Short Description: | Think & Act Like A Teacher 2 |
Units : | 1 |
Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
School or Department : | School of Education |
Student contribution band : | National Priority - Teaching |
ASCED code : | 070100 - Teacher Education |
Grading basis : | Graded |
Requisites
Pre-requisite: EPP1100 or EDC1300 and Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BEDU (Primary) or BEDU (Primary + Special Education) or BEDU (Special Education) or BEDU (HPE Primary) or BEDU (SHPE Primary) or BPED
Other requisites
One teaching area course must be completed prior to or in conjunction with this course.
Students must be available for a prescribed period of time to undertake a placement in a school or other approved site as required in this course.
Before commencing this course students will be assumed to have read the full details of Professional Experience particulars and familiarised themselves with the requirements. Please see the Education Placement Professional Experience website and the Professional Experience Book for full details.
State law in Queensland (Australia) requires that all adