ECP228 - Professional Practice 2 (3-5 Years)
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Jessica Ciuciu |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E330, E333 or E334 |
| Prerequisite: | 5 credit points at level one and ECP227 or ECE212 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3-hour seminar per non-placement teaching weeks |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per non-placement teaching weeks |
| In-person attendance requirements: | The unit also includes a professional experience (placement) (25-days) For the most up-to-date advice regarding your placement please see here. |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only. | |
Content
This unit will provide students with opportunities to engage with the education and care of children from 4 -5 years of age and apply theories of child development and learning in practical contexts. In a professional experience placement, students will observe and engage with a small group of focus children to assess and analyse their learning.
Students will set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for the varying abilities and characteristics of the children, and respond to these through planning, implementation and evaluation of learning experiences. Throughout these tasks, student will critically analyse and reflect on their professional practice and teaching identity alongside their mentor teacher.
Students will make critical connections between theory and practice and incorporate their understandings about the National Quality Framework legislative and regulatory requirements (including the childcare accreditation requirements), and National and Victorian Curriculum documents in the context of teaching, learning and care for children from 3-5 years of age. They will strengthen their knowledge and practice of assessment, planning, teaching practices and evaluation with increased responsibility to individual and group learning while on placement. Specifically, students will reflect on their knowledge, set learning goals and evaluate their progress to meeting these learning goals with regards to the teaching and learning of children from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
In this unit, students will be introduced to the role of the educational leader where they are required to critically examine the roles and responsibilities of this position during their professional experience placement.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Evaluate and apply knowledge of key regulatory requirements, curriculum frameworks and documentation in the context of teaching, learning and care for children aged 3-5 years of age | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO2 | Critically analyse AITSL standards for graduate teachers and show understanding of the relevance they have to themselves and the early childhood teaching community | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO3 | Interpret and reflect on own teaching and learning practices, pedagogies and knowledge to set professional learning goals through the analysis of reflections, feedback and professional practice documentation | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO4 | Apply knowledge of curriculum, policy and regulation required of teachers into their professional practice, including assessment and interpretation of children’s learning, lesson planning and a range of teaching practices | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO5 | Use digital technologies to synthesise, curate and present information in an ePortfolio to a wide range of audiences | GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 - Professional goals (Critical Task) | 1000 words or equivalent | 25% | Information not yet available |
| Assessment 2 - Position description for the Educational Leader | 1000 words or equivalent | 25% | Information not yet available |
| Assessment 3 - Investigation of professional knowledge & practice | 2000 words or equivalent | 50% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
Professional experience is a requirement of the Victorian Institution of Teaching and ACECQA for the preparation of teachers. In this unit you will complete 25 days of the required days in your early childhood course. Satisfactory completion of the professional experience is required in order to pass this unit.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ECP228
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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