Which uni for teaching? (1 Viewer)

[Wu Hou]

Is anyone here doing an bachelor of education?

Which uni are you at?
What kind of teaching are you doing?
Where's the best place to go?

 

[PrettyVacant]

Ooh get a teaching scholarship. There are 230 of them!

 

[Wu Hou]

Ooh get a teaching scholarship. There are 230 of them!

yeah that sounds good!

they're mostly available for secondary english, science and maths, hey?

 

[PrettyVacant]

Esp Maths and Science!!

And it's fully paid for and you're guaranteed a job. Too bad I'm not really sure of the details.

But starting salary's around 50 grand a year! =D

(You might stay there for a little while, but hey!)

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

I'm at USYD doing a BEd/BA. Secondary English and Drama. Not sure which is the "best" uni, but talk to some people who are further through their degree than I am and get their opinions.

 

[rozymisty]

If your in QLD, dont go to QUT, you dont get enough regular prac, classes are big. Id say go to Griffith or ACU. Id go with ACU, they have smaller classes.

 

[uhawww]

Personally I'd stay clear of education at UNSW, I just dropped my Bachelor of Education.. terrible subjects. From what I hear USYD seems pretty good.

Just a warning with those teaching scholarships too, unless you know you REALLY want to be a teacher, don't get them. They lock you into your degree and if you decide to transfer after a year or two you will need to pay everything back.

 

[phrred]

ACU is supposedly the best, USYD and MQ are also pretty good too apparently

 

[ellen.louise]

ACU is supposedly the best, USYD and MQ are also pretty good too apparently

Aust. Catholic?

 

[rozymisty]

I did 3 years of the course at QUT, and the reason I dropped out was because lack of prac. DEFINATELY pick a uni based on the amount of prac you can do. Apparently the courses can only have a set amount of prac hours, like with nursing (which im doing now, and only have one more semester to go) according to the registration boards.

And what I found really frustrating was the curriculum is vastly different from what I was expecting. Sure I was learning the yr 1-7 (10) Qld Curriculum which obviously you wouldnt be doing. But for example, the way they are teaching kids maths now a days is really confusing and the parents wonder why they cant help the kids with the homework. We were bascially being taught back from the very start how to do mulitplication and division, without using calculators, using this weird thing, which i cant even remember but it was soo confusing to us. But then again it was a practical way to teach them and try and improve the numeracy rates.

ACU is a very good uni for education. Mum did a primary education degree but was able to specialise in early childhood as well. So now she can teach like day care up to yr 7. Other uni's only allow you to either specialise in either primary or early childhood, but not both. Which is frustrating for those wanting only to teach the younger kids. Coz mum told me, along with many others, that if you do early childhood degree, you are more likely to wind up in a day care centre rather than kindy or preschool/prep.

But with ACU, you go there to teach in either the lutheran or catholic systems, and of course you need to be a catholic or lutheran...or at least i think have a religion. It is pretty heavy on the theology stuff--- spent many long nights trying to type up mums assignments for her and understand what on earth they were talking about lol.

 

[PrincessSJ]

Newcastle! Newcastle! Newcastle!

Come to the home of teh Quality Teaching Model... no seriously, they love us out in schools cause they think we are all experts on the Quality Teaching Model.. I'm in fourth year at the moment and I already have work lined up in Term 4 (when we get our interim approval from the Department) and I'll be running seminars for staff on the Quality Teaching Model and Values Education (another thing thats big at Newy)..

Nice campus, small classes sizes GREAT STAFF!! (well the education ones are.. the arts ones leave a little to be desired, but we get over that)..... all in all a nice place to be

Good luck!





Edit: Maybe you should post this in the 'Education' forum... you might get a few more responses in there..

 

[Wu Hou]

Thanks so much, guys!



I'm specifically interested in primary teaching, but since it seems like there aren't many jobs going there at the moment I've been looking at secondary teaching degrees to keep my options open.

So outside of sydney it sounds like Aust Catholic and Newcastle are some of the best?

Newcastle's convenient cause I live there but I kind of want to go somewhere else. Any ideas apart from that?

 

[rozymisty]

There are jobs out there, but to get a job, you kinda have to be prepared to start out bush or something. But if u do work out woop woop, they give you a travel allowance etc. There is also relief teaching as an option.

While you are doing the degree, sign up to work at your local after school care centre. Looks really good on your resume, and great experience with behaviour management etc.

If your looking at upper primary, maybe consider doing middle schooling, that way you can also teach like yr 5-10, gives you more job opportunities.

 

[ellen.louise]

Is melbourne any good?

 

[PrincessSJ]

There are PLENTY of jobs in Primary.... during your degree get out into schools and start volunteering... If a school knows you they will give you work!

I have been offered a position for term 4 of this year (after I complete my internship) at the school I have been volunteering and working as a teachers aide at for the past 4 years of my degree..

It's who you know in teaching.. so start meeting people!

 

[js5071]

so would you guys suggest doing a bachelor of arts then a post rad course instead of the B Education which like 4 -5 years?

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

DO NOT GO TO UNSW FOR A TEACHING DEGREE.

it's poor.

 

[js5071]

sorry another question
if i do a social science and major in the study of history, can ge my bachelor that way and still be eligable to do the Dip Ed?

 

[*Lozzie*]

im at UNE doing primary ed and its awesome

small classes, lots of prac even in first year and its great uni

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

My Auntie lives in Lake Cathie. True story.