Entering the Profession

Unit code: EEC4103 | Study level: Undergraduate
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Footscray Park
Online Real Time
Other
EEC3000 - Differentiation for Students with Disabilities (applicable for EBPE students ONLY)
EEC3004 - Pedagogy Today (applicable for EBPE students ONLY)
EEC3005 - Social and Emotional Learning (applicable for EBPE students ONLY)
EEC3006 - Respectful Relationships (applicable for EBPE students ONLY)
EEC3007 - Digital Teaching and Learning (applicable for EBPE students ONLY)
EEC3008 - Assessment and Reporting in the Primary School (applicable for EBPE students ONLY)
EEC4110 - Curriculum and Assessment in Primary Literacy (applicable for EBED students ONLY)
ECP3101 - Junior Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy (applicable for EBED students ONLY)
ECP3102 - Secondary Specialisation Assessment and Reporting (applicable for EBED students ONLY)
ECP3103 - Senior Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy (applicable for EBED students ONLY)
ECP3104 – Innovations in Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy (applicable for EBED students ONLY) Satisfactory completion of Year 3 school practicum. Successful completion of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE).
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Overview
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Overview

This capstone unit enables you to encapsulate your work in the Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Education (Primary) courses. The unit enables students as Year 4 students to work with colleagues, principals, other school leaders and teachers in meeting National Standards in order to comply with registration requirements. Students will undertake a critical overview of teachers’ professional roles and responsibilities, including professional ethics and responsibilities. This unit also connects to the course learning outcomes of displaying competence and sophistication in a range of verbal and non-verbal communication techniques, including in the use of Information and Communication Technologies to engage and connect with students. You will develop an awareness of the organisational and legal conditions of teachers’ work, informing relationships with and teaching students, planning and managing curriculum and pedagogy, working with colleagues in leadership teams, and engaging with the school, parents/carers and wider community.


Students will develop skills needed to secure employment, these include preparing job applications, responding to selection criteria, interview techniques and awareness of professional networks and professional learning opportunities. There will be a developing awareness of the transferable skills that are gained through completing a Bachelor of Education, and how these can be applied to a range of other professions, which includes engaging with professional teaching and broader networks. Students will engage in professional experience in schools, where you will demonstrate an understanding of the rationale for continued professional learning and the implications for improved student learning. You will also demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Contextualise their understandings of the legislative, administrative and organisational requirements of teachers’ work, including policies and processes required for teachers according to school stage, and the key principles described in codes of ethics and conduct for the teaching profession, including seeking and applying constructive feedback from mentors and teachers to improve teaching practices;
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of how students learn, including a personal and social commitment to education and the enhancement of learning outcomes;
  3. Articulate a broad knowledge of educational practices, including the ability to organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequences, manage curriculum and pedagogy, communicate effectively and demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice, including understand strategies for working effectively, sensitively and confidentially with parents/carers;
  4. Investigate the process and methods of seeking and gaining employment in educational or other relevant professional settings, including understanding the role of external professionals and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Assignment
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Grade: 20%
Evidence of Professional Engagement
Assessment type: Presentation
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Grade: 10%
Feedback to peers
Assessment type: Report
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Grade: 70%
Assessment for Graduate Teaching Element 1, 2 & 3

Required reading

Teaching: dilemmas, challenges and opportunities.
Ewing, R., Kervin, L., Glass, C., Gobby, B., Le Cornu, R., & Groundwater-Smith, S., (2020).| Cengage Learning.

As part of a course

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