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Hsiang-Yun Chou
I actually chose Monash because I've heard Monash teaching style is very practical, is very lively, and where you get a lot of hands-on experience. And what I'm doing now, I get a lot of placement. I get to go to schools, different settings. I just finished a hospital placement. You get to choose where you want to go to. And that is very valuable. You need that practical experience, to be ready for the outside world I think. It's really really important. Yes.
Sweta Patel
I'm Sweta, and I'm doing my Masters in Education specialising in Early childhood. This course allows me to major in a subject that's really close to my heart. The course allows me to select subjects that - and gives me an option to do - whatever I feel close to. And this would help me when I go back to India, in my professional career. Because the course really motivates me and teaches me about the development, child development activities and what is really appropriate. And has taught me really valuable ethics, and has taught me what is appropriate when I deal with children. The Faculty arranges these Workshops and Study Groups where we all come together and talk about our interests as education and Early Childhood. And through our friendship we get to know about the various international perspectives. And this contributes to the learning in our particular field.
Rosemary Viete
One of the things that I think that the Faculty is good at doing, and that it's good at doing because of the students, is providing a sense of community. The Faculty's classes are fairly small. Students are able to get to know each other and to really learn from each other because of this. I think community is important. As educators we need to connect with people, and I think that the Study Groups, the classes, the Workshops that we offer to students do provide venues for that. We also have social activities that provide venues for these connections. We have trips and afternoon teas.
Taka Harada
Actually I had no experience studying overseas, or staying overseas. So, after coming here I was able to study what I used to do, and at the same time I've experienced life in Australia, like overseas. And, yeah, the study is really really helpful for me because lecturers always respect the students, the students' opinion. And provide us with advice, how we adapt the theory to practice.
Rosemary Viete
I think it's really important in our courses, and teachers believe it is important, to make sure that what we're all learning is to connect new ideas, really new ideas about the fields we're studying, with the real contexts in which people will work. This is a focus of all of our units. And students appreciate this very much.
Linda Yang
The encouragement from my support teacher, it not only helped me to improve my academic achievement, but also to my self esteem. And I found out this support modelled for me, it is important to teach students as a whole person, in my future teaching career.
Rosemary Viete
It's very important that we see our students as whole people. As people who have lives outside of study. As people who will be going back to families. Who will be contributing to their nations. I think that that is the joy for us. We are able to share in their forward journeys as well as their experiences as whole people here.
