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EDFX400 Field Experience 4                                                                                                                  0 cp

 

This unit facilitates induction into the profession. It focuses on the identification of the professional role as one of reflective practitioner, learner and investigator within particular contexts. The unit offers students an appreciation of the professional role through a collegial and collaborative partnership with relevant staff. The unit offers opportunities to apply the principles of integrated curriculum, and to extend and refine the student’s repertoire of pedagogical skills in planning and delivery of appropriate teaching and learning programs.

 

EDFX404 Reflection on the Practice of Teaching                                                                                   0 cp

 

This unit provides opportunity for synthesis of both theoretical and practice perspectives on teaching developed within the course. The unit has two complementary strands. Firstly, there is study of the processes of learning to teach, with an emphasis on learning through research and reflection. Secondly, the students undertake extended practical experiences in schools, or other education settings, and engage in participatory research on that experience. All units offered concurrent to this unit contribute to the research aspects of the Field Experience.

 

EDFX405 Field Experience                                                                                                                    0 cp

 

Experiences will be provided in different schools with different teachers and year levels. Phase one orients the student teacher to the school community, the school’s policies and procedures and teaching. Through observation and practice this phase enables the student teacher to develop basic skills in teaching such as planning and “sound classroom management” and in structuring a variety of “learning tasks effectively”. Phase two, through further observation and practice, enables the student teacher to become “flexible and responsive in understanding roles as facilitator, information transmitter or resource person in the classroom. This phase also enables the student teacher to develop and “establish clear, challenging and achievable expectations for students” and to “improve learning outcomes for all students by employment of a wide range of teaching approaches which foster independent and cooperative learning, and cater for different learning styles”. Both phases provide student teachers with the opportunities to develop and “demonstrate sound classroom management maintaining an orderly and safer environment while maximising effective learning time”.

 

EDFX406 Primary Field Experience 3                                                                                                    0 cp

 

This unit facilitates induction into the profession. It focuses on the identification of the professional role as one of reflective practitioner, learner and investigator within particular contexts. The unit offers students an appreciation of the professional role through a collegial and collaborative partnership with relevant staff. The unit offers opportunities to apply the principles of integrated curriculum, and to extend and refine the student’s repertoire of pedagogical skills in planning and delivery of appropriate teaching and learning programs.

 

EDFX407 Primary Field Experience 4                                                                                                    0 cp

 

This unit orients the student to teaching and develops basic teaching and learning skills. The unit is designed to develop professional competence and personal commitment through interaction, familiarisation and guided observation. The unit offers classroom based opportunities assisting the application of pedagogical skills and content knowledge of key learning areas appropriate to the student’s Curriculum and Teaching Study areas and the development of classroom management techniques in the context of schooling and culture.

 

EDFX408 Field Experience 2                                                                                                                  0 cp

 

This unit extends and refines teaching and learning skills and approaches. This unit is designed to allow students to demonstrate theoretical and methodological components of the academic program in the classroom context. The unit focuses on the identification of the professional role of the teacher as one of reflective practitioner, learner and educator. The unit refines interpersonal skills within the classroom and the school community and is designed to allow the student to demonstrate developing competence in planning for and preparation of an integrated sequence of lessons and programs for each curriculum and teaching study area nominated.

 

EDFX409/EDFX505 Internship                                                                                                               20 cp

 

This unit comprises a 10 week block of teaching incorporating a pre-Internship and Internship: Phases A, B and C. It is expected that the orientation tie (Phase A) will involve 5 days within the school. Phase B and C comprise 10 weeks of teaching. In Phase B students are directly supervised in their teaching. On being graded satisfactory students progress to Phase C for a sustained period of indirectly supervised teaching. This unit facilitates induction into the profession. It focuses on the identification of the professional role as one of reflective practitioner. The unit offers opportunities to extend and refine the student’s repertoire of pedagogical skills.

 

EDFX410 Secondary Field Experience 1                                                                                                0 cp

 

This unit orients the student to teaching and develops basic teaching and learning skills. The unit is designed to develop professional competence and personal commitment through interaction, familiarisation and guided observation. The unit offers classroom based opportunities assisting the application of pedagogical skills and content knowledge of key learning areas appropriate to the student’s Curriculum and Teaching Study areas and the development of classroom management techniques in the context of schooling and culture.

 

EDFX411 Secondary Field Experience 2                                                                                                 0 cp

 

This unit extends and refines teaching and learning skills and approaches. This unit is designed to allow students to demonstrate theoretical and methodological components of the academic program in the classroom context. The unit focuses on the identification of the professional role of the teacher as one of reflective practitioner, learner and educator. The unit refines interpersonal skills within the classroom and the school community and is designed to allow the student to demonstrate developing competence in planning for and preparation of an integrated sequence of lessons and programs for each curriculum and teaching study area nominated.

 

EDFX500Professional Practice A                                                                                                          10 cp

 

This unit orients the student to teaching and develops basic teaching and learning skills. The unit is designed to develop professional competence and personal commitment through interaction, familiarisation and guided observation. The unit offers classroom based opportunities assisting the application of pedagogical skills and content knowledge of key learning areas appropriate to the student’s Curriculum and Teaching Study areas and the development of classroom management techniques in the context of schooling and culture.

 

EDFX501 Professional Practice B                                                                                                         10 cp

 

This unit extends and refines teaching and learning skills and approaches. This unit is designed to allow students to demonstrate theoretical and methodological components of the academic program in the classroom context. The unit focuses on the identification of the professional role of the teacher as one of reflective practitioner, learner and educator. The unit refines interpersonal skills within the classroom and the school community and is designed to allow the student to demonstrate developing competence in planning for and preparation of an integrated sequence of lessons and programs for each curriculum and teaching study area nominated.

 

EDFX503 Graduate Professional Experience 1                                                                                      0 cp

 

This unit involves students in a placement in a school. Students are expected to take responsibility for planning and implementing whole class learning experiences in their specialist areas foe an extended sequential period. Observations of teaching by generalist and/or specialist classroom teachers and participation in other activities of the school are also an expectation.

 

EDFX504 Graduate Professional Experience 2                                                                                      0 cp

 

This unit involves students in a placement in a school. Students are expected to plan and implement small group and/or whole class learning experiences in their specialist areas as well as observe teaching by generalist and/or specialist classroom teachers.

 

EDFX505 (see EDFX409) Internship                                                                                                        20 cp

 

EDFX600 Graduate Professional Experience                                                                                       10 cp

 

This field-based unit is a process of practical induction into a set of roles pertaining to the teacher as leader and facilitator of peer professional development within the educational sphere. It draws on the theoretical and practical aspects of the content, issues and experiences of the other units of the Masters of Education course. It emphasises the critical reflective approach that is essential to bring about change in an educational context. For the duration of this unit, students will have part-time placements in one or more schools, educational institutes or teacher resource centres where their practical learning experiences can occur.