EDFX100 Field Experience 1

0 cp

This unit orients the beginning teacher by emphasising professional interaction, familiarisation and guided observation. The unit offers opportunities to develop an awareness of the needs of learners and to promote an image of the student as teacher. Through observation and discussion the student is able to understand and develop elementary teaching and management skills and to undertake some introductory activities.

EDFX110 Professional Experience

10 cp
Co-requisite EDFD133 Understanding Learning

The aim of the first part of the Professional Experience Program is to provide preservice teachers with the opportunity to develop their understanding of the work of the teaching profession and to consider their possible futures within it. At the same time as preservice teachers are developing knowledge of themselves as learners, and extending their understanding of the disciplines that are integral to curricula, they will be experiencing a range of current teaching and learning contexts. In these settings preservice teachers will be asked to take on a number of roles in order to develop insight into the nature of the teaching profession; these might include: purposeful observer, active participant, classroom assistant. The unit will assist the students to identify learning styles and apply various strategies to cater for such learning styles and contexts. Through observation and discussion the student will be able to develop elementary teaching and management skills and to undertake some introductory activities.

EDFX111 Professional Experience Early Childhood 1

0 cp

This unit orients the early childhood preservice teacher/carer to the profession by emphasising professional interaction, familiarisation and guided observation for children aged 0-2 and centres and staff working in them. It offers opportunities to develop an awareness of the needs of children and to promote an understanding of child development and well being. Through observation and discussion the student is able to understand and develop elementary teaching and management skills and to undertake some introductory activities.

EDFX200 Field Experience 2

0 cp

This unit develops and extends basic teaching and learning skills. The unit will assist students to identify learning styles and apply various strategies to cater for such learning styles and contexts. The unit offers opportunities designed to develop teaching and management skills; to plan, prepare and implement lessons geared to curriculum area studies; to develop a variety of interpersonal skills; to identify appropriate assessment techniques and to reflect critically on experiences.

EDFX207 Community Engagement Program

0 cp
Co-requisite EDFD221 Creating Inclusive, Safe and Supportive Schools

This is part of a sequence of Professional Experience. The Community Engagement Program aims to assist preservice teachers to understand and value diversity in its many forms enabling them to cater for diversity more effectively. The placement in a community agency, where the preservice teachers contribute to the functions of that agency, enhances the development of their understanding of the contextual factors that impact on the way in which people live their lives. The Community Engagement Program is premised on an understanding that learning is enhanced through exposure to a variety of other individuals and contexts, particularly those that present different forms of knowledge, experiences, and attitudes. To enhance critical examination, promote reflective practices and challenge established beliefs, preservice teachers are offered unfamiliar, problematic experiences which break the continuity of experiences of cumulative socialisation that often date back to their school years. Participation encourages preservice teachers to extend their understanding of the pluralistic and accessible array of non-formal educational settings such as hospitals, prisons and community centres that offer legitimate and authentic experiences for learning, and should therefore be recognised and valued. Further, it enables preservice teachers to listen to the voices of marginalised people and, through reflection, allow such experiences to impact on their personal and professional lives as engaged citizens.

EDFX212 Professional Experience Primary 2A

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX110 Professional Experience 1

This unit together with EDFX213 are the equivalent of EDFX216.

This professional experience in the primary teacher education program is to provide opportunities for preservice teachers to become immersed in the life of the school program through participation in a combination of full-day professional experiences and a short Block practicum. During this experience the preservice teacher will work initially with small groups, particularly in the areas of literacy and numeracy, thus integrating education and professional studies undertaken at the University, and the school-based professional learning experiences. This professional experience should develop and extend preservice teachers’ teaching, learning and management strategies.

EDFX213 Professional Experience Primary 2B

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX110 Professional Experience 1

This unit together with EDFX212 are the equivalent of EDFX216.

The aim of this professional experience in the primary teacher education program is to provide opportunities for preservice teachers to become immersed in the life of the school program through participation in a combination of full-day professional experiences and a block practicum. This professional experience should develop and extend preservice teachers’ teaching, learning and management strategies, particularly at a whole class level. It should also provide opportunities for integration between education and professional studies undertaken at the University, and the school-based professional learning experiences.

EDFX214 Professional Experience Secondary 2

0 cp
Prerequisite EDFX110 Professional Experience 1

The aim of this professional experience in ACU National’s teacher education program is to provide opportunities for preservice teachers to become immersed in the life of the school program through participation in a combination of full-day professional experiences and a Block practicum. This professional experience should develop and extend preservice teachers’ teaching, learning and management strategies. It should also provide opportunities for integration between education and professional studies undertaken at the University, and the school-based professional learning experiences.

