Pre-requisites

PR601 Professional Experience 15 days
At least 72 credit points successfully completed
Evidence of an attempt at LANTITE in both Literacy and Numeracy

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Demonstrate an increasing knowledge and understanding of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and The Victorian Teaching Profession Code of Conduct, and their application to professional practice and identity.

• Critically reflect on your own and others’ teaching practices. Seek, evaluate, and apply advice and feedback from experienced teachers in order to evaluate and improve your teaching practice.

• Ability to apply proactive practices to organise classroom activities, provide clear directions and use a range of communication and classroom management strategies (including modelling and feedback) that support the engagement, safety and well-being of students.

• Apply broad and coherent knowledge of students, learning theory, curriculum and content, to plan and implement effective lesson sequences for students with diverse literacy and numeracy needs (including challenging but achievable learning goals, a range of differentiated teaching, assessment, recording and feedback strategies and appropriate resources, including ICT).

Unit Description

The professional experience component of this unit entails attending a placement school (primary or secondary depending on the course being completed) for a block of 15 consecutive days in the school. Under the supervision of an experienced teacher, you will apply and develop your teaching practices, teaching whole classes for whole lessons up to a full-day load as negotiated with your supervising teacher based on your progress and performance. You will continue to focus on learning through regularly observing and reflecting on experienced teachers’ practices and reflecting on your own teaching taking into account the feedback from your supervisor.
You will attend a preparation class prior to the professional experience placement and a debrief class after its completion; both will be held on Campus.
During the placement, your supervising teacher will provide you with advice, support and feedback to support your progress and improve your practices and will assess your teaching against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the graduate level. You are required to incorporate digital technologies into your teaching, learning, preparation and assessment practices displaying improving personal proficiency. As you progress through the Professional Experience, you are expected to demonstrate increasing competence and professional growth and become well immersed in school life.

Topics

1. Preparing for Professional Experience in school
2. Reflecting and debriefing on your professional experience in school
3. Diverse student contexts and the Christian response
4. Diversity in the classroom - exploring cultural, linguistic, religious and socioeconomic contexts
5. Identifying and responding to diverse students learning strengths and needs
6. Teaching strategies for the diverse classroom
7. Reflecting, evaluating feedback and modifying practice

Assessment and Indicative Load

Assessment types include Other, Field Placement Supervisors Report, Portfolio, and Attendance. Indicative study load is 80 hours.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Demand based)

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.