Master of Teaching (Secondary Education)

The next intake of students for the MTeach program will be in March 2013.

Applicants for enrolment in the graduate-entry degree in secondary education must hold a bachelor's degree that satisfies the NSW Institute of Teachers requirements for accreditation. The details of the prerequisites for secondary teaching – as well as those of other Master of Teaching designations offered by the faculty – are published in detail under the separate MTeach prerequisites heading.

The MTeach (Secondary) requires candidates to specialise in one or two teaching areas, depending on what they wish to teach. Applicants wishing to teach science, maths, languages or HSIE (human society and its environment) are permitted to study these as "double method" areas, which means candidates do not need to qualify in a second teaching area. All available curriculum areas, including the for that have double-method options, are also offered as "single method" qualifications.

In every instance where applicants choose to study two "single method" curriculum areas, their undergraduate studies in at least one of these must meet the NSW Institute of Teachers prerequisites as a core teaching specialisation (1st Teaching Method). The second of the two "single method" curriculum areas may then be undertaken as a lesser specialisation (2nd Teaching Method), which need only to have been studied as a 'minor' in the candidate's undergraduate degree. Some areas such as 'Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages' and 'Classical Hebrew and Judaism' can only be studied as a 2nd Teaching Method.

Applicants for enrolment in the MTeach (Secondary) must satisfy the subject prerequisites for either one double-method curriculum area or two single-method areas.

Secondary curriculum areas

The following table lists the secondary-school curriculum areas that are usually offered in the MTeach (subject to quotas and demand). Beside each area is a brief description of the course content.