Overview

The pre-service teachers will undertake 20 days of professional experience in an upper primary school setting under the supervision of a registered teacher mentor. In this unit pre-service teachers involve themselves in the life of the school and reflect on their practice and performance in discussion with their school mentor teacher and university staff. Pre-service teachers will take a large percentage of full class teaching. In preparation for their placement in schools, they will engage with material relating to pedagogy and curriculum for a primary school setting and assessment for learning in the primary classroom and establishing professional relationships from the onset and demonstrate competence against all the Australian professional standards for teachers at graduate level.

Requisites

Prerequisites
EDU20006 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Primary: Practicum 2
EDU20002 Mathematics in Practice
EDU20001 Developing Literacy

AND

237.5 credit points in BA-EDUPRI (1) Bachelor of Education (Primary)

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
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:

  • Prepare and appraise learning experiences using a variety of curriculum documents and resources
  • Design learning environments to ensure safety and to facilitate learning
  • Demonstrate professional relationships with education professionals and caring and professional relationships with students
  • Write and evaluate detailed and professional learning/teaching plans
  • Analyse and reflect upon teaching and learning experiences
  • Critically evaluate curriculum and pedagogical principles in relation to effective teaching and learning
  • Apply your knowledge and understanding of pedagogical approaches to promote children’s learning and wellbeing, and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, in ways that are responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being.

Teaching methods

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

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

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Professional Experience PortfolioIndividual 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
Professional Experience ReportIndividual 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

  • Engagement in a professional practicum under the guidance of a mentor teacher
  • Upper primary school (Grades 3 to 6) relevant national and/or state or territory curriculum policies and documents
  • Pedagogy
  • Introduction to assessment practices and their relationship to effective learning
  • Lesson and unit planning and documentation
  • Forming professional relationships
  • Self-assessment of teaching performance
  • Creating and maintaining a safe and challenging learning environment
  • Using a range of teaching practices and resources
  • Strategies for supporting students’ well-being and safety, including policy and legislative requirements
  • Code of Conduct
  • Australian Professional Standards for Teachers 

Study resources

Reading materials

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