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ED5212:03

Graduate Final Professional Experience

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

10 hours lectures, 125 hours practicum, 75 hours of other professional experience (consisting of 25 hours professional orientation week and 50 hours community service). Semester 1 and 2.

Available only to students enrolled in a Master of Teaching. Students should have completed 33 units of MTeach subjects, including 12 units in each teaching area from the first degree for secondary students, towards Master of Teaching.

Staff:

Ms A Hill (Townsville campus);

Dr P Matters (Cairns campus).

This subject is part of the developmental curriculum for professional experience within the Master of Teaching program. Students will complete one week of professional orientation, engaging in group visits to education settings and sessions with education leaders. Students will be allocated a school and attend for 25 allocated days, completing a range of activities to develop an understanding of the complexities of teachers' roles and the changes that occur over the school semester. As a culminating experience, students will plan, teach and evaluate a full-time three week continuous block of teaching. In addition students will develop an understanding of the important link between the work of educators and a range of community services.

Learning Objectives:

contribute to an education related community service;

plan, teach, evaluate a minimum three week continuous full-time equivalent block across all F/KLAs in EC and primary, and full-time equivalent across both curriculum areas and including junior and senior in Secondary;

participate ethically in a range of activities within a school setting;

identify, analyse and support a range of learner differences in a school setting;

use a repertoire of language and literacy skills for the teaching profession.

Assessment by completion of performance based assessment and required attendance (100%).