Units you can choose

Choose from a professional experience package that suits your interests and corresponds with your studies at home or choose your own units based on your interests. Either way, you'll prepare for an unforgettable semester abroad in Australia.

Working with children

If you're working with children or young people as part of your studies or work experience, it is a legal requirement to have a blue card. You will need a current blue card for the following units:

You will spend 15 days in a local school classroom or early childhood setting with a supervising teacher at your preferred level (early childhood, primary or secondary). The other subjects you study alongside your teaching experience will provide you with knowledge about the Australian approach to curriculum and teaching strategies.

Applying for a blue card requires a criminal history check. If you are working with children or young people as part of your studies or work experience, you need to have a blue card before you begin your placement. You will be required to apply for a blue card once you enter Australia.

Apply through Blue Card Services

More information on blue cards at QUT

Vaccinations

As per Queensland Government Public Health Orders, there are new COVID-19 vaccine requirements for workers in high risk settings which includes pre-service teachers entering education settings (schools, kindergartens and early learning centres). From 23 January 2022, pre-service teachers entering these settings must be fully vaccinated, with a minimum of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccination.

Additionally, in response to industry partner requirements students undertaking early childhood placements must obtain proof of the following vaccinations prior to Professional Experience:

  • whooping cough
  • annual flu vaccine
  • measles, mumps, rubella
  • or a certificate of exemption for medical reasons from a GP or specialist doctor.

As a student, it is your responsibility to meet any costs associated with vaccinations. Several months may be required to complete the prescribed courses.

Professional Experience packages

Our packaged units are designed to provide you with an exceptional teaching experience in a supportive environment.

You will spend 15 days in a local school classroom with a supervising teacher at your preferred level (early childhood, primary or secondary). The other subjects you study alongside your teaching experience will provide you with knowledge about the Australian approach to curriculum and teaching strategies.

After selecting the right package for you, you must enrol in all units in that package. Some packages will give you option units to choose from. Each PEX package is 48cp.

Undergraduate students: Bachelor of Education Professional Experience (PEX) package - Semester 1

Package 1 - Early childhood
Package 2 - Primary
Package 3 - Secondary

Undergraduate students: Bachelor of Education Professional Experience (PEX) package - Semester 2

Package 4 - Early childhood
Package 5 - Primary
Package 6 - Secondary

Postgraduate students: Master of Teaching Professional Experience (PEX) packages – Semester 1 and 2

Package 7 - Early childhood postgraduate
Package 8 - Primary postgraduate
Package 9 - Secondary postgraduate

Professional experience for pre-service teachers

Other units

If the professional experience packages don’t suit your needs you can select other units.

For a full list visit all study abroad and exchange units.

Early childhood and inclusive education

EUB004 Including Students with Learning Difficulties

The aims of this unit are twofold: a) to develop your knowledge of the learning characteristics of students with learning difficulties (in reading, writing and math) and b) to build your capability to design evidence-based educational resources for supporting these students in inclusive contexts. This option unit will focus on evidence-based strategies to ensure identification and high quality instruction for students with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia) within a tiered support system. As a pre-service teacher, you will develop your competence to disseminate your scholarly knowledge to professional audiences.

EUB006 Differentiation and Gifted Education

The aim of this unit is develop your professional knowledge of the philosophy and pedagogy of differentiation, and how to extend learners in an inclusive education context (including learners who may be identified as gifted). The learning in this unit will develop your understanding and skills of designing differentiation to cater for diverse learners by adjusting the content, processes of teaching and learning, products of learning, and the learning environment. It will also develop your understandings about identifying gifted learners, and providing tiers of support to include and extend diverse learners in an inclusive setting. This unit is in the developmental stage of the course, and will link to other learning on inclusive education and pedagogical approaches.

EUB007 Understanding Reading Difficulties

The unit focuses on knowledge and pedagogical skills related to teaching students who experience difficulty learning to read. It will cover strategies for planning, teaching and assessing, and strategies for engaging parents/carers. The context for learning will be framed by the Australian Curriculum: English and current research, relevant literacies theories, and empirical research. The unit enables you to build informed professional practices for teaching students with reading difficulties.

