Teachers can have a life-altering impact on students. It’s a profession where who you are matters just as much as what you do. As a teacher, you can bring about real, lasting change.
Qualified teachers are in strong demand in Victoria. Teachers have job security, great career paths, and flexible opportunities to work around the world. Even more, students need you and the perspective, worldview and creative energy you can bring.
Eastern offers flexibility to make study work with your life circumstances, a vibrant Christian community, and inspiring lecturers who get to know you as a person. You’ll have the space to explore and develop your identity, character and calling, and the opportunity to integrate your faith with your teaching career.
Only the brave should teach, the men and women whose integrity cannot be shaken, whose minds are enlightened enough to understand the high calling of the teacher, whose hearts are unshakeably loyal to the young whatever the interests of those who are in power. – Pearl S. Buck.
Areas of Interest
Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care
Give a child a great start. Early childhood education has a significant impact in the all-important first five years of life.
Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
Increase your knowledge and skills in Early Childhood Education and provide a quality start in life for young children.
Want to care for young children?
Want to support children in their education?
Certificate III in School Based Education Support
Become a teacher’s aide, education assistant or school support worker.
Certificate IV in School Based Education Support
Help young people, including those with special needs, achieve their potential.
Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Become a qualified Primary School teacher in government, Christian and independent schools in Australia and overseas.
Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
Become a qualified Secondary School teacher in government, Christian and independent schools in Australia and overseas.
Want to become a teacher?
Want to make a career change to teaching?
Master of Teaching (Primary)
If you already have a degree in another field, this course will qualify you to become a teacher in primary schools in Australia and overseas.
Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Share your experience and expertise with the younger generation. This course qualifies graduates in select fields to become teachers in secondary schools in Australia and overseas.
Master of Education
Influence school culture, cultivate empowered teams and positively impact students and families.
Want to develop as a Christian Educator?
Pathways to Study
If you’re not ready to do a full Bachelor of Education, or you don’t yet have the entry requirements, consider Eastern’s Diploma of Arts as a pathway.
What Students
are saying
The Eastern Difference
What's Unique about Eastern?
Integrate
your faith & career
Our teaching, training and research is grounded in a Christian worldview, challenging students to think about what it means to be a person of faith within their chosen vocation.
Space to explore & develop
Learning alongside others within a vibrant Christian community leads to transformative growth in faith, identity, character and calling.
Accessible, supportive faculty
Eastern’s lecturers and trainers look out for you, understand you, and treat you as an individual.
Great
job
outcomes
In a recent survey, 93.9% of Eastern graduates found employment compared to the national average of 85.6%
Source: compared.edu.au
Eastern College Australia scored 95.5% for the overall experience, with exceptional results for our quality of teaching and student support.
Student Experience Survey 2020. SES is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment.
All primary and secondary education specialisations are accredited by the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) using the national accreditation standards. This means that these qualifications will be accepted for school teacher registration in Victoria and all other Australian states and territories.
Get in Touch
You can apply directly to the College via our online application form Below.
