ED4499:00
Fourth Year Professional Experience
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 1
4 hours lectures, 200 hours professional experience including approximately 1200 hours of James Cook University academic staff contact for the cohort. Full year. Internal Townsville and Cairns campus. Full year external for RATEP students.
Available to students who have successfully completed 64 units of BEd subjects including 12 units of each discipline area for BEd (Secondary) and ED3499 and are concurrently enrolled in ED4090 (Early Childhood), ED4190 (Primary) or ED4290 (Secondary) and ED4291.
Staff: Dr K Martinez (Townsville campus); Dr P Matters (Cairns campus).
This subject is part of the developmental curriculum for professional experience within the Bachelor of Education program. Students will complete one week of professional orientation at the beginning of the academic year, engaging in whole group visits to educational settings and sessions with key educational leaders in the community. Students will also participate in field-based experiences for 8 weeks, spread across different stages throughout the year. During this pre-professional year, students will integrate their knowledge of policies, research and practices, and their personal practical theories of effective teaching for all learners in their specialist sector (Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary). Students will actively participate in the life of a school/centre during the entire school year, and develop an understanding of the complexities of the varied roles of professional teachers. Students will develop appropriate competencies to be autonomous, reflective, collaborative practitioners ready to begin to teach.
Learning objectives as for ED4498.
School-based teacher educators will complete a written report on the student’s demonstrated competence to begin to teach.