EUB104 Future Focused Teaching

This unit introduces key concepts and skills required when working in education and understanding teachers' work.  This unit will provide explicit academic and professional experience preparation underpinned by the Australian Professional Standards designed to support you through your degree and transition to the profession. The specific skills of observation, reflection and collegial conversations with peers and key personnel from the field will be considered and applied to educational contexts.  

EUB106 Early Childhood Pedagogy, Curriculum and Play-Based Learning

This unit introduces key concepts about effective curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in early childhood education settings. Theories and approaches that inform best practice in early childhood education, including play-based learning, will be explored and evaluated. Further, these will be applied to plan learning experiences based on understandings of learners, curriculum sources, teaching, and assessment strategies. This unit will also introduce national and state curricular and policy documents, including the Early Years Learning Framework, the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline, and the National Quality Standard.

EUB108 Early Childhood Development and Learning (Birth-8 Years)

This unit introduces theories, features and processes of early childhood development and learning, from birth to 8 years. Child development and learning are shaped by both biological predispositions, and the interactions and experiences afforded to children in family and social contexts. Content in this unit is focused on children's physical, social and emotional development, along with speech, language and cognition. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives on child development are embedded in this unit. Knowledge about the inter-relatedness of each area of child development, including influences on how children develop and learn, is fundamental to early childhood education practice. Early childhood teachers apply child development knowledge to plan and facilitate appropriate learning experiences.

EUB109 English, Literacies and Language 1

This unit will develop your ability to teach English curriculum, literacy and language acquisition to young children, from birth to year 6. This unit develops your understanding of the effective use of children's literature in literacy teaching in prior-to-school and primary school settings. Early years literacy teaching and learning, including play-based pedagogies will be explored, with particular focus on birth to Year 3. The Early Years Learning Framework, Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline, and The Australian Curriculum will be used to explore the ways teachers assist children to build knowledge and skills with English, language and literacy as they transition from prior-to-school to formal school contexts.

EUB112 Child and Adolescent Development and Learning

This introductory unit contributes to foundational knowledge for your pre-service teaching degree. This first-year unit facilitates understanding of developmental theory and how it applies to child and adolescent learners. The unit raises awareness of the physical, cognitive, social and emotional factors that influence development. The unit explores the links between developmental theory and the processes of learning, as well as learning experiences that facilitate positive learning outcomes for diverse learners. The unit contributes to your own professional development as a lifelong, autonomous learner, capable of reflection and high-level thinking, and of enabling you, as an educator, to promote similar development in your learners.

EUB201 Early Childhood Mathematics Education 1

This introductory early childhood mathematics unit will develop your understanding of content knowledge and the teaching practices associated with Number and Algebra, including play-based pedagogies. The unit raises awareness of the importance of mathematical learning in early childhood, and considers ways to engage young children in meaningful mathematical learning in prior-to-school and primary school settings. Both the Australian Curriculum and Early Years Learning Framework will be utilised. This unit builds a foundation for the proceeding EUB302 Early Childhood Mathematics Education 2 unit.

EUB203 Science in Early Childhood

This unit focuses on the importance of quality science education for young children from birth to 8 years of age. In order to inspire young children to ask questions about their environment and become scientifically literate, teachers require knowledge of science concepts, pedagogy and curriculum, as well as diverse, contemporary and cultural perspectives on science education. This early childhood unit explores way to design and implement engaging science learning experiences that support children's conceptual development. It will build content knowledge, particularly in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics and earth, and space science. This unit will build on theories of teaching and learning to focus on inquiry-based and hands-on learning activities that are age-appropriate, early childhood science learning experiences.

EUB204 Building Partnerships with Families and Communities

Teaching and learning is enhanced when early childhood teachers build respectful and supportive relationships and work in partnership with families. This includes undertaking professional learning to enhance these skills. This unit promotes knowledge and understandings about the diversity, complexity and changing nature of contemporary childhoods, families and communities. This unit will draw on your experiences of working with children, families and communities in line with ACECQA requirements and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. It will explore professional responsibilities and the need for professional learning to develop skills for engaging in active communication, consultation and collaboration with families for effective partnerships and to develop links with other child and family services.

