Ready to Teach Early Childhood: Practicum 5E
Overview
In this unit, pre-service teachers will undertake a 20 day professional experience placement in an early childhood setting (3-5 years preschool program) under the supervision of approved mentors. This unit also ensures that pre-service teachers are "Ready to Teach" and meet the Australian Professional Standards for Graduate Teachers. Pre-service teachers will focus their direction towards the role of a teacher in an early childhood setting. This includes more advanced skills and additional knowledge for curriculum decision-making, including assessing children's interests, skills, knowledge and learning. This unit aims to provide pre-service teachers with experience to demonstrate competence against ALL the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): Graduate Stage.
Requisites
Rule
EDU30003 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E
AND
EDU20053 Curriculum Planning and Assessment: Practicum 2
AND
287.5 credit points in BA-EDUECT (S) Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Teaching)
AND
EDU30003 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E
AND
EDU20006 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Primary: Practicum 2
AND
287.5 credit points in one of:
BA-EDECP (S) Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary)
OR
BA-EDUEC (2) Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
06-October-2024
27-October-2024
09-February-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- 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
- Design, implement and evaluate curriculum that builds on identified long- and short-term, group and individual goals
- 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
- Develop teaching strategies that respond to and build on children’s strengths and that take account of diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
- Create rich learning environments inside and outside
- Demonstrate teaching performance, responsibility for the curriculum and professional readiness at an appropriate standard for a graduate teacher
- Design and implement learning programs to measure impact on student learning and wellbeing in ways that are responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being
Teaching methods
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 |
TOTAL | 300 |
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 |
TOTAL | 300 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Professional Experience Portfolio | Individual | 0% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
Professional Experience Report | Individual | 0% | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
Content
- Learning content/ subject discipline areas for early childhood education
- 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
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.