Requirements to teach Maths in Victoria???

Iain · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Hi All,

For various reasons I am considering a career change and am looking
seriously at teaching. I have a degree in electronics engineering
(honours etc) which contains a large maths content. Would this
combined with the relevent post-grad diplomas enable me to teach maths
in high schools and to what level? Any comments?

Many thanks for any help.

Iain

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Iain · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

AG Wolfe wrote in message news:...
> Iain wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > For various reasons I am considering a career change and am looking
> > seriously at teaching. I have a degree in electronics engineering
> > (honours etc) which contains a large maths content. Would this
> > combined with the relevent post-grad diplomas enable me to teach maths
> > in high schools and to what level? Any comments?
>
>
> Hi
> afaik in all states you may teach if you simply get a DipEd (diploma of
> education).
> with your maths bkgnd you could teach up to yr12 with no prob's.
>
> cheers, andrew wolfe.

From what i've seen you need to have "sub-majored" in maths if you are
tacking a dip. ed. onto a normal degree. I just can't work out if i've
got what it takes. (academically speaking Smile

Cheers

Iain

AG Wolfe · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 5

Iain wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> For various reasons I am considering a career change and am looking
> seriously at teaching. I have a degree in electronics engineering
> (honours etc) which contains a large maths content. Would this
> combined with the relevent post-grad diplomas enable me to teach maths
> in high schools and to what level? Any comments?

Hi
afaik in all states you may teach if you simply get a DipEd (diploma of
education).
with your maths bkgnd you could teach up to yr12 with no prob's.

cheers, andrew wolfe.

AKM · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Iain wrote:

> AG Wolfe wrote in message news:...
>
>>Iain wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>For various reasons I am considering a career change and am looking
>>>seriously at teaching. I have a degree in electronics engineering
>>>(honours etc) which contains a large maths content. Would this
>>>combined with the relevent post-grad diplomas enable me to teach maths
>>>in high schools and to what level? Any comments?
>>
>>
>>Hi
>>afaik in all states you may teach if you simply get a DipEd (diploma of
>>education).
>>with your maths bkgnd you could teach up to yr12 with no prob's.
>>
>>cheers, andrew wolfe.
>
>
>
> From what i've seen you need to have "sub-majored" in maths if you are
> tacking a dip. ed. onto a normal degree. I just can't work out if i've
> got what it takes. (academically speaking Smile

>
> Cheers
>
> Iain

All you need is a DipEd, and you can ask to focus on mathematical
teaching. But you don't need all that much maths. In practise, a huge
number of maths teachers don't have it. Try different DipEd programmes
- they have differing ideas about what counts as adequate background.