Overview

In this unit, pre-service teachers will undertake a 20 day professional experience placement in an early childhood setting (3-5 years preschool program) under the supervision of approved mentors. This unit also ensures that pre-service teachers are ‘Ready to Teach’ and meet the Australian Professional Standards for Graduate Teachers. Pre-service teachers will focus their direction towards the role of a teacher in an early childhood setting. This includes more advanced skills and additional knowledge for curriculum decision-making, including assessing children's interests, skills, knowledge and learning. This unit aims to provide pre-service teachers with experience to demonstrate competence against ALL the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): Graduate Stage.

Requisites

Prerequisites
EDU30003 Curriculum, Planning & Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E

Rule
EDU30003 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E
AND
EDU20053 Curriculum Planning and Assessment: Practicum 2
AND
287.5 credit points in BA-EDUECT (S) Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Teaching)
AND
EDU30003 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E
AND
EDU20006 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Primary: Practicum 2
AND
287.5 credit points in one of:
BA-EDECP (S) Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary)
OR
BA-EDUEC (2) Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Teaching Period 1
Location
Online
Start and end dates
11-March-2024
09-June-2024
Last self-enrolment date
24-March-2024
Census date
05-April-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
26-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Teaching Period 2
Location
Online
Start and end dates
08-July-2024
06-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
21-July-2024
Census date
02-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
23-August-2024
Results released date
29-October-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
04-November-2024
09-February-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-November-2024
Census date
29-November-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
27-December-2024
Results released date
04-March-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Assess children’s learning in collaboration with families and children in a variety of ways that lead to a deep and broad basis for planning relevant national and/ or state or territory curriculum that supports further learning
  • Design, implement and evaluate curriculum that builds on identified long- and short-term, group and individual goals
  • Investigate and evaluate a range of strategies to encourage children to become confident and involved learners, including developing critical skills of analysis, reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making
  • Develop teaching strategies that respond to and build on children’s strengths and that take account of diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
  • Create rich learning environments inside and outside
  • Demonstrate teaching performance, responsibility for the curriculum and professional readiness at an appropriate standard for a graduate teacher
  • Design and implement learning programs to measure impact on student learning and wellbeing in ways that are responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Placement
Placement
37.50 4 weeks 150
Specified Activities
Various
4.00 12 weeks 48
Unspecified Activities
Various
5.50 12 weeks 66
TOTAL300

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Placement
Placement
37.50 4 weeks 150
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL300

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Professional Experience PortfolioIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
Professional Experience ReportIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4,5,6 

Content

  • Learning content/ subject discipline areas for early childhood education
  • Health and safety considerations
  • Diversity, difference and inclusion
  • Designing learning environments
  • Organising the curriculum (including routines, transitions, timing, choices)
  • Documenting planning decisions
  • Assessing children’s learning
  • Transition to school
  • Inquiry-based and problem-solving approaches
  • Diversity and individual differences
  • Maintaining safe and challenging learning environments
  • Tools and practices for assessing, recording and reporting on children’s learning
  • The use of ICT to communicate and to plan, implement and evaluate curriculum
  • Code of ethics
  • Graduate early childhood teacher standards
  • Advocacy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.