Early Childhood Professional Experience and Reflection (Junior Primary)

Course aim

To support preservice teachers as reflective practitioners to consolidate and apply their research and professional knowledge, understandings and skills as early childhood preservice teachers within the Junior Primary classroom context.

Course content

Preservice teachers will attend on campus workshops and undertake supervised placements in a junior primary setting 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. preservice teachers will focus on the role of the early childhood educator in a junior primary context; the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum in planning, assessing and reporting; play-based learning across the curriculum for the early years of school; understanding the importance of appropriate, timely and constructive feedback; student and teacher self-efficacy; beliefs informing practice and social justice implications; teacher wellbeing; legal and ethical responsibilities of teachers; career development and 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 5267	Mathematics and Science Education (R-2)
EDUC 5259	English Education (Junior Primary)

Corequisite(s)

Completion of UniSA Literacy & Numeracy Self-Evaluation & an approved RRHAN course completed whilst enrolled in ITE program. RRHAN training must be completed prior to field placement.

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Field Placement	8 hours (as required) x 35 days
Lecture	1 hour x 10 weeks
Tutorial	3 hours x 10 weeks

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

Assessment

Placement, Professional plan, Reflection

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

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
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.