460-210 Internship B

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Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

Within the classroom

• demonstrate a strong understanding of content and the appropriate teaching methods and resources required for effective learning including the Curriculum Standards Frameworks and the VCE curricula if an intending secondary teacher;

• demonstrate the ability to independently plan and implement the ongoing program for their classes;

• monitor and evaluate their teaching and curriculum planning and demonstrate this reflection in action by redressing identified weaknesses and building upon identified strengths;

• demonstrate highly developed professional organisational skills;

• utilise effective communication skills;

• evaluate the learning progress of individuals within their class/classes, cater for specific needs and foster collaborative approaches to learning as well as independent learning; and

• effectively communicate their students' progress to the students and their parents or guardians, and contribute to the school's formal assessment and program evaluation processes.

Within the school

• work collaboratively with their mentors and other members of staff;

• contribute usefully to the life of the school by being involved with policy and management committees;

• utilise resources within and beyond the school to complement the curriculum; and

• work within the legal and ethical requirements of the teaching profession.

Within the community

• facilitate an open exchange of information between the school and community members;

• encourage meaningful involvement of parents and community members in the school's programs; and

• seek an understanding of the cultures, values and backgrounds of various groups in the community.

Content:

The student will assume professional duties within the classroom, school, and community, in collaboration with appropriately qualified mentors approved by the host school and the Faculty.

Sixty days will be spent in one school. Normally this will be the same school as for Internship A but not as for School Experience and Practice Teaching 3. The intern will attend their school for 4 days per week. Intending secondary teachers will have a teaching load of about 12 classes of an hour each per week. Intending primary teachers will have a teaching load equivalent to 60% (i.e. three days) of a normal teaching load over those four days. The remainder of the time will be spent in planning and evaluating their teaching and involvement in wider school activities under the guidance of school staff. Participation in school and University seminars with their peers is expected.

Several models of internship are possible and will be negotiated with the host schools:

• schools may elect to have a student share responsibility with a classroom teacher for one or more classes or sessions;

• schools may rotate students on a specialist basis.

Satisfactory completion of this subject denotes that the student is ready to take on the full responsibilities of a beginning teacher.

Assessment:

Prescribed Texts:

• Furlong VJ Hirst PH Pocklington K and Miles S, Initial Teacher Training and the Role of the School, Open University Philadelphia 1988.
• Dalton Joan, Individual Differences, Curriculum Branch Ministry of Education Melbourne 1986.
• MacDonald Robert, A Handbook of Basic Skills and Strategies for Beginning Teachers: Facing the Challenge of Teaching in Today's Schools, Longman New York 1991.