Overview

This is the final Primary placement unit within the early childhood degree. In this unit, pre-service teachers will undertake a 20 day professional experience placement in a primary school under the supervision of approved mentors. This unit aims to provide pre-service teachers with experience in an appropriate professional setting that will engage them to demonstrate competence against ALL the Australian professional standards for teachers at graduate level. This unit also ensures that pre-service teachers are ‘Ready to Teach’ and meet the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: Graduate Stage.

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

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • 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
  • Develop lesson plans that reflect an ability to articulate aims, objectives, procedures, outcomes and evaluation practices
  • Recommend teaching methods to cater for individual differences in children, including children with additional needs and those from cultural and Indigenous backgrounds
  • Examine and critically evaluate organisational policy and practice within the primary school
  • Design and implement practical strategies for creating effective and engaging learning environments, developing rapport with children and guiding children’s behaviour
  • Demonstrate and critically reflect upon teaching performance and professional readiness at an appropriate standard for a graduate teacher
  • Design and implement learning programs to measure impact on student learning and wellbeing, and promote 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 0% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
Professional Experience ReportIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

  • Australian Professional Standards for Teachers 1-7 (Graduate) 
  • 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
  • Completing the GTPA Preparation Assessment
  • Completing the GTPA Portfolio Assessment

Study resources

Reading materials

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