The Master of Teaching (Secondary) at QUT can transform your prior studies and experience into a teaching qualification. 

If you have a bachelor's degree that doesn't lead to teacher registration, the Master of Teaching offers a pathway to a rewarding career in teaching. 

Bring your passion for knowledge, work, and life experience to the teaching profession.

Curriculum studies will prepare you to use your existing knowledge to develop and plan effective teaching strategies to respond to the diverse needs of your students. 

Key classroom and behaviour management capabilities will be developed before undertaking your first professional experience in school. 

You will engage in up-to-date and relevant learning experiences designed to prepare you for your new career. 

You will have opportunities to develop and reflect on your professional identity and explore possible career directions.

This course is at the AQF Qualification 9 level. 

Graduates at this level will have specialised knowledge and skills for research, professional practice and further learning.

Professional experience 

QUT organises professional experience placements to allow you to work in various real school classrooms and other settings supervised by practising professional educators. 

• Award Certificates
• Academic Transcripts
• Passport or Visa Documents
• Translations of documents in a language other than English
• English Language Proficiency
• An online questionnaire
• Written statements

Entry requirements

You must have a completed recognised 3 or 4-year bachelor's degree not in education or a course leading to teacher registration.

You must also meet the first teaching area prerequisites.

Additional entry requirements

You must possess key competencies outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) as those attributes and motivations common to effective teachers.

You must complete an online questionnaire to demonstrate your motivation for and understanding of the course and profession. 

QUT will send details on completing the Initial Teacher Education Course (ITE) Capabilities Criteria questionnaire and submit your written statements after applying.

If you've achieved a satisfactory result for one or more components of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) at another Australian higher education institution, the satisfactory result can be carried across with your admission application. 

You are not eligible to apply for a place in this course if one or more components of LANTITE remain unsatisfactory after two test attempts for that component.

Prerequisites: first teaching area

You must nominate your first teaching area in your application. If you are not eligible for your nominated first teaching area, you will be considered for an alternative one. 

If you are offered a place, you will only be offered one first teaching area, detailed in your offer.

Refer to the teaching areas below for detailed information on the first teaching area prerequisites.

Science Education (Chemistry)

Either

• completion of at least three quarters of a year of full-time, degree (or higher) study (6 QUT units) in chemistry, preferably in:
  • physical chemistry
  • inorganic chemistry
  • bio-organic chemistry
  • analytical and environmental chemistry.
• A recognised bachelor's degree in:
  • biochemistry
  • biomedicine
  • chemical engineering
  • forensics
  • medical science
  • pharmacy.

Assumed knowledge: second teaching area

You must nominate your second teaching area on enrolment.

Your first and second teaching areas must be different.

To know about your chosen Second teaching area assumed knowledge, contact apply.visapick admission team.