Professional Experience and Reflection 2: Educator's Work

Course aim

To enable students to develop capacities and demonstrate practice consistent with their role as developing student teachers within schools and their communities.

Course content

Students will undertake supervised placements and will develop skills in using curriculum frameworks for planning, programming, implementing, assessing, recording, reporting and evaluating learning programs for extended periods, developing skills and attitudes in critical reflection, understanding the nature of teachers work, managing the learning environment including issues of collaboration, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation, centrality of teacher-student relationships to learning, building connections with parents/ caregivers, emotional work of teaching, negotiating the complexity of the mentor-student teacher relationship and collecting, analysing and presenting data on professional practice.

Textbook(s)

Groundwater-Smith, S, Ewing, R & Le Cornu, R 2011, Teaching challenges and dilemmas, 4th edition, Cengage , Melbourne

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 5187	Professional Experience and Reflection 1: Introduction to Educators' Practices

Additionally students must have completed, or be undertaking, 2 courses (9 units) of their Learning Area courses.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture (Online)	1 hour x 4 weeks
Workshop	2 hours x 5 weeks
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	7 hours x 22 days
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture (Online)	1 hour x 4 weeks
Workshop	2 hours x 5 weeks
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	7 hours x 22 days
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External (Online activities)	3 hours x 4 weeks
External (Online activities)	2 hours x 1 week
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	7 hours x 22 days

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

Assessment

Essay, Professional Experience Placement

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

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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.