460-203 School Experience & Practice Teaching 2T

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

School Experience & Practice Teaching 1T

Corequisites

37.5 points of learning area studies (primary) if enrolled in primary teaching strand.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This 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 20 days in one primary or secondary school teaching under supervision and will be expected to plan and implement extended units of work as part of the intensive teaching experience.

Assessment

20 days of supervised school experience.

Prescribed Texts

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