(*please note unit rules for order in which these must be completed)
| EPR784 | Curriculum Inquiry in Professional Experience |
| EPR786 | Transition to the Profession 1 |
| EPR787 | Transition to the Profession 2 |
EPR744 Curriculum Inquiry in Professional Experience [No longer available for enrolment, EPR784 replaces this unit]
EPR785 Reflecting On Practice in Professional Experience (2 credit points) [No longer available for enrolment, both EPR786 and EPR787 replace this unit]
Course duration
You may be able to study available units in the optional third trimester to fast-track your degree, however your course duration may be extended if there are delays in meeting course requirements, such as completing a placement.
Fees and charges
Tuition fees will vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, your study load and/or unit discipline.
Your tuition fees will increase annually at the start of each calendar year. All fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD) and do not include additional costs such as textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment, mandatory checks, travel, consumables and other costs.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.
Commonwealth Prac Payment - Domestic students only
The Australian Government has introduced the Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) to help eligible domestic students enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place studying teaching, nursing, midwifery, and social work cover the costs associated with mandatory placements. For more information on the eligibility criteria and application process please visit our Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) website.
Further information
Contact Student Central for assistance in course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements. Student Central can also provide information for a wide range of services at Deakin.