ED5228 - Professional Practices 2

Credit points:	06
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
Administered by:

Available to Graduate Diploma of Education students only

This subject uses a collaborative workplace learning approach, immersing students in educational settings during the study period. Working collaboratively with school-based teacher educators, student teachers critically examine and explore teaching and learning. Students will develop knowledge base and practices for collecting, analysing and interpreting information about teaching and learning, including student feedback and work samples. These cycles of systematic inquiry will have as their dual focus the continuing professional development of the student teacher and improved learning outcomes for all students. Students will develop a professional portfolio in which they address the Professional Standards of the Board of Teacher Registration with a particular focus on numeracy, literacy and technology. Students are required to undertake 190 hours of professional experience in educational settings completing a range of activities developing an understanding of the complexity of teachers' roles and the changes that occur over a semester. These professional experience hours include a continuous block of teaching.

Learning Outcomes

• collaborate with school-based teachers and peers to develop and evaluate professional practices;
• demonstrate repertoires of practice, including workplace literacy practices;
• examine and critically analyse a range of teaching and management incidents and strategies from multiple perspectives;
• integrate current pedagogical approaches in the fields of language, literacy, second language acquisition, numeracy education and information communication technologies (ICTs) into their developing professional practice;
• plan, teach and evaluate a continuous fulltime equivalent professional experience; identify, analyse and support a range of learner differences in a school setting; contribute to an education related community service.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

ED3492 and ED5211

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	edghc
Lecturers:	edhm, Assoc. Professor Leanne Dalley, jc121016, jc146244.
Contact hours:	26 hours 26 hours 190 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	satisfactory completion of professional experience component.
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	jc165873
Lecturers:	edeaw, Miss Juanita Sellwood, jc165873.
Contact hours:	26 hours 26 hours - workshops 190 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	satisfactory completion of professional experience component.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.