Overview

In this unit, pre-service teachers will undertake a 20-day professional experience in a secondary school setting under the supervision of approved mentors. Pre-service teachers will involve themselves in the life of the school and reflect on their practice and performance supported by their in school mentors and university academic staff. Within this unit pre-service teachers will continue to develop their understanding and competence against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) appropriate to this course stage. In preparation for this professional experience, pre-service teachers will engage with material relating to pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and policies relevant to a secondary school setting.

Requisites

Prerequisites
EDU70015 Professional Experience 1

Rule
EDU70015 Professional Experience 1
AND
EDU60050 Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy 1
OR
25 credit points in units EDU60020-EDU60042

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Quarter 2
Location
Online
Start and end dates
22-April-2024
23-June-2024
Last self-enrolment date
22-April-2024
Census date
10-May-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
24-May-2024
Results released date
16-July-2024
Quarter 4
Location
Online
Start and end dates
07-October-2024
08-December-2024
Last self-enrolment date
07-October-2024
Census date
25-October-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
08-November-2024
Results released date
14-January-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Plan, implement and evaluate learning experiences
  • Modify learning environments to ensure safety and to facilitate learning
  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills with education professionals, students and families
  • Critically analyse and reflect upon teaching and learning in relation to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
  • Utilise a range of teaching and assessment strategies and evaluate their effectiveness

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Workshop
2.00 12 weeks 24
Placement
Placement
37.50 4 weeks 150
Specified Activities
Various
4.50 8 weeks 36
Unspecified Activities
Various
6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL300

Swinburne Online

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

Assessment

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

Content

  • Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate) focus areas 1.3, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2  are explicitly taught, practiced and assessed in this unit, whilst focus areas 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.3, 7.1, 7.3 are furthered developed
  • Engagement in a professional experience under the guidance of a professionally qualified mentor teacher
  • Curriculum documentation
  • Introduction to assessment practices and their relationship to effective learningg
  • Lesson and unit planning
  • Establishing and maintaining professional relationships with students and other professionals
  • Using reflection as a tool for improvement
  • Setting goals for teaching and learning
  • Modify the learning environment to enhance safety and learning
  • Teaching resources including ICT
  • Effective communication
  • A range of teaching strategies that support students’ learning
  • Strategies for supporting students’ learning, well-being and safety, including policy and legislative requirements
  • Code of Conduct
  • Code of Ethics
  • Building on e-Portfolios
  • Graduate Attribute - Communication Skills Verbal communication
  • Graduate Attribute - Information Literacy 
  • Graduate Attribute - Technical literacy 

Study resources

Reading materials

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