Ready to Teach Early Childhood: Practicum 5E
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- On-campus: 24 hours Face to face plus 20 days placement Swinburne online: Fully online plus 20 days placement
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
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Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 |
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Prerequisites
Corequisites
Nil
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. 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
2. Design, implement and evaluate curriculum that builds on identified long- and short-term, group and individual goals
3. 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
4. Develop teaching strategies that respond to and build on children’s strengths and that take account of diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
5. Create rich learning environments inside and outside
Courses with unit
BA-EDUEC Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)BA-EDUEC2 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
DP-EDU Diploma of Education Studies
AB-EDU Associate Degree of Education
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type (On-campus) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Seminar Placement |
2 37.5 |
6 4 |
12 150 |
Online activities Online | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities Reflections on practice Preparation for placement |
4 | 12 | 48 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Readings Folio preparation | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 300 hours/ 12.5 credit points |
Type (SOL) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Workshop Placement | N/A 37.5 | 4 | 150 |
Online Contact | N/A | ||
Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings Online activities | 6 | 12 | 72 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Readings Assignment preparation | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 300 hours/ 12.5 credit points |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Professional Experience Report | Individual | Pass/Fail | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Professional Experience Portfolio | Individual | Pass/Fail | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
External accreditation requires that students must achieve a pass grade in both assessments.
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Content
• 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.