EDUC9231 Professional Experience 1 (Early Childhood)

Overview

This Professional Teaching Practice occurs in the first year of the Early Childhood Master of Teaching degrees and Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Birth to 5). Preliminary single-day visits are followed by a full-time block placement, in a metropolitan or country early childhood setting. Emphasis is placed on the … For more content click the Read More button below.

Emphasis is placed on the planning, implementation, and evaluation of teaching programs. Close links are established between curriculum studies at Flinders and centre/school curricula through the designing, evaluating, implementing, analysing, and theorising about their placement site's curriculum inquiry focus. At the conclusion of this teaching experience in the Master of Teaching degrees, judgments are made about the pre-service teacher's readiness to continue to the final placement topic. For the Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education (Birth to 5), pre-service teachers will evidence their capacity to graduate from the course.

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Aims

This professional learning experience provides students with an opportunity to:

Make a meaningful contribution to children's learning and the setting's curriculum goals and priorities
Deepen their understandings of how children learn and develop through a process of praxis, in which they research, inquire, test and use the theoretical knowledge that they have acquired and are acquiring
Use a variety of observation techniques to gain insight into the types of experiences, activities and ideas that engage young children
Plan, implement and evaluate a curriculum that involves and engages children in deep and meaningful learning
Engage in praxis, or theoretically informed teaching
Document children's involvement and engagement in the curriculum and assess their learning over an extended period of time
Recognise the importance of families in children's lives and learning
Work as a constructive, collaborative and cooperative team member
Document and organise evidence of their developing professional knowledge, professional practice and professional relationships

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Professional Experience 1 (Early Childhood)