Professional Experience and Reflection 3: Early Childhood Teacher as Inquirer

Course aim

To provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and apply their reflective, research and professional knowledge, understandings and skills as early childhood student-teachers.

Course content

Students will undertake supervised placements’ where they will apply their skills developed throughout their program to demonstrate that they meet the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at a Graduate level  in an inquiry-based curriculum. The learning for the students incorporates a knowledge of the Early Year’s Framework and the Australian Curriculum in planning assessing and reporting, play-based learning across the curriculum for the early years of school, managing large and small groups of children, collaboration with professional teams, multi-skilling of professionals, workplace context, roles and responsibilities and reflection on action, beliefs informing practice and social justice implications, teacher wellbeing, legal and ethical responsibilities of teachers, partnerships with parents/caregivers, career development, critically analysing and presenting data on professional practice.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 5221	Professional Experience and Reflection 2: Early Childhood Educator's Work

All courses in Year 1 and First Semester of Year 2 of the program schedule must be successfully completed before enrolling in this course. This applies to fulltime and part-time students. Any variation to this will need the approval of the Program Director.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Workshop	3 hours x 6 weeks
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	7 hours x 35 days
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	3 hours x 6 weeks
External (Professional Experience Placement)	7 hours x 35 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

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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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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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.