+61 7 4930 512 or email: a.harrison@cqu.edu.au

+61 7 4930 9351 or email: c.tomlin@cqu.edu.au

The objective of  the program are to provide students with:

• academic preparation for professional practice and leadership in the field of science/education;
• opportunities to extend professional expertise and interests in science education;
• opportunities to develop science teching pedagogical content knowledge suited to personal teaching needs;
• understandings of student alternative conceptions that hinder science learning and problem solving;
• opportunities to explore modern learning theories that are relevant to science teaching and learning;
• completion of the first phase of a learning journey in which content knowledge, pedagogy and metacognitive relfecton enables the teacher to teach new and interesting science topics and acquire the necessary skills to plan, implement and evaluate new personal teaching programs.