Practice in Partnership 4

    Unit code: ECE3007 | Study level: Undergraduate
    24
    (Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
    Footscray Nicholson
    Online Real Time
    Online Self-Paced
    St Albans
    ECE2001 - Practice in Partnership 1
    ECE2002 - Practice in Partnership 2
    ECE3003 - Practice in Partnership 3
    (Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
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    Overview

    Preservice teachers will undertake an extended period of professional experience that is the final preparation to enter the teaching profession as activist and critical teachers that enact the broad justice principles of social inclusion and respecting difference. Preservice teachers will undertake 30 days of professional experience with a qualified 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 domains of teaching; Professional, knowledge, professional practice and professional engagement.

    Learning Outcomes

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

    1. Articulate knowledge, practice and engagement at Graduate level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
    2. Infer and conceptually map philosophical, theoretical and contemporary educational perspectives identifying self-situated practice.
    3. Devise curriculum artefacts and objects that illustrate professional practice within the 3 domains of teaching (Professional Knowledge, Professional Practice, Professional Engagement).
    4. Design illustrations of practice that demonstrate graduate competencies for employment opportunities.

    Assessment

    For Melbourne campuses

    Assessment type: Assignment
    |
    Grade: 30%
    Paper 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 Standards for Professional Teachers

    Required reading

    Links to other relevant texts will be made available via VU Collaborate.

    Being an early childhood educator: bringing theory and practice together
    McArdle, F, Gibson, M & Zollo, L 2015| Allen & Unwin, Sydney

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