Pre-requisites

ED724 Learners, Educators and Social Contexts
ED722 Students with Additional Needs
PR701 Professional Experience (25 days)
All major and minor units completed
Successful LANTITE Results (Coded as NLTEST and NNTEST)

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Use critical reflection and a range of assessment data to evaluate students’ learning and measure the impact of your practices, and seek and apply advice and feedback from experienced teachers in order to evaluate and modify your teaching practices

• Participate as a professional in the life of the school community, demonstrating an understanding of teachers’ roles and responsibilities, including working with parents/carers, and reflect on your identity as a teacher.

• Demonstrate proficiency in their teaching practice commensurate with the expectations outlined in the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the graduate level and The Victorian Teaching Profession Code of Conduct, and develop strategies to transition to the teaching profession.

• Set challenging but achievable learning goals that target students’ learning needs and plan for differentiated teaching and learning to support diverse learners, including students with additional needs.

• Use a range of teaching strategies, verbal and non-verbal communication strategies, and a range of resources, including ICT to support students’ engagement, participation and learning.

• Organise classroom activities, give clear directions and implement strategies to manage challenging behaviours and provide students with safe, supportive and engaging learning environments.

• Develop and implement a range of assessment strategies to monitor students’ progress, determine their learning needs, provide meaningful feedback to students on their learning and maintain accurate and reliable records of their progress that can be used for reporting to parents/carers.

• Demonstrate and apply knowledge of students and how they learning, curriculum objectives, content and teaching strategies appropriate to the content, in organising learning and teaching sequences.

Unit Description

The fourth and final professional experience is a block of 30 consecutive days in a school, and is completed during the final semester of study. The aim for this teaching block is for you to operate as independent yet supervised teachers. You will ideally move quickly through an orientation and team teaching model with your supervising teacher and have full control of the class learning environment for at least 25 days. As you progress through the professional experience, you are expected to demonstrate increasing competence and professional growth as a teacher and are encouraged to become well immersed with school life. You are also required to incorporate ICT in your teaching, learning and administration practices displaying improving personal proficiency.

During the placement your supervising teacher will provide advice and support and will assess your teaching against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the graduate level. By the end of this professional experience you are required to demonstrate that you are ‘ready to teach’ by satisfactorily meeting all of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the graduate level. The College in consultation with the supervising teacher will make the final determination of your capabilities.

Through this professional experience you will focus on developing a reflective practice in order to improve classroom practices. On campus classes will introduce the teaching performance assessment. During your placement you will reflect on and evaluate your practices and their impact on students, and your progress towards the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the graduate level.

On campus classes prior to and after the placement will prepare you for the placement, and enable you to debrief after its completion and prepare for transitioning into the profession. Through reflection on your journey as a teacher candidate, you will discuss strategies to transition into the teaching profession with an understanding of employment contracts, registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching, and the graduate teacher status.

Topics

• Reflective Approaches to Improving Practice
• Measuring impact and progress against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
• Preparing for the final professional experience
• Preparing for the teaching performance assessment
• Debriefing and reflecting on the professional experience
• Preparing to transition into the profession
• Teacher registration and engagement with representatives of the sector

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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.