UWA Handbook 2025

Unit Overview

Description

This unit develops students' expertise in the planning, delivery and assessment of targeted interventions in early childhood or primary education within a 5-day professional practice placement. Students plan a focused intervention project for individual school students or groups of students. The project represents a response to a particular need identified at individual, group, class or school level in consultation with school partners. The unit contains a strong action–reflective practice and research informed dimension. Primary students choose to conduct an intervention in English or Mathematics and Early Childhood students conduct an intervention in Mathematics.

Credit

6 points

Offering

Availability	Location	Mode
Not available in 2025	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) develop an evidence based plan of action on the basis of diagnostic assessment or other information (data) about an individual child, or group of children; (2) implement and evaluate a short-term intervention in a selected curriculum learning area; (3) report on the intervention to parents/carers; (4) meet professional ethics and responsibilities; (5) seek and apply constructive feedback from mentor teachers to improve practice; (6) critically review an area of research literature as appropriate to the intervention; (7) write a scholarly research report; and (8) engage in classroom-based research.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) a research proposal/plan; (2) five days professional practice; (3) a research report; and (4) participation. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the a research proposal/plan, five days professional practice, a research report, and participation components.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Grace Oakley

Unit rules

Prerequisites

EDUC5510 Professional Practice A EDUC5504 Language and Literacy in Early Childhood EDUC5502 Teaching Mathematics in the Early Years

Co-requisites

EDUC5710 Advanced Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

Incidental fees

Incidental student fees and charges are costs incurred by students as part of their studies at UWA that are in addition to their tuition fees (further information is available "
Participation in this unit will incur the following incidental fee(s):
Student Name Badges (estimated cost - 9).

Contact hours

30 hours (face to face and online) plus 5 days professional practice

Note

Conditions for Professional Practice units:
(1) A current Department of Education National Police History Check and a Working with Children Clearance must be presented before any student undertakes professional practice in schools. If a clearance is not given a student must approach the Department of Education for permission to proceed (see Professional requirements). Students are required to read, sign and adopt the Graduate Studies of Education (GSE) Professional Code of Conduct.
(2) Students must gain a pass grade on assessments in core and curriculum units in which they are concurrently enrolled.
(3) Students must pass the Pre-service Teacher Language Competence Test. Unsatisfactory results will be reviewed by a panel of three course coordinators.