EUB205 Child Health, Wellbeing, Safety and Movement

To support children’s health and wellness, early childhood educators require the capacity to lead, plan, implement, and evaluate health practices in early childhood settings and to balance the health needs of individual children. Additionally, educators’ health and wellness is an important aspect of effective delivery of early childhood programs. This unit introduces foundational understandings related to child health, wellbeing, safety and movement that influence working with children, and that relate to the Australian Curriculum learning areas of Health and Physical Education and The Early Years Learning Framework. The unit focuses on food, nutrition and wellness principles as well as diverse, contemporary and cultural perspectives on health and wellness including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.

EUB206 Visual Arts and Media Arts Education

This unit is the first of two curriculum units in the arts and examines the basic content of the Visual and Media Arts and how students learn in these disciplines. The unit provides opportunities for practical exploration of these art forms and theories, and introduces arts pedagogies that emphasise the role of the arts in society and in the education and care of children from birth to 12 years of age. The arts play an important part in early childhood and primary education with the potential to inspire children to reach their creative potential, and to enrich their experiences in prior-to-school and primary school contexts. This Visual and Media Arts unit focuses on the historical, social, emotional, cultural, and educational importance of the arts.

EUB207 Inclusive Education: Teaching Diverse Learners

This unit will cover the fundamental concepts underpinning inclusive education and your obligations under national legislation, with an emphasis on evidence-based universal strategies for use in inclusive classrooms and prior-to-school settings. The learning in this unit will develop your understanding of quality differentiated teaching practice to support the engagement, participation, and achievement of diverse learners in inclusive settings. The unit aims to build your pedagogical agility and ethical practice for creating safe and supportive inclusive learning environments. It will enhance your responsiveness to the learning strengths, rights and requirements of diverse learners and your knowledge of universal strategies to teach diverse learners in inclusive settings.

EUB213 Inclusive Practices for Diverse Learners

This unit will cover the fundamental concepts underpinning inclusive education and your obligations under national legislation with emphasis on evidence-based universal strategies for use in inclusive classrooms. This unit focuses on why, when and how to make adjustments for diverse students including those with complex learning profiles (disabilities), in partnership with parents/carers and in collaboration with teacher aides and external professionals. The unit aims to build your pedagogical agility and ethical practice for creating safe and supportive inclusive learning environments for all students. It will enhance your responsiveness to the learning strengths, rights and requirements of diverse students and your knowledge of quality differentiated teaching practice and adjustments for teaching diverse students in inclusive classrooms.

EUB302 Early Childhood Mathematics Education 2

This unit will build your conceptual knowledge of early childhoold mathematics. You will practise pedagogical strategies to engage young children when learning about Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability. Through participation in this unit, you will be prepared to develop young children's early mathematics knowledge and processes through quality real-world learning experiences and in supportive learning environments from birth and into primary contexts. You will explore the Early Years Learning Framework, the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline, and the Australian Curriculum in relation to mathematics education. This unit extends upon knowledge gained in EUB201 and further develops your understandings, attitudes, values and skills in relation to early childhood mathematics.

EUB311 Indigenous Education

This unit provides foundational knowledge and skills to teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures as governed by the Australian Curriculum, Early Years Learning Framework and the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. It engages with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' knowledges, experiences, voices and perspectives and explores implications for practice through personal, professional and theoretical lenses. This unit provides opportunities to think deeply about the roles of teachers in diverse cultural and education contexts and establishes a critical foundation for practical teaching choices.

EUB410 Education and Society

This unit explores the complex relationship between our education system and the social and cultural contexts of which it is a part. The unit uses socio-cultural and sociological theory to better understand students and learners, as well as how students' and learners' diverse backgrounds, including the backgrounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, shape their experiences with the modern school or early childhood site. The unit will develop reflective and critical understandings of the socially, culturally and historically constructed nature of education and care and of the social identities and socio-cultural practices influencing contemporary early childhood, primary and secondary schooling.

