Program Overview
This program provides a comprehensive understanding of Physical Sciences and essential teaching skills to prepare individuals to teach secondary school Science courses, including Physics and Chemistry. Students learn through diverse environments, including labs, tutorials, and practical placements, with a focus on engaging and motivating students. The program is in high demand due to the ongoing shortage of Science teachers in STEM fields and offers opportunities for hands-on experience, mentoring, and portfolio building.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This major will develop your understanding of the core concepts, subject matter and content relationships of Physical Sciences as well as the skills and knowledge on how to teach it! This involves learning about how adolescents learn, acquiring and practicing a range of strategies to engage and motivate, and learning about how to cater for students from different backgrounds. To understand the concepts behind Physical Sciences, a second teaching area of Mathematics is also required. this major is combined with the second teaching area of Maths. Secondary Science teachers (trained in Physics and Chemistry) are in high demand due to ongoing shortages in the STEM related fields. You’ll learn in a range of environments, from lectures and tutorials to labs and a range of practical placements. 3 reasons to study Education at Murdoch Get essential experience in a range of practical placements which could include metropolitan, rural, remote, international, hard-to-staff, multicultural, hospital, private and state school environments. Build an online portfolio as part of your degree to share your teaching experience with future employers. You’ll also be able to select a second teaching area from Mathematics, English, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science or Secondary Education Support.
Outline:
Total credit points: 30 | Unit code | Unit name | Credit points | |---|---|---| | EDN376 | Teaching Science | 3 | | EDN476 | Teaching Senior Secondary Science | 3 | | CHE144 | Foundations of Chemistry | 3 | | PEN152 | Principles of Physics | 3 | | CHE207 | Chemical Analysis | 3 | | CHE200 | Electromagnetism and Electrochemistry | 3 | | PEN200 | The Quantum Realm | 3 | | PEN201 | Thermodynamics for Chemistry and Physics | 3 | | | Specified Electives Choose two units from the following: | 6 credit points | | PEN120 | General Physics | 3 | | CHE140 | Fundamentals of Chemistry | 3 | | BIO103 | Environmental Biology | 3 |
Teaching:
You’ll learn in a range of environments, from lectures and tutorials to labs and a range of practical placements.
Careers:
This course gives you the qualification you need to teach Physical Science secondary students, including teaching Physics and Chemistry to Year 11 and 12 ATAR student as well as General Science. Furthermore, the second learning area of Mathematics combined with this degree provides you with the qualification to teach up to and including Year 11 and 12 ATAR Mathematics Specialist.
Other:
This major will develop your understanding of the core concepts, subject matter and content relationships of Physical Sciences as well as the skills and knowledge on how to teach it! This involves learning about how adolescents learn, acquiring and practicing a range of strategies to engage and motivate, and learning about how to cater for students from different backgrounds. Secondary Science teachers (trained in Physics and Chemistry) are in high demand due to ongoing shortages in the STEM related fields. Get essential experience in a range of practical placements which could include metropolitan, rural, remote, international, hard-to-staff, multicultural, hospital, private and state school environments. Build an online portfolio as part of your degree to share your teaching experience with future employers. You’ll also be able to select a second teaching area from Mathematics, English, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science or Secondary Education Support.
