EDUC9232 Professional Experience 1 (Primary R-7)

2019

4.5

3 x 1-hour lectures per semester
1 x 25-day field placement per semester

1 Admission into MTPR-Master of Teaching (Primary)
1a Admission into MTSEPR-Master of Teaching (Special Education) (Primary)
2 ^ EDUC9131 - Professional Experience: An Introduction (Primary R-7)
3 ^ 18 units of EDUC topics
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a) and 2 and 3)

EDUC3666 has been successfully completed

This Professional Teaching Practice occurs in the first year of the Master of Teaching program. Four consecutive weeks (20 days) plus 5 planning days are spent in a metropolitan or country junior primary, primary, or primary/secondary combined school. Emphasis is placed on the gradual assumption of the responsibilities of the teacher. Links should be made between the theoretical understandings about teaching and learning and the practice of teaching. The pre-service teacher is expected to demonstrate professional relationships with all members of the school community as well as the ability plan and deliver effective learning experiences to students. They will reflect on personal performance and respond to feedback about that performance, thus beginning the reflective enquiry process that is the hallmark of an engaged professional.

The aims of this topic are for pre-service teachers to:

• interact appropriately with all members of a school community

• practise assuming the role of the teacher with the guidance of a registered teacher

• draw on research and their theoretical understandings about teaching and learning when planning for teaching

• provide written plans for, prepare for and manage learning experiences for the whole class with the support and guidance of the class teacher

• observe and evaluate student learning

• reflect on their own performance and with the guidance of the mentor teacher seek to continually improve their teaching and management of classroom interactions, thus demonstrating the activities of an engaged professional

On completion of this topic pre-service teachers will have:

• demonstrated appropriate interactions with all members of the school community

• assumed the role of teacher with the guidance of a registered teacher

• linked research and theoretical understandings with teaching practice

• provided written lesson plans for their teaching

• demonstrated teaching skill through the preparation for and delivery of lessons

• observed and evaluated student learning

• reflected on their own learning and responded to the guidance of their mentor teacher to improve their teaching and management of classroom interactions, thus exhibiting the behaviour of an engaged professional