EUB411 Trauma-Aware Education

This unit is designed to develop your understanding and skill in neuroscience-informed support and education of early childhood and school learners who are living with the outcomes of complex childhood trauma. The behavioural and other concerns experienced by learners who have experienced complex trauma can be significant. By examining the impact of complex trauma on the developing brain and nervous system, you'll develop your understanding of why and how these concerns occur and explore approaches and strategies recommended to address short and longer-term impacts for learners. You'll be informed and prepared for the times you are responsible for the learning and well-being of these learners whilst minimising any negative impact on your own well-being or teaching practice.

Teacher education and leadership

EUB210 Science in Primary Education 1

This unit will introduce you to science content knowledge and practices required to teach primary science from Foundation to Year 6. The content is relevant to the Science Understanding, Science as a Human Endeavour, and Science Inquiry Skills strands of the Australian Curriculum. It includes big ideas from the biology, chemistry, physics, and Earth and Space science disciplines. Adequate science disciplinary content knowledge has recently become a more focused requirement of Australian teachers working within educational systems. This unit will be built upon in EUB212 Science in Primary Education 2, where you will develop the knowledge and skills to plan, sequence, and assess inquiry-based student learning in primary science education using constructivism as a referent for your science teaching practice.

EUB250 Australian Geographical Studies

This unit explores the unique nature of the Australian continent, its landforms and landscapes, it's people and places. A vast nation with a small population, Australia is faced with challenges of remoteness not found in other regions of the world. This remoteness shapes the identity of places and the relationships of people with their environment and poses challenges for sustainability and liveability. Australia is home to the one of world's oldest living cultures, that of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have a connection and relationship with the land that shapes their identity and underpins their belief systems. In this unit you will gain an understanding of Indigenous peoples' perspectives on the creation of and relationships with land. The skills and knowledge acquired in this unit are valued in a range of academic endeavours including regional and urban planning, resource management, native title, emergency management, environmental management.

EUB251 Environment and Society

This unit provides an applied geography approach to understand the dynamic nature of interactions between people and their environments, and the ways environments influence people's attitudes, perceptions, choices and decisions. This is a skills-based unit that provides an opportunity to transform, represent and analyse geographical data and information to recognise spatial and temporal patterns and trends and explain how these represent contemporary geographical challenges.The skills developed in this unit are applicable across a range of other academic geography and social science subjects and are utilised by specialists in a diverse range of professions including economists, demographers, spatial technicians, criminologists, environmental analysists and managers, urban and regional planners and those in hazard management professions.

EUB252 Australian Society and Culture

Australian Society and Culture combines literary and cultural studies, political analysis and history. It provides a context through which you can acquire knowledge about Australian institutions and traditions. Over the last few centuries, numerous social, cultural and political ideas, policies and actions have shaped and re-constructed Australian society. Understanding how Australia has evolved as a nation, a community, a culture and a people involves critically analysing various constructions, meanings and interpretations. A study of Australian society and culture will therefore involve an appreciation of Australian people and the significant political and social debates that they engage in. This unit offers insights and understandings about issues that divide Australians as well as events and circumstances that unite the nation.

EUB253 The Ancient World

This unit facilitates understandings of ancient societies focusing on selected periods, features and individuals in the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Such understandings encourage questioning of established interpretations and knowledge, and provides a foundational understanding of these historical periods.

EUB254 Studies in Language

Pre-service English language teachers require a solid foundational understanding of the nature, complexity and diversity of language; of the ways in which it is acquired and learned and how it is used to perform a range of cognitive, social, cultural and personal functions. These understandings about language and literacy development are related to a broad range of teaching contexts, both local and international. This unit will enable you  to gain insight into various aspects of language that impact on teaching and learning in schools. The unit will develop your awareness of the nature, function and development of language and literacy and the role each plays in the constitution of social and cultural processes and practices, with particular reference to the role of language in classroom contexts. It aims also to provide you with a critical literacy tool kit and also extend your understanding of the dynamic, changing nature of 'English' in the current global context.

