Professional Practice 1 introduces pre-service teachers to the teaching profession and work-integrated learning in school settings through tutorial workshops and a school placement comprising 20 days of practical experience under the guidance of a mentor teacher. Placements take the form of 5 non-assessable contextual days and 5 assessable day visits throughout the term followed by a 2-week block period of assessable practice at the end of the term. During the placement, students apply knowledge gained throughout the first year to practise the skills of observing teaching and learning; gathering, interpreting and using information about learners as the basis for planning and teaching; communicating effectively in educational environments; and reflecting on practice; and they are assessed against the relevant focus areas of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers by their mentor teachers. Students maintain professional records of their practice in the form of a working portfolio and compile evidence of their demonstration of aspects of the Standards in an e-portfolio. A major emphasis of this course is the development of the disposition for ongoing professional learning through reflection on the professional role and responsibilities of teachers and evaluation of models of effective teaching practice.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 1 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Students must have successfully completed at least three first year courses in the Bachelor of Education program in which they are enrolled to be eligible for enrolment in this course and placement in an educational setting for completion of the practical component. 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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).
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.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Written Assessment | 0% |
2. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
3. Portfolio | 0% |
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.
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Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 87.72% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18.27% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Learning outcomes for the course Professional Practice 1 - Introduction to Teaching explicitly reflect the knowledge and understanding of the three domains of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at a level suitable for first year pre-service teachers. In addition, the course learning outcomes promote understanding of the complex nature of teaching in diverse settings and the application of reflection processes essential for engaging in a cycle of continuous professional learning to improve practice. Competency elements from the Diploma of Children's Services (Early Childhood Education and Care) including CHCPR502E: 1, 2, 3 and 4; CHCPR509A: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; CHCPR510B: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; CHCPR614C: 1, 2, 3 and 4; CHCFC301A: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; CHCPR301B: 1, 2 and 3; and CHCPR303D: 1, 2, 3 and 4 are also embedded in this course and demonstrated through practice in an authentic setting . The assessment reports for the professional practice placement should be retained by pre-service teachers for inclusion in a professional portfolio for employment interviews and selected artefacts from the working portfolio maintained throughout the placement should be added to an e-portfolio which has a focus on evidence of standards and the identification of professional learning needs.
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||||
2 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
3 - Portfolio | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
5 - Team Work | • | ||||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | ||||
8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||||||||
2 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
3 - Portfolio | • | • | • |