Ready to Teach Primary: Practicum 4E
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 1 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Corequisites
NilAims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Construct pedagogical approaches in all areas of the relevant national and/or state or territory primary curriculum and implement curriculum and assessment (both formative and summative) to support learning
2. Develop lesson plans that reflect an ability to articulate aims, objectives, procedures, outcomes and evaluation practices
3. Recommend teaching methods to cater for individual differences in children, including children with additional needs and those from cultural and Indigenous backgrounds
4. Examine and critically evaluate organisational policy and practice within the primary school
5. Design and implement practical strategies for creating effective and engaging learning environments, developing rapport with children and guiding children’s behaviour
Courses with unit
BA-EDUEC/EDUEC2 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 300 hours of work including:
Type (On-campus) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Seminar Placement |
2 |
6 4 |
12 150 |
Online activities Online | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities Reflections on practice Preparation for placement |
| 12 | 48 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Readings Folio preparation |
| 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.
Content
• Transition to school.
• Self-assessment of teaching performance.
• Children’s cognitive, social and emotional development.
• Guiding children’s behaviour individually and in group situations.
• Adapting teaching and curriculum content to children’s abilities, knowledge, skills and interests
• Collaborative approaches with children, colleagues and families.
• Planning, assessing and evaluating for effective teaching and learning.
• Creating and maintaining safe, healthy and challenging learning environments.
• Using relevant curriculum documents to design learning experiences.
• Organisational policies and practices in primary school including professional codes.
• Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: Graduate Stage.
Study resources
- Reading materials.