EUB255 Literature: Theory and Practice

This unit provides you with opportunities to explore literature and fiction, theories of how literary and fictional works are produced, and to engage in creative writing. You will explore, as both consumers and creators, how fictional texts can convey and transform personal and cultural perspectives. The unit invites you to draw on a very wide repertoire of fictional texts across all media in interpreting and creating texts for professional, personal, cultural, social and aesthetic purposes.

EUB257 Reasoning with Quantity, Space and Shape

A deeper understanding of measurement, shape and space will allow you to apply your mathematical knowledge to problems of interest in the real world. This in turn will provide you with new ways to explain mathematics to others and to assist them in their learning. In this unit you will further apply your growing mathematical knowledge-base, built from earlier discipline units, to problems of both real world and abstract natures that involve the use of measurement and geometry concepts. This unit intends to give you greater confidence in explaining mathematical ideas to others by exposing you to different applications and links between mathematical topics.

EUB303 Technologies Education

Technologies impact the lives of people globally and are essential to envisioning and developing innovative solutions to meet both current and future needs. This unit focuses on Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies - two distinct learning areas from the Australian Curriculum. Topics covered in this unit are the theoretical approaches, practical experiences, and the development of communities of practice as relevant to teaching in the technologies learning area. This unit also includes practical application of the ICT general capability.

EUB310 Teaching EAL/D Learners

Teaching English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) introduces key concepts and skills that are foundational to understanding, engaging, and supporting English language learners in secondary education contexts. This unit helps to support literacy learning and development of EAL/D learners. It relates to teachers’ professional work in knowing diverse learners and planning quality differentiated teaching practice for learners who are acquiring English as an additional language. This unit is at the developed level of the course, and supports the knowledge and orientations that you will explore in other units, in particular in the Cultural Studies: Indigenous Education unit. It also complements curriculum knowledge and skills that you are learning about through other units.

EUB344 Professional Experiences: Informing Professional Practice

This unit focuses on developing the professional knowledge and practices associated with evidence of learning and evidence of impact. It will include strategies for assessing and quality- assuring teacher judgements of student achievement. Data management, interpretation and analysis skills will be introduced, and factors that influence the measures of student performance. You will participate in 15 days of professional experience. Learning in this unit will be related to preparing for and reflecting on the time you will spend in a school. You will also focus on developing skills and practices for professional resilience, specifically, personal wellbeing.

EUB350 Asia in Focus

This unit provides the opportunity to engage with a range of physical and human geography topics with Asia as the focus. A regional geography approach is used to explore and understand the features, elements and characteristics of the human and physical landscapes as well as the interconnection between Asian nations and Australia. A case study approach is used with topics include sustainability and liveability of places; natural and ecological hazard zones and the risks in these zones; population, urbanisation and the emergence of megacities; the unique and diverse physical environments and the relationships people have with places across Asia.Utilising a range of geographical technologies, this unit provides valuable analytical skills, including spatial analysis, that are valued in a range of professions including regional planning, foreign affairs, journalism, environmental management, emergency services, hazard management, resource management and global security.

EUB352 Medieval Europe and the World

This unit traces the evolution of Europe from the Fall of Rome in the 5th century through to the centuries usually defined as the High Middle Ages including Renaissance and the Reformation periods. On a thematic level, the unit selectively examines topics concerned with political, religious and intellectual developments, along with the cultural history of Medieval Europe. You will develop an understanding of how events and forces have contributed to societal, political and cultural change in Europe in Medieval times. The Middle Ages constitute a crucial period in the formation of a European identity. The breakdown of the Roman world saw the gradual emergence of a Christian civilisation of striking originality. At the same time, it gave rise to political fragmentation, as well as to national characteristics and antagonisms that are still part of the European scene today. The content of this unit offers you understandings of issues that are still of central concern in our society.

EUB353 China and its Region

The unit provides you with the knowledge the ancient beginnings of Dynastic China,  to Western Imperialism, through to the rise of Communism and Maoist China. The role of powerful individuals, and an understanding of how the country's fortunes changed over time are additional features of the content. To enhance understanding, and for comparative purposes, the unit also examines significant events in the history of India and Cambodia. Through appreciating the circumstances and personalities that have shaped China and its neighbours historically, you will be able to more readily and articulately analyse and interpret major events taking place in modern China.

