Practice in Partnership 4
Credit points
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
Online Real Time
Online Self-Paced
St Albans
VU Brisbane
VU Sydney
Prerequisites
ECE2002 - Practice in Partnership 2
ECE3003 - Practice in Partnership 3
ECE2004 - Engaging with Place through Rethinking Childhoods and Development
ECE2005 - Engaging with Place through Play
ECE3001 - Thinking with Young Children: Language and Literacy
ECE3002 - Advocacy in Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Education
ECE3006 - Thinking with Young Children: Science, Maths and Technology
ECE3004 - Critical and Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
Preservice teachers will undertake 30 days of professional placement experience that is the final preparation to enter the teaching profession as activist and critical teachers who enact the broad justice principles of social inclusion and respecting difference. Preservice teachers will undertake the professional experience with a qualified early childhood teacher mentor within an early childhood setting, working collaboratively with staff, families and the community. Preservice teachers will articulate and connect their philosophical and theoretical standpoints to generate illustrations of practice in the Australian Professional Standards domains of teaching; Professional Knowledge, Professional Practice and Professional Engagement.?
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Articulate knowledge, practice and engagement of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at Graduate level;
- Infer and conceptually map philosophical, theoretical and contemporary educational perspectives identifying self-situated practice;
- Devise curriculum artefacts and objects that illustrate professional practice within the 3 domains of teaching (Professional Knowledge, Professional Practice, Professional Engagement);
- Design illustrations of practice that demonstrate graduate competencies for employment opportunities.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment type: Assignment | Grade: 30%
Personal philosophy statement that describes and analyses contemporary educational practices that identify self-situated practice
Assessment type: Portfolio | Grade: 70%
Illustrations of practice that demonstrate competency at the graduate level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Hurdle Requirement: Satisfactory completion of Professional Experience placement.
Due to this unit being a professional placement unit, 80% mandatory attendance applies.
Required reading
Links to other relevant texts will be made available via VU Collaborate.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):