Bachelor (Honours)
This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and experience to graduate ready for the classroom, and for the profession. Develop your knowledge and understanding of how children learn and the implications for teaching and how to create safe, inclusive, engaging and supportive learning environments, combined with hands-on learning as you spend over 100 days of professional placement in primary schools, starting from your first semester.
Make a real difference to young children's lives and equip them with the skills, knowledge and values needed to succeed in the world, now and in the future. This distinctive undergraduate teaching degree prepares you to be a teacher from Pre-primary to Year 6 and gives you the skills and knowledge to be classroom and profession-ready.
Make a real difference to young children's lives and equip them with the skills, knowledge and values needed to succeed in the world, now and in the future. This distinctive undergraduate teaching degree prepares you to be a teacher from Pre-primary to Year 6 and gives you the skills and knowledge to be profession-ready.
You'll develop in-depth knowledge of the primary curriculum, be exposed to a range of teaching strategies, and undertake professional placements supervised by a practising teacher. You'll also be taught by inspiring and innovative lecturers, be given experiences in schools across a diverse range of settings, and will develop your knowledge, confidence and skills through both classroom and experience-based learning. You'll be required to pass the National Literacy and Numeracy Test (LANTITE) as well as a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA).
In your first three years, you will complete units that familiarise you with all of the learning areas of the primary school curriculum, as well as developmental and learning theory that enables you to design effective learning programs.
Study Plan [110KB PDF]
In your first three years, you will complete units that familiarise you with all of the learning areas of the primary school curriculum, as well as developmental and learning theory that enables you to design effective learning programs. You will also gain essential knowledge and understandings about inclusive education and how to design learning programs for primary children from diverse backgrounds.
You will learn about Indigenous histories and perspectives and how to incorporate Indigenous perspectives into your curriculum planning. You will have opportunities to learn about and apply a range of digital tools to support your learning and that of the children you will teach. You will have the opportunity to choose an area of specialisation that will add value to your primary qualification. In your final semester, you will complete an honours project that will be linked to your specialisation and which can be completed as either a formal dissertation or an action research project.
Study Plan [110KB PDF]
This course places you in the classroom from your first semester, with over 100 days of professional experience throughout your degree (the minimum number of days required from the TRB is 80).
This will provide you with the skills and experience to form effective working relationships and develop your professional experience in education.
Find out about the hands-on opportunities, innovative teaching approach and more with the Bachelor of Education (Primary) (Honours) that will set you up with skills and knowledge to make a real difference in young children's lives.
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Join a community of life-long learners and researchers, from your peers and educators to the schools that we partner with. Take advantage of professional placement experiences in this course, in addition to in-school opportunities at our partnership schools, including Albany Primary School. This provides further opportunities to connect theory to practice, observe teachers and students during lessons in classrooms, and participate in school based activities, including professional learning.
The Anglican Schools Commission (ASC) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) are running an innovative trial, the Professional Immersion Program for Educators (PIPE). Available for students enrolled in UWA's Bachelor of Education (Primary) (Honours) program and provides the opportunity for paid work alongside a dedicated mentor teacher.