EUB354 Screen Studies and New Media

This unit provides you with opportunities to explore screen and moving image media and their functions as important sources of information, education, cultural exchange and participation. The unit introduces you to different schools of theory in these areas and provides you with the tools to analyse and evaluate a wide diversity of screen texts and to work creatively with these texts. You will gain a working familiarity with a number of new media platforms.

EUB356 Mathematics in Everyday Contexts

Applying mathematics and statistics to investigate real world phenomena and solve related problems is considered by some to be the ideal way the engage learners in mathematics and to illuminate for them, the most difficult ideas. In this unit you will draw on mathematical and statistical techniques of preceding discipline units, applying them to real world problems from a variety of contexts.

EUB407 Health and Physical Education: Wellbeing, Families and Communities

This unit prepares you to teach health education (wellbeing) in the primary school context. Student wellbeing is a central focus for learning, with both policy and the Australian Curriculum stating the importance of such teaching and learning. You will develop pedagogical knowledge on anti-bullying frameworks and pedagogies, diversity (including sex, gender, sexuality and culture), respectful relationships, and safe and responsible choices. This unit supports the introduction of the health and physical education curriculum with a focus on the personal, social, and community health strand.

EUB409 Innovative Learning and Teaching with Digital Technologies

In this unit you will explore the use of digital technologies in learning and teaching. You will consider the place of digital technologies in learning and teaching in early childhood, primary school, and secondary school settings, and engage with educational theory and research as well as relevant curricula and policy requirements. Building on reflections of previous professional practice and experience, you will identify opportunities for improvement or innovation, and then design an innovative digital learning experience.

EUB450 Geography in the Field

This unit provides an opportunity to develop fieldwork design skills as well as practical fieldwork skills for gathering data, making observations, and recording information in the field. Fieldwork is carried out in both urban and natural environments within the Greater Brisbane area. Ways of representing and analysing data gathered in the field will provide the opportunity to develop cartographic, graphic and analytical skills. You will propose, design and carry out your own fieldwork and report on your findings. The skills developed in this unit are relevant to a wide range of professions within the geography, science and education fields that rely on project design, data collection and analysis and analytical reporting, including proposing action to identified geographical challenges.

EUB451 Australia, Britain and America

This unit focuses on British and American social and political influences on Australian foreign policy and social attitudes since 1900. It investigates Australia's, America's and Britain's relationship. The content examines World War 1, the interwar-years, World War 2 and the post-World War 2 period. A secondary objective is to examine the fight for independence and democracy, particularly in a number of former colonial countries. Before World War 2, reverence for the British Empire and appreciation of its protection influenced Australian attitudes and governmental decision-making. Most Australians seldom questioned this close relationship. During and after World War 2, America became Australia's great and powerful friend - and the influence of Britain diminished. Nevertheless, public affection for the mother country did not dissipate so quickly.

EUB452 Integrated STEM Investigation Project

Practitioners of the sciences almost always require an ability to define problems, connected with the needs and values of others, formulate justifiable questions, develop investigation methods that are rigorous and evidence-based, interpret data, and communicate findings verbally and in writing. This unit will build on foundational and specialist discipline knowledge gained throughout your units of prior study. This unit prepares you to think critically about an important problem related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and to integrate the knowledge gained through earlier units to provide an effective solution. During this project you will critically analyse and reflect on your work and that of your peers, you will gain a deeper understanding of scientific methods, technology design and/or mathematical modelling and reasoning, and will become confident in applying them.

Students need specific academic background knowledge to study these units, so we will assess your eligibility and determine if you’re able to take these units after you apply. We will let you know the outcome through the application portal as soon as possible.

Early childhood and inclusive education

EUB011 Community Engagement in International, Rural and Remote

This unit investigates diversity and professional engagement in international, rural or remote contexts. Understanding personal cultural identity, diverse contexts and the impact cultural identity has on working in diverse contexts is essential for professional engagement. This unit explores evidence-based approaches to working in diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socio-economic contexts, including strategies and frameworks for developing intercultural competence.  The unit encompasses an international, rural or remote education experience organised through QUT. Please note: This unit is offered in flexible teaching periods. Flexible Period B extends from October to February the following year. Hence, it is recommended that you take this unit prior to your final year of study. If undertaking this unit in the second half of your final year (Flexible Period B offering), you will not be eligible to graduate until during the following year.

