Unit details

EDUC5536 Professional Practice B Secondary

Credit

12 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Non-standard teaching period	UWA (Perth)	Face to face
Non-standard teaching period	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Content

Students undertake 30 days of professional teaching practice in an accredited government or non-government educational setting, under the guidance of a mentor teacher who provides assistance in planning learning experiences/lessons, programming, assessment and management of the learning environment. Students will also complete a capstone project based on their professional practice experience in this unit.

Students will attend workshops prior to their professional practice, to explore and build on key professional competencies and duties of the teaching profession.

Within the Master of Teaching Secondary course, students will take two professional placement units. Students will teach primarily in their major curriculum area. In EDUC5535 Professional Practice A Secondary, students will undertake 35 days of professional practice. In EDUC5536 Professional Practice B Secondary, students will undertake 30 days of professional practice and complete a capstone project. EDUC5535 must be completed before EDUC5536.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) know students and how they learn: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of children's characteristics and development. Plan and implement learning strategies and teaching techniques to cater for students with diverse backgrounds, range of abilities, social skills and motivation for learning.; (2) know the content and how to teach it: Apply content and subject knowledge to establish effective teaching programs that cater for students with diverse backgrounds, range of abilities, social skills and motivation for learning. Draw on a wide range of instructional strategies and resources (including ICT), to foster critical thinking and opportunities for independent and collaborative learning.; (3) design and implement with confidence a variety of learning, assessment and instructional strategies and resources (including ICT), which take into consideration students with diverse backgrounds, range of abilities, social skills and motivation for learning.; (4) create and maintain safe learning environments to promote positive behaviours, which includes the management of student participation, classroom activities and the safe and responsible use of ICT.; (5) assess, provide feedback and report on student learning: Design a range of assessment strategies and interpret data collected to make judgements about future teaching interventions, and report on student's achievements.; (6) demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key principles of the Code of Ethics for the teaching profession, legislative acts and regulations; and (7) successfully meet the requirements of the AITSL mandated Teaching Performance Assessment.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) professional practice reports submitted by UWA supervisor and teacher mentors and (2) capstone project: Assessment for Graduate Teachers (AfGT). 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 professional practice reports submitted by UWA supervisor and teacher mentors and capstone project: Assessment for Graduate Teachers (AfGT) components.

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Rachel Wicking

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

EDUC5535 Professional Practice A Secondary; demonstration of a good standard of literacy and satisfactory progress in course 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 here or contact your Faculty Office).
Participation in this unit will incur the following incidental fee(s):
Student Name Badges (estimated cost - 9).

Contact hours

lectures/workshops: 2 hours per week for 6 weeks; professional practice: 35 days full-time attendance in schools and educational settings

Unit Outline

Non-standard teaching period [TS-A-2B_2019]
Non-standard teaching period [TS-A-4C_2019]

Note

Conditions for Professional Practice units:
1. A current Department of Education National Police History Check (NPHC) 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 are reviewed by a panel of three course coordinators.