Professional Experience 3: Assessment and Reporting

Course aim

To develop students' capacities to perform as competent pre-service teachers within schools and their communities.

Course content

Students will use curriculum frameworks for planning, programming, implementing, assessing, recording, reporting and evaluating learning programs for extended periods; managing the learning environment including issues of collaboration, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation. Students will develop knowledge of the centrality of teacher-student relationships to learning, building connections with parents/caregivers and emotional work of teaching, negotiating the complexity of the mentor-preservice teacher relationship.

 

 

Textbook(s)

Early Childhood Specialisation Only: Department of Education and Children's Services 2008, Assessing for learning and development in the early years using observation Scales: Reflect respect relate, 1st ed, DECS Publishers, Hindmarsh, SA

Primary & Primary/Middle Specialisation Only: Brady, L & Kennedy, K 2012, Celebrating student achievement, assessment and reporting, 4th edition, Pearson, Frenchs Forest, NSW

Primary & Primary/Middle Specialisation Only: Groundwater-Smith, S, Ewing, R & Le Cornu, R 2011, Teaching challenges and dilemmas, 4th edition, Cengage, Melbourne, VIC

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 2062	Professional Experience 2: Curriculum and Pedagogy
EDUC 2058	Studies in English Education 1

Corequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 2030	Science Education
EDUC 3063	Studies in Mathematics Education 2

Only those students enrolled in the Primary and Middle specialisation of the Bachelor of Education are expected to fulfill the corequisite requirements.

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 6 weeks
Workshop	3 hours x 6 weeks
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	Full day x 25 days
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture	1 hour x 6 weeks
Workshop	3 hours x 6 weeks
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	Full day x 25 days
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	4 hours x 6 weeks
External (Professional Experience Placement)	Full day x 25 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Professional experience placement, Professional folio, Report

Note: This is a non-graded course and your result will be a pass or fail.

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1A)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.