PR537.300 Professional Practice: Supported Teaching Secondary (10 days)
PR635.300 Professional Practice: Supported Teaching Secondary (25 days)
PR637.300 Professional Practice: Teaching Secondary (25 days)
On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
Diagnose students’ learning proficiencies using a variety of assessment strategies and interrogate the students data to identify and target student development.
Develop differentiated learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics.
Devise and implement informed and targeted interventions to enhance student learning using a range of strategies to differentiate teaching according to the specific learning needs of a diverse range of students
Seek constructive feedback from mentors, teachers and other experts to reflect upon and improve teaching practices and learning outcomes.
Synthesise information gathered from policy documents, legislative and school processes, educational theory and other relevant sources to advance learning and teaching in the classroom.
Evaluate the outcomes of learning and teaching interventions in the secondary classroom and propose subsequent learning and teaching foci for the students.
This unit is typically completed in the same semester as PR732.300 Professional Practice: Teaching Secondary (30 days). The unit focuses on developing a reflective practice in order to improve classroom practices, and introduces the concept and processes of action research in the classroom. The unit covers aspects of students’ learning behaviours and needs that pre-service teachers may observe in secondary school classroom contexts. The unit covers how to identify needs and plan practices in response to needs, how to collect and analyse data to monitor impact, and plan improvements to practices in order to improve outcomes. During the final professional practice pre-service teachers will implement this process in response to observed learning behaviours and needs exhibited in one of their placement classes.
The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.
This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.