Bachelor of Education (Secondary)

Professional Outcomes

On successful completion of a Tabor Bachelor of Education (Secondary) degree students will be eligible to apply for their teacher registration with the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia. Graduates with this qualification are eligible to apply for positions in Department of Education, Christian and Independent schools, and employment nationally and overseas.

About This Course

Creating meaningful foundations to teach young adults.

Tabor professionally trains and personally develops passionate pre-service teachers; preparing them for teaching careers in all school settings – public, independent and Christian.

Tabor places significant focus on values-based teaching which recognises – and teaches pre-service teachers to recognise – the inherent dignity, worth and potential of school students. The Faculty of Education, with their wealth of domestic and international teaching experience, is instrumental in delivering interactive and rigorous curriculum. Our commitment to Work Integrated Learning prepares our graduates for teaching pedagogies in the 21st Century and beyond.

Tabor’s Bachelor of Education (Secondary) qualification rigorously prepares students for the process and challenges involved in teaching students from Years 7 to 12 (Stage 2). To complete the Bachelor qualification, pre-service students undertake a Major and Minor in Secondary curriculum learning areas. Tabor specialises in English, Mathematics, History, Design Technologies, Physical Education, Visual Arts, and Music, and credits other cross-curricular learning area studies.

Tabor is one of the state’s premier teaching colleges and places major emphasis on the art of meaningful teaching practice. Hallmarks of the course include personal and professional formation in aspects of wellbeing, Christian faith, ethics, and professional practice experiences across the educational sector which are sequenced to increasing depth, length, and complexity.

Tabor’s ongoing partnerships with schools means your professional experience (placements) can be completed in supportive and relevant classroom environments. This ensures our graduates are appropriately qualified in real-world settings. Professional Experience placements, totaling 103 days, begin in the first semester of the first year and exceed the minimum requirement of 80 days.

Another benefit of choosing Tabor is the college’s ease of accommodating cross institutional major or minor studies – you can pair your Tabor curriculum learning area studies with any other curriculum learning area units, such as Language Studies, Psychology, Media, Arts, Drama from another university or tertiary provider.

Tabor’s tertiary course content enables pre-service teachers to prepare for a career in teaching framed within a relational Christian worldview. Our experience shows that such a values-based framework produces teaching graduates with the balance of specialised and interpersonal skills necessary for teaching.

LANTITE (Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education)

All pre-service teachers must pass both parts of the ACER LANTITE to be eligible to graduate from the course. Tabor also has an excellent record of preservice teachers passing the LANTITE, due in part to its long-standing and proven literacy and numeracy testing and support program, and expectation of LANTITE testing early in the course.

CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL STUDY

You can apply to enrol in one major or minor learning area at another university and have that study count towards your degree. This is referred to as cross-institutional study. Prior to commencement you’ll need to get approval from both institutions separately.

The below list is not exhaustive but some examples of the common Major/Minor teaching areas which preservice teachers may select cross institutionally are:

• Drama
• Psychology
• Languages
• Legal Studies
• Geography
• Science* (General Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics) * Partial cross-institutional Study