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Unit of Study TCHR3008 - Professional Experience II: Effective Teaching (2021)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Enrolment information

    This unit has a compulsory professional experience component. Enrolment in this unit requires you to have a valid QLD Blue Card and/or a Working with Children Check for your State or Territory.

Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to build on knowledge and skills developed in Professional Experience I through further classroom teaching experience as well as through the development of an understanding of what it means to be an effective and competent teacher. The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) underpin this unit. Students will apply the APSTs to their own classroom practice.

Unit content

Module 1: Planning

  • Introduction to the unit
  • Planning using data
  • Consideration for diverse learners
  • Planning with consideration for the Cirriculum and the Cross Curricula Priorities and General Capabilities

Module 2: Teaching

  • Differentiation
  • Teaching strategies

Module 3: Assessment

  • Visible Learning
  • Designing diagnostic, formative and summative assessment

Module 4: Professional Experience

  • Planning and preparing for professional experience.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Session2
Session2
Lismore
Session2
Session2
Online
Session1,2
N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

identify relevant research that underpins models of effective teaching

plan and implement lessons using the NSW Quality Teaching Framework

develop learning experiences and, in consultation with a mentor teacher, classroom policies that promote intellectual quality, the significance of the learning and the quality of the learning environment

develop lesson plans across the key learning areas suitable to the diversity of the students in the classroom

create materials suitable for supporting teaching and professional development

work towards creating a safe and supportive learning environment having regard to child protection legislation, workplace health and safety, and duty of care

reflect critically and creatively on teaching practices, drawing on classroom experiences of student learning.

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