Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education

Please refer to the Professional Experience Handbook

Professional Experience 1: Introduction to Classrooms – TEAC1029

This subject is designed to introduce Pre-service Teachers to the practical and pedagogical perspectives of becoming a teacher in the primary school context. Pre-service Teachers will engage in the culture of schools to gain an understanding of how schools and classrooms operate. This professional experience provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to observe and engage in classroom organisation, classroom management strategies, lesson planning and delivery, and student/teacher interactions. Primary Professional Experience 1 has a two-week (10 day) placement component.

Professional Experience 2: School-based Learning – TEAC2049

Students will have 20 days placement in schools. During these days students will work in partnership with classroom teachers to further develop and begin to put into practice their knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy. Students will observe classrooms, assist individuals and groups of students with their learning, and begin to teach lessons. By the end of the subject students will have taught lessons in all of the Key Learning Areas, assessed student learning and evaluated their own teaching.

Professional Experience 3 – TEAC3040

The subject is designed to enable students to have direct experience of teaching in schools, building towards a final professional experience. The Professional Experience stream integrates with the curriculum content and pedagogy delivered in other course subject. The rationale behind this Professional Experience subject is to give students the opportunity to synthesise and apply their knowledge and skills from all previous subjects. The subject has a four-week (20 day) placement component.

Professional Experience 4: Teaching in Country – TEAC3023

Students will be placed for 30 days in one of the partner local/regional/rural schools with a high Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student population. Students are required to develop skills related to effective planning, programming, evaluating and teaching in a teaching context, which will be assessed against the Graduate Teacher Standards and as part of their Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA). Students will experience how school and classroom curricula and policy are influenced by the nature of the school's community.