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 supervising 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, pre-service teachers apply knowledge gained throughout the first year to practise the skills of planning, teaching, managing the learning environment, and assessing and recording student learning and they are assessed against the relevant focus areas of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers by their supervising teachers. Pre-service teachers 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 effective teaching practice to improve student learning.
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 units in the Bachelor of Education course in which they are enrolled to be eligible for enrolment in this unit 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 | 50% |
2. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
3. Portfolio | 50% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
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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 unit 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 unit 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 Early Childhood Education and Care are also embedded in this unit 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.
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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 | • | • | • |