Professional Experience and Reflection 2: Early Childhood Educator's Work

Course aim

To enable students to develop capacities to work as a member of the teaching team in a preschool setting, to plan and engage children in an emergent play based curriculum and to document learning.

Course content

Students will focus on the role of the teacher in a preschool context. Students will apply an advanced body of knowledge of child development as they engage with curriculum documents, employ an observation, planning and assessment cycle to plan and implement an emergent play based curriculum in a preschool setting. .

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 5186	Early Childhood Professional Experience and Reflection (Infant and Toddler)
EDUC 5159	Developing a Play Curriculum M

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

Corequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 5142	Arts Education M

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 6 weeks
Workshop	3 hours x 6 weeks
Field Placement (Professional Experience Placement)	8 hours (or as required) 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 preparation folio, Report

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

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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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.