EDFX215 Professional Experience Early Childhood 2

0 cp

This unit expands the opportunities for orientating the early childhood preservice teacher/carer to the profession by emphasising professional interaction, familiarisation and guided observation of children aged 3-5 years and the centres and staff working with them. It offers opportunities to develop further, an awareness of the needs of children and to promote an understanding of child development and wellbeing. Through observation and discussion the preservice teacher/carer is able to understand and develop elementary teaching and management skills and to undertake some introductory activities with these children aged 3-5 years.

EDFX216 Professional Experience Primary 2

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX110 Professional Experience 1

The aim of this professional experience in the primary teacher education program is to provide opportunities for preservice teachers to become immersed in the life of the school program through participation in a combination of full-day professional experiences and a Block practicum. This professional experience should develop and extend preservice teachers’ teaching, learning and management strategies. It should also provide opportunities for integration between education and professional studies undertaken at the University, and the school-based professional learning experiences.

EDFX300 Field Experience 3

0 cp

This unit refines and enhances teaching and learning approaches to provide for individual learning differences. The unit offers opportunities for students to apply principles of curriculum planning, to refine and consolidate evaluation and assessment techniques and strategies, refine management and discipline skills, apply appropriate curriculum knowledge through lesson and unit preparation and implementation and to promote a variety of interpersonal skills to reflect critically on experience.

EDFX310 Professional Experience Primary 3

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX216 Professional Experience Primary 2 or EDFX212 Professional Experience Primary 2A and EDFX213 Professional Experience Primary 2B

The third year of the primary professional experience program builds upon the work commenced during Professional Experience 2 and extends preservice teachers’ understanding of the complexity of the teaching and learning process in regard to individual differences, cultural diversity, and context. Through placements, including remote, rural and international settings, preservice teachers are able to engage in professional learning experiences that provide opportunities for the development of new knowledge and skills, deeper cultural awareness, and professional identity. Students are expected to take responsibility for planning and implementing whole class learning experiences for an extended sequential period as well as participating in other school activities.

EDFX311 Professional Experience Secondary 3

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX214 Professional Experience Secondary 2

The third year of the professional experience program builds upon the work commenced during Professional Experience Secondary 2 and extends preservice teachers’ understanding of the complexity of the teaching and learning process in regard to individual differences, cultural diversity, and context. Through placements, including rural and international settings, preservice teachers are able to engage in professional learning experiences that provide opportunities for the development of new knowledge and skills, deeper cultural awareness, and professional identity. In particular the preservice teachers are focussing on building their pedagogical knowledge and practice within their key learning area/s.

EDFX312 Professional Experience Secondary 3A

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX214 Professional Experience Secondary 2

This unit together with EDFX313 are the equivalent of EDFX311.

The third year of the professional experience program builds upon the work commenced during Professional Experience Secondary 2 and extends preservice teachers’ understanding of the complexity of the teaching and learning process in regard to individual differences, cultural diversity, and context. The preservice teachers are working in their specialty areas taking lessons and building towards teaching lesson sequences, connecting the knowledge they have gained in their curriculum and teaching units to their practice. Through their placements preservice teachers are able to engage in professional learning experiences that provide opportunities for the development of new knowledge and skills, deeper cultural awareness, and professional identity.

EDFX313 Professional Experience Secondary 3B

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX214 Professional Experience Secondary 2

This unit together with EDFX312 are the equivalent of EDFX311.

The third year of the professional experience program builds upon the work commenced during Professional Experience Secondary 2 and extends preservice teachers’ understanding of the complexity of the teaching and learning process in regard to individual differences, cultural diversity, and context. Through placements, including rural and international settings, preservice teachers are able to engage in professional learning experiences that provide opportunities for the development of new knowledge and skills, deeper cultural awareness, and professional identity. In particular the preservice teachers are focussing on building their pedagogical knowledge and practice within their Key Learning Area/s as they teach sequences of lessons across a range of classes in secondary schools.

EDFX314 Professional Experience Early Childhood 3

0 cp
Prerequisites EDFX215 Professional Experience Early Childhood 2

The third year of the professional experience program builds upon the work commenced during Professional Experience Early Childhood 2 and extends preservice teachers’ understanding of the complexity of the teaching and learning process in regard to individual differences, cultural diversity, and context as they begin to work with children aged 5-8. Through placements, including remote, rural and international settings, preservice teachers are able to engage in professional learning experiences that provide opportunities for the development of new knowledge and skills, deeper cultural awareness, and professional identity. Students are expected to take responsibility for planning and implementing whole class learning experiences for an extended sequential period as well as participating in other school activities.