EUB401 Teaching Learners with Complex Learning Profiles

This unit will cover targeted strategies for learners with complex learning profiles in inclusive classrooms in prior-to-school and formal school contexts. This unit focuses on why, when, and how to make adjustments in accordance with the Disability Standards for Education 2005. It will teach you how to implement these adjustments in partnership with parents/carers and in collaboration with relevant professionals. The learning in this unit will develop your understanding of learners with complex learning profiles. It will develop your capability to plan and enact supplementary, substantial and extensive adjustments to curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and environment within prior-to-school and primary school contexts. The unit is offered at the mastery stage of the course to develop your ability to teach learners with complex learning profiles. It builds on your learning in EUB207 and is related to other units covering pedagogical and curriculum approaches.

EUB404 Leadership, Management and Advocacy

In this unit you will explore essential elements of quality early childhood education and care, including leadership, management and advocacy. These are essential when building strong, respectful and meaningful relationships with children, families and staff. Understandings of leadership, management and advocacy from diverse, contemporary and cultural perspectives, enable early childhood educators to work optimally with diverse children, families and communities in varying early childhood contexts. Through exploring leadership and management theories and approaches to advocacy from contemporary research and literature you will expand upon and master your existing skills. Advocacy and its capacity to affect change and growth is integral to the unit. Social justice, ethics, and equity are explored as effective principles for the successful leadership in early childhood services. This unit will support your preparation for the QTPA and includes a Work Integrated Learning project. 

EUN113 Inclusive Teaching for Diverse Learners

Within the current policy and legislative context in Australia, teachers are required to respond to the needs of diverse learners and offer support through a multi-tiered response model, which integrates Quality Differentiated Teaching Practice and levels of adjustments for diverse groups of learners. The Australian Curriculum and The Early Years Learning Framework have been designed to enable flexible access for all learners. This unit will develop your understanding of the fundamental concepts underpinning international and national policy and legislation, and your ability to apply inclusive teaching strategies across all educational contexts, to cater for diversity, including learners for whom English is an Additional Language and/or Dialect (EAL/D), learners with disability and gifted and talented learners.

EUN160 Professional Experience: Introduction to Professional Practice

This unit prepares you for your first professional experience and planning for learning. You will develop planning skills to construct lesson plans that include learning goals and a range of teaching strategies. The unit will include planning for classroom management, strategies to support student engagement and a focus on planning for comprehension, text knowledge and literacy. The unit will also include verbal and non-verbal communications strategies to support student engagement in an educational setting. In preparation for placement, you will learn about system, curriculum and legislative requirements for working in educational settings. The unit incorporates a 15 day professional experience in a primary or secondary school setting. 

EUN261 Professional Experience: Creating Positive Learning Environments in Early Childhood Contexts

In this unit, you will develop knowledge of practical approaches to creating positive and inclusive learning environments that support student learning and well-being. This unit will focus on developing relationships, understanding and getting to know babies and children, communicating expectations and research-based strategies that foster engagement, positive interactions and limit challenging behaviours. In preparation for your second professional experience, you will learn about evidence-based strategies that focus on preventative practices and practical skills to maintain safe, supportive and inclusive environments for the whole group, small groups and addressing diversity. This unit incorporates a 10-day professional experience in an Early Childhood Setting (Birth - 2) and 20-day professional experience in a Kindergarten setting.

Teacher education and leadership

EUN106 English, Language and Literacies 1: Early and Primary Reading

The Early Years Learning Framework and Primary English curriculum provide key contexts for the development of literacy skills and knowledges. Literacy is an area of concern for all early childhood and primary teachers, and comprises the largest proportion of daily learning. In current times it is vital for all learners to understand and work with texts across a variety of modes, therefore oral language, print reading and writing are key components of this unit. There will be a focus on the teaching of phonics, speaking (oral language), listening, reading fluency, reading comprehension, viewing and assessment of these vital English skills, drawing on current learning frameworks and curriculum documents. Elements of this unit interconnect with EUN201. A further aim of the unit is for you to develop your own academic, personal and professional literacy capabilities.

