Course overview
This course will support preservice teachers as reflective practitioners to consolidate and apply their research and professional knowledge, understandings and skills as early childhood preservice teachers within the Junior Primary classroom context. Preservice teachers will attend on campus workshops and undertake supervised placements in a junior primary setting where they will apply their skills developed throughout their program to demonstrate that they meet the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at a Graduate level in an inquiry-based curriculum. preservice teachers will focus on the role of the early childhood educator in a junior primary context; the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum in planning, assessing and reporting; play-based learning across the curriculum for the early years of school; understanding the importance of appropriate, timely and constructive feedback; student and teacher self-efficacy; beliefs informing practice and social justice implications; teacher wellbeing; legal and ethical responsibilities of teachers; career development and critically analysing and presenting data on professional practice.
Course learning outcomes
- Apply a professional inquiry framework to critically appraise performance as a graduate teacher
- Manage effective professional relationships with children/students, parents/caregivers and staff
- Explain the relationship of the Early Years Learning Framework with the Australian Curriculum and the importance of using professional judgment and pedagogical repertoire to flexibly apply the principles and practices of early childhood teaching in the EYLF to the early years of school
- Display a coherent and consistently professional identity which embodies the professional and ethical standards expected of a graduate teacher
- Design professional learning and career development plans which address areas for development and support to sustain the transition into the profession