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The Faculty of Education introduced its two-year Master of Teaching degrees knowing that professional confi dence is a direct result of investment in pre-service teacher education.

Graduates who enrol in the Master of Teaching degrees ( Early Childhood , Primary or Secondary ) will now benefit from an extra year’s tuition prior to commencement in a professional role.

Until recently, the UWA pathway to becoming a secondary teacher has been to enrol in a three year undergraduate degree followed by a one year Diploma of Education course.

The new two-year Master of Teaching (Secondary) program will eventually replace the Diploma of Education which will be phased out in accordance with Federal requirements.

The advantages of the Master of Teaching degrees are that they offer all pre-service teachers:

• Specific instruction in the teaching of language and literacy
• Specific instruction in the new digital literacies
• Increased supervised classroom teaching experience
• An opportunity to develop and sustain research interests

Findings from research into middle school literacy and numeracy indicate that secondary teachers without knowledge of language acquisition are challenged in their efforts to accurately diagnose learning difficulties if they are not familiar with the various pathways to language and number competence.

The Master of Teaching program has been designed to address current challenges in education.