The Bachelor of Education equips you with the most relevant and up-to-date knowledge and skills to be 'classroom ready' and to gain employment. RMIT has one of the highest employability rates of Victorian Teacher Education providers with over 95% of our student’s finding employment after graduating. (Based on Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019 - 2021).
Our program intake is kept small to ensure that we can provide you with a personalised learning experience based on your unique needs and interests. We will support you to develop your own teacher identity, agency and leadership in learning and teaching.
You can choose from streams in general primary, early childhood, disability inclusion, or physical education and sport. You'll also have the opportunity to swap streams should you change your mind about where you would like to specialise. Through your subject selection, you can also deeply explore English, Mathematics, and STEM as specialisations.
In our program you will experience a variety of contemporary and interactive learning and teaching approaches. You won't attend lectures; all your classes are in the form of small group learning environments and workshops, giving you a hands-on and inclusive experience from day one.
The professional experience that was accompanied with this course was an exceptional experience! By far my favourite thing that we have done so far! I cannot wait to get out and start teaching.
(First-year student)
Combining hands-on experiences with theoretical learning, you will build the skills you need to be an effective and influential teacher in a variety of settings. We offer you 80+ days of professional placement, giving you the opportunity to gain real-world experience. There are opportunities to conduct placement in a variety of educational and professional settings, including those in rural, regional, and metropolitan areas.
RMIT has strong and active relationships with many partner schools, communities and enterprises, which help us to find you the most valuable professional experience placements.
Complete your program in 3.5 years and look for employment as a graduate when the education sector often advertises new appointments and whilst others are still completing their degrees.
We have ensured that from Year 1, professional experience is integrated in the program with coursework. In this way, you can draw on theoretical frameworks or practices that you learn about at university and adapt them in response to specific classroom contexts at any given time. Our placements are scaffolded throughout our program to further develop your skills and practice in teaching and learning each time you go on placement. For example, in your first placement, you will be placed in a small group in a partner school where you will be supported by a high-quality teacher mentor. During your placement, workshops are taught by a school-based teacher mentor to help you to link to what you are learning.
This approach to professional placements has evolved through our work in the Teaching Academies of Professional Practice (Department of Education and Training Victoria), where we have established strong partnerships with several schools. By the end of the program, you will undertake the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment where you will independently complete a whole planning, teaching and assessment cycle, demonstrate how you use evidence of student learning to target your teaching and show that you are ‘classroom ready’.
