476-215 School Experience 2

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On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate a further knowledge of the school as a social and cultural institution within broader societal and cultural contexts;

• implement language, mathematics, arts, physical education and health curricula and demonstrate some understanding of implementing other aspects of the curriculum;

• demonstrate improved personal skills in working with children in increasingly large groups and in carrying out more complex teaching assignments; and

• demonstrate an understanding of the capacities, responses and needs of individual children and the ability to cater for these in planning teaching assignments.

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Through direct experience, the subject provides for understanding of: the overall functioning of primary schools, capacities and responses of individual children in school settings; specific characteristics of a school's operations at the end of a school year and development of teaching skills to effectively implement planned programs for a whole day across key learning areas.

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