TCH10014 - Professional Experience I: Becoming a Teacher (2019)

Provides the foundation for developing competence in students’ teaching skills and strategies by: (i) the study of contemporary theory and practice about effective classroom practice, and (ii) the satisfactory completion of a professional experience placement in schools.

Module 1: Skills And Strategies For Teaching

Introduces students to the Orientation, Guided Discovery, Exploration and Reflection (OGER) framework. The framework provides a structure that allows for a deeper understanding of planning and an overview of the micro skills for teaching. Assessment, as a way to address the learning intentions of lessons, will also be addressed.

• Orientation: Engaging diverse learners
• Guided Discovery: Explicit teaching
• Exploration: Student focussed practice
• Reflection: Reviewing teaching and learning
• Assessment

Module 2: Policy and Practice

• The learning environment and managing student behaviour
• Establishing a professional identity (Including alignment with the National Professional Standards for Graduate Teachers)
• Preparation for practicum (including Code of Conduct, Anaphylaxis Training, Child Protection and Duty of Care Legislation)

Module 3: Professional Experience

Students will undertake 25 days of professional experience. The first five school visits will be observation.

• Observation
• Planning for teaching
• Lesson implementation
• Assessment
• Reflection on practice
• Meeting requirements

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.

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