Hi, and welcome to Flinders University.
My name's Sarah Wight, I'm Program Coordinator
for early childhood and a Lecturer in Education.
My background as an earliest teacher
is in Government Independent and Catholic Sites
in South Australia and interstate.
I'm very passionate about ensuring that every child
has an equitable access and about hearing child
and student voice.
Education at Flinders is all about creating a social impact.
We work very closely with our partnership sites.
Certainly when you come to Flinders
and you speak to the academics and the lecturers
who you'll be working with,
you'll see that they have lots of wonderful stories
about how they came to teaching.
Our Master of Teaching program at Flinders University
is a two year postgraduate qualification.
So you will use your undergraduate study
to inform your Master of Teaching studies.
There are good career prospects
if you come to education.
Quality educators are needed now more than ever before.
We also have many students who travel interstate
and work internationally.
And if you speak to our current students or graduates,
they'll also talk to you about the quality of their overall
experience at Flinders University.
The Master of Teaching Early Childhood,
this is a degree that is birth to eight.
So you will have some wonderful experiences
with our partnership sites.
Through your university studies,
we will prepare you for your professional experience.
The Master of Teaching Primary Program,
you'll work with children from reception to year seven,
and this will be towards your teacher registration.
You'll use your undergraduate studies
to inform your Master of Teaching.
It's a really wonderful program,
very broad you'll work with the Australian curriculum,
and we'll take you through it every step of the way.
The Master of Teaching Special Education program
is a wonderful course.
So you will learn about inclusive education,
but also learn to work in the reception to year seven space.
We'll give you a really great grounding in the curriculum,
but also lots of practical application as well.
One teaching area from your undergraduate studies
will be required for the Master of Special Education
Secondary Stream, a Master of Teaching Secondary Program,
you'll use two teaching areas
from your undergraduate studies.
Education topics within a Master of Teaching
Secondary Program will help you to build
on your previous studies and develop you into a well rounded
educator and a specialist in your field.
What else do you need to know
about the Master of Teaching at Flinders?
Well, it's delivered internally, so on campus,
and it's a two year degree.
Academic and non-academic entry standards will apply
to the Master of Teaching Programs.
You'll need to have a criminal history check.
You need to meet literacy and numeracy standards.
And you'll also complete a teacher capability statement
for entry, which will explain why you want to be a teacher,
why education matters.
That education students or pre service teachers,
as you'll be known as, get to know what it's like
to actually work in early childhood and school settings.
In our Master of Teaching Programs,
you'll experience a six week block in your first
and second year, and your university studies
will support you towards being prepared for that.
You will also be supported whilst you're on placement
with liaison visits and contact with the university.
So we really want you to be successful.
We have excellent partnerships with early childhood primary,
secondary and special education sites.
And we have great opportunities for you to experience
lots of different settings.
So some of our students will actually make a request
for a specific type of setting
and our work integrated learning
and our professional experience team,
work incredibly hard to try and secure
those sort of placements.
We have pre service teachers who complete their professional
experience in independent sites, Catholic sites,
government sites, in terms of early childhood settings
for profit and not for profit.
Most recently, we've had students
who've also had placements in Montessori,
Reggio-inspired settings, and also Steiner as well.
So those partnerships have been really wonderful.
You will have opportunities to do placements
in metropolitan, rural and remote settings.
We also have students who travel interstate.
We also had students who went to Fiji and Vanuatu
just to name a couple of the places
our students traveled to.
We tend to find that on professional experience,
everything falls into place, it all makes sense.
And you have so much more to offer your university studies
when you return for your next semester.
Our pre service teachers are incredibly well supported
by our amazing mentor teachers who work in sites.
So you're working alongside an experienced mentor teacher
who will help you develop and eventually meet the graduate
standards for graduation.
Our campus at Bedford Park is expansive
with amazing grounds.
For student experiences added to by our wonderful library,
the study spaces,
eateries, the campus really does come alive.
We think you'll find Flinders to be a really welcoming
place to be.
Our academics, their research and scholarships,
so their interest in learning and developing themselves,
informs the work that they'll actually do with you also.
Our Master of Teaching Programs,
you'll get to know your lecturers and tutors very well.
Something to be mindful of is that we have researched
pathways beyond the study that you're considering
at the moment, and we really do encourage our students
to come back and follow these research pathways,
to inquire, to think, to be the change.
On the other side of this,
you have great career prospects.
You can come and do a job that matters,
that creates a change.
Thank you for visiting Flinders University.
We look forward to welcoming you on campus soon.