460-212 School Experience and Practice Teaching 3 (Strand 3)

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

School Experience & Practice Teaching 1; Learning Area (Primary) Language & Literacy.

Corequisites

Learning Area (Primary) Arts; Learning Area (Primary) Health and Physical Education; Learning Area (Primary) Science; Learning Area (Primary) Study of Society and Environment; Learning Area (Primary) Mathematics 3.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This intensive teaching experience will allow student teachers to take on greater responsibility for the learning and development of the school students through carefully planned and guided educational experiences. It is expected that planning will include identification and analysis of the community contexts of the education program of the school.

Students will spend a block of 15 days in one Primary school teaching with full teaching responsibility and will be expected to plan and implement extended units of work which demonstrate understanding of the Key Learning Areas and their integration into an effective curriculum learning experience. They must monitor the progress of students under their guidance and evaluate the effectiveness of the learning activities.

Student teachers will continue to maintain a School Experience file.

Assessment

15 days of supervised School Experience.

Prescribed Texts

• Balson M, Understanding Classroom Behaviour. (3rd ed) ACER Hawthorn 1992.
• Collis M and Dalton J, Becoming Responsible Learners: Strategies for Positive Classroom Management. Tasmanian Early Childhood Senior Staff Association Launceston Tasmania 1989.
• Dalton Joan, Adventures in Thinking: Creative Thinking and Cooperative Talk in Small Groups. Nelson Melbourne 1985.
• Heywood J, Pitfalls and planning in Student Teaching. Kogan Page London 1982.