EUN107 Mathematics and Numeracy 1

The development of mathematics knowledge, skills and applications across a wide range of situations is critical for your development as an early childhood or primary teacher. Mathematics knowledge and skills are included in your course because you will develop theoretical and practical knowledge to support learners as they learn to become numerate. This unit provides you with the foundations of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics - Number and Measurement strands. Dispositions for learning in early numeracy is explored in the Early Years Learning Framework and the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. You will develop your confidence and capacity to teach Number and Measurement and their interconnections with other curriculum areas, educational contexts and wider society.

EUN108 Science and Sustainability Education

Science is necessary for understanding and caring for the world around us. From birth onwards, children actively explore their environment and try to make sense of their world. You will enhance your content knowledge in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics and earth and space science, through your participation in inquiry-based and hands-on learning. This learning will be integrated with pedagogical content and curriculum knowledge to strengthen your repertoire of instructional approaches for teaching all learners. This unit will build on theories of teaching and learning from previous units including literacy, numeracy, and digital literacies, and will provide you with the knowledge and skills to develop and implement differentiated science and sustainability learning experiences.

EUN202 Mathematics and Numeracy 2

You will explore and continue to build your knowledge and skills to use the strands and their associated topics across a wide range of situations and contexts to enhance your development as a teacher. This focus is included in your course because you will need to teach children how to become numerate and be able to make sound decisions in their lives. This unit provides you with the foundations of two strands of the Australian Curriculum: (i) Mathematics - Mathematics - geometry, algebra, statistics and probability. Dispositions for learning in early numeracy is also explored in relation to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. It seeks to build your capacity to recognise the numeracy demands across a range of contexts to assist all children to identify the interconnectedness of mathematical knowledge and its application in everyday life. 

EUN262 Professional Experience: Creating Positive Learning Environments in School Contexts

In this unit, you will develop knowledge of practical approaches to classroom and behaviour management that supports student learning and well-being.  This unit will focus on developing positive and safe learning environments through developing classroom processes and procedures, communicating expectations and research-based strategies that limit the incidence and impact of challenging behaviours.  In preparation for your second professional experience, you will learn about evidence-based classroom strategies that focus on preventative practices and practical skills to maintain safe, orderly and inclusive environments for the whole class, small groups and addressing student diversity. This unit incorporates a 20-day professional experience in a primary or secondary school.

EUN631 STEM for 21st Century Learners

STEM provides a disciplinary context through which learners of all ages, in formal and informal settings, can develop what are often referred to as 21st Century Skills, including critical and creative thinking, collaboration, communication, innovation and entrepreneurism, and digital fluency. In turn, the development of these skills supports the development and enhancement of conceptual understanding across the STEM disciplines. This unit, the first in the STEM in Education study area, introduces various conceptual frameworks for understanding STEM in Education that will be further explored in other units of the study area. This unit will prompt you to critically reflect upon your experiences of STEM education and to identify opportunities to further support the learning of STEM and the development of 21st century skills. You will connect with peers who represent a broad cross section of STEM education contexts and who share an interest in advancing STEM education.

EUN633 Thinking in STEM

STEM curricula make various references to types of discipline-specific thinking (e.g., mathematical modelling, scientific inquiry, systems thinking, computational thinking, and design thinking), as well as the more general skills of critical and creative thinking, collaboration and communication. Understanding such types of thinking supports a connected approach to STEM teaching and learning.

EUN634 STEM Pedagogies

Productive work in the STEM fields is often associated with some form of question-posing and problem solving, and authentic STEM learning hinges on learners curiously inquiring into the world around them. Pedagogies have been developed that can be used in STEM education to promote such inquiry-oriented learning, including those that make significant use of digital technologies to support learning. Through such learning approaches, learners not only develop understanding about STEM concepts and propose solutions to problems, but they also authentically develop various higher-order thinking skills.

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