Available to students enrolled in both EDUC3528 and EDUC3640 in the same calendar year.
Five preliminary day visits undertaken in the topic EDUC3528 Professional Experience: Year 3A (Early Childhood) are followed by a consecutive 6 week-block (total 35 days), spent in a metropolitan or country early childhood setting. Emphasis is placed on the planning, implementation and evaluation of teaching programs. Close links are established between curriculum studies at Flinders and centre/school curricula through designing, evaluating, implementing, analysing and theorising about their placement site's curriculum inquiry focus. At the conclusion of this teaching experience, judgements are made about the pre-service teacher's readiness to continue to the final placement topic EDUC4740 Professional Experience: Final Assessment for Registration (Early Childhood).
This professional learning experience provides students with an opportunity to:
Timetable details for 2021 are no longer published.