Pursue a rewarding career in primary school teaching with La Trobe's Bachelor of Education (Primary). Get the skills, experience and confidence to make a difference from your first day as a qualified teacher.

You'll become classroom ready with extensive in-school experience. You'll learn how to manage classrooms, design class plans, guide students, and create a safe and engaging learning space for your students.

You'll build discipline-specific knowledge, choosing from electives in science, languages, arts, health, psychology, health, mathematics, humanities, physical education and more.

Throughout your studies, you'll learn the latest evidence-based teaching techniques. Explore innovative pedagogies and learning sciences, and learn how to address the individual learning needs of each student.

You'll learn:

• Digital learning
  • Explore the world of digital learning in a way that's creative, collaborative and innovative.
• Learning contexts
  • Learn how to create safe, diverse learning environments for people of all ages and backgrounds.
• Literacy and numeracy
  • Understand key concepts and conventions of the English language and numeracy.
• Student development
  • Learn how to guide your students and nurture their talents, while helping them to grow their abilities.
• Classroom readiness
  • Prepare for the classroom with extensive in-school experience and guidance from our highly experienced and dedicated teaching academics.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 7 - Bachelor Degree.

Sample course structure

Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure. For more information, please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook.