Pre-requisites

PR535.300 Professional Practice: Supported Teaching Secondary (20 days)
PR635.300 Professional Practice: Supported Teaching Secondary (25 days)

Co-requisites

ED623.306 Information Communications Technology and Design
ED724.306 Learners, Educators and Social Contexts

Major and minor study sequence in specialist teaching areas

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Plan and implement lesson sequences that target student learning through a range of teaching strategies and demonstrate knowledge of scope and sequence of the content area

• Organise classroom activities, providing clear direction and using a range of communication strategies to support student engagement and learning.

• Assess and monitor students’ learning to inform teaching and provide feedback to students on their progress; and keep records of assessment data to be used to ascertain student learning needs and plan for differentiated teaching and learning

• Critically reflect on their own and others’ teaching practices, seek, evaluate, and apply advice and feedback from supervisors and experienced teachers in order to improve teaching practice

• Reflect upon and explore their identity as a teacher, including a Christian perspective, and how this outworks in their teaching practice.

• Participate as a professional in the life of the school community, demonstrating an understanding of the required (legislative and ethical) roles and responsibilities

• Demonstrate advanced literacy and numeracy capabilities appropriate to the area of study and student learning needs

• Begin to demonstrate an understanding of the National Standards for Graduate Teachers and codes of ethics and conduct and how they apply to teaching practice.

• Explore, implement and evaluate strategies to provide students with safe, supportive and engaging learning environments and implement a range of strategies to manage challenging behaviour in the classroom

Unit Description

The third professional experience is a block of 25 consecutive days in a school (secondary) during the first semester of the fourth year. In this and the following practicum, the students, under the supervision of the Mentor Teacher, are required to teach the full class for a substantial part of the time. Students will attend a preparation class prior to the placement and a debriefing class after completing the placement, both are on-campus classes.

Mentor Teachers will provide advice and support for the pre-service teachers and will assess their teaching against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers - Graduates.

As pre-service teachers progress through the Professional Experience, they are expected to demonstrate increasing competence and professional growth. All pre-service teachers are to become well immersed with school life.

Pre-service teachers are required to incorporate digital technologies in their teaching, learning, preparation and assessment practices displaying improving personal proficiency.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Demand based)
Face to face: (Every Year, Semester 1 and 2)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.