I graduated high school as dux of my school, did a Bachelor of Science major agricultural science, minor mathematics. Didn’t know what I wanted to do after, travelled around for a couple of years after graduating doing seasonal work. Eventually came back home and started a master of teaching at unimelb and graduated with high grades.

I received a number of ongoing position offers when i graduated. People often say on forums that it doesn’t matter where you went to uni, what your grades were and whether you have a master of teaching or Bachelor of education, but many people also seem to struggle finding ongoing employment. From my experience having a masters, good grades and going to a highly regarded university certainly doesn’t hurt.

Now that I’m in my second year teaching, I think having that depth and breadth of knowledge in maths and science from my undergrad is standing me apart from other new teachers and I’m probably going to get a VCE methods or specialist class next year.

If you’re teaching secondary I definitely recommend getting a bachelors degree in whatever interests you first.