Overview
Professional Practice 4 provides you with opportunities for full immersion in all aspects of professional practice and critical reflection during your final supervised professional experience. You will undertake 30 days professional experience comprising five one day visits to prepare you for the continuous five week (25 day) teaching block in a classroom environment. Embedded in this unit is the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA), a culminating authentic assessment designed to enable you to demonstrate achievement of the professional standards and provide confirmation of your readiness for classroom practice. Your response to this task will be a reflection of your teaching practice including the elements of teaching, planning, assessing and reflecting through demonstrating your ability to use data to improve learning and teaching by aligning curriculum, pedagogy and assessment taking into consideration school contexts and learner diversity. The block placement culminates in the completion of the Final Professional Experience Recommendation form through measuring the standard that has been achieved by you through comparing it against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Career Stage). Achieving the Graduate Career Stage illustrates your readiness to enter the workplace. You must pass all assessment tasks to pass this unit.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite:- Students must have completed all coursework with the exception of EDED14354 and EDFE14020. In addition, this unit has co-requisites. Students must be enrolled in both EDED14354 and EDFE14020 in the same term of study as this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2018
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
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Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student evaluation
Return of the results and feedback from the GTPA in a timely manner.
Placement block and assessment task due date have been amended.
- Perform the role of a professional educator by creating and managing a supportive learning environment and using well-planned lesson sequences and effective teaching strategies to promote student engagement and learning
- Identify opportunities for students to purposefully and safely use ICTs to access, construct and communicate knowledge beyond the immediate environment
- Critically reflect on teaching practice, assessment data and information about students to create and implement inclusive learning experiences that cater for the needs of all students
- Maintain detailed records that monitor student learning outcomes and meet system reporting requirements
- Seek and apply constructive feedback to improve professional practice and student learning outcomes
- Reflect on professional standards and codes of ethics and conduct for the profession to determine personal learning goals.
Assessment in this unit is consistent with the Professional Experience Reporting Framework in Queensland. Pre-service teachers demonstrate the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Career Stage) during the placement for this unit. Additionally pre-service teachers will complete the written component of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment task based on their planning and teaching during the placement, which is explicitly aligned with the Professional Experience Reporting Framework.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 0% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 0% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- iTunes account for your ePortfolio
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.ambrosetti@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Within the unit we will specifically cover the following topics:
- Professional Practice 4 requirements
- The Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA)
- Teacher Registration and Employment processes
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Intensive session - Thursday 12 July 11am – 1pm (Qld time)
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Intensive session - Thursday 2 August 11am-1pm (Qld time)
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Intensive session - Monday 13 August 11am-1pm (Qld time)
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Professional Practice 5 (25 days)
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Please access the Professional Practice Calendar for the schedule for Professional Practice 4 placement. Any changes to the schedule must be approved by the unit coordinator or the Academic Director of Professional Practice.
1 Professional Practice Placement
Professional Practice 4 is the fourth assessable placement and consists of 5 non-assessed contextual days and a 25 day continuous, assessable block placement. Professional Practice 4 is designed to provide final year pre-service teachers with the opportunity to demonstrate the professional knowledge, skills and engagement embedded in the focus areas of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at Graduate Career Stage. Pre-service teachers will immerse themselves in the role of a teacher and are expected to build towards continuous teaching by the beginning of week 3. The Professional Practice 4 Information and Guidelines booklet contains a weekly outline of tasks and requirements.
Working Portfolio
Pre-service teachers are required to keep and maintain a Working Portfolio for the duration of Professional Practice 4. The working portfolio will provide evidence of demonstration of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at Graduate Career Stage and will document your learning journey.
Queensland Professional Experience Reporting Framework (QPERF)
Pre-service teachers will be assessed using the Queensland Professional Experience Reporting Framework by their mentor teacher at the end of the 5-week block. Prior to this, the interim report is to be completed by the mentor teacher at the end of week 3 so as to provide the pre-service teacher with an opportunity to identify strengths and areas for improvement. The interim report should be placed in the working portfolio.
Pre-service teachers are required to upload their final report into the Task 1 assessment link in Moodle.
The Queensland Professional Experience Recommendations report should be uploaded within 1 week of completing PP4 - September 28, 2018
The Queensland Professional Experience Recommendations report will be signed by the university coordinator and uploaded into Moodle in due time.
Pre-service teachers will be assessed using the Queensland Professional Experience Reporting Framework. A copy of the criteria can be found in the Professional Practice 4 Information and Reporting Guidelines.
- Perform the role of a professional educator by creating and managing a supportive learning environment and using well-planned lesson sequences and effective teaching strategies to promote student engagement and learning
- Identify opportunities for students to purposefully and safely use ICTs to access, construct and communicate knowledge beyond the immediate environment
- Critically reflect on teaching practice, assessment data and information about students to create and implement inclusive learning experiences that cater for the needs of all students
- Maintain detailed records that monitor student learning outcomes and meet system reporting requirements
- Seek and apply constructive feedback to improve professional practice and student learning outcomes
- Reflect on professional standards and codes of ethics and conduct for the profession to determine personal learning goals.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
As part of Professional Practice 4, you will complete the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment which will provide explicit evidence of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. The Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) comprises of the following:
- A context statement which describes the learning site where the GTPA was completed and a summary of the unit of work or learning sequence (the GTPA template is to be used for this statement).
- Five components (practices) which present your teaching, learning and assessment practice over the period of the placement, along with a reflection and appraisal with accompanying evidence ( as outlined below).
- Table of evidence and data used in the GTPA
- Accompanying evidence as specified for each practice
- Evidence of moderation processes
- Reference list of all materials used in APA 6th.
The four components of the written part of the GTPA:
Practice 1: Planning using data and evidence
This practice involves collecting and interpreting a range of data and evidence to inform your planning and teaching in order to establish students' learning needs and current levels of performance, desired levels of performance and strategies to progress learning. It will also demonstrate the alignment of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy. This component will be no more than 1000 words, excluding evidence.
Practice 2: Teaching and learning
This practice involves the implementation and reporting on a range of suitably challenging and engaging teaching and learning strategies that connect to and build on students' prior learning, provide differentiation, teach general capabilities including literacy and numeracy, as well as your ability to make ongoing adjustments. This component will be no more than 1000 words, excluding evidence.
Practice 3: Assessing, feedback and professional judgement
This practice involves reporting on the selection and use of a variety of assessment tools, the provision of feedback to learners, making judgements about student work and engaging in moderation. This component will be no more than 1000 words, excluding evidence.
Practice 4: Reflecting on teaching
This practice involves describing and analysing initial and ongoing data choices, identifying and describing differences between planned and enacted teaching, discussing the monitoring of student progress and the modification of teaching and assessment strategies, and identifying and justifying future teaching and assessment practices. This component will be no more than 1000 words, excluding evidence.
Practice 5: Appraising impact of teaching
In this practice, you will appraise the impact of your teaching through the use of two scenarios that connect theory, enacted practice and the curated body of evidence, and you will examine and discuss teaching decisions. This component will be no more than 1000 words, excluding evidence.
Week 11 Friday (28 Sept 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
The GTPA is to be uploaded one week after the completion of PP4 - September 28, 2018
The GTPA will be returned after moderation processes have occurred.
The assessment criteria are aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at Graduate Career Stage.
- Critically reflect on teaching practice, assessment data and information about students to create and implement inclusive learning experiences that cater for the needs of all students
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
