460-209 Internship A (Strand 2 Only)

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Two Learning Area (Secondary) 1 subjects, Teachers, Inquiry and Learning 2 and an Honours grade in School Experience and Practice Teaching 1.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

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

A minimum of sixty days will be spent in one school. The intern will attend their school for 4 days per week with a teaching load of, and independent responsibility for, about 12 classes of an hour each. 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;
• schools may rotate students on a specialist basis.

Assessment

The internship agreement, and additional assessment tasks totalling not more than 3000 words, or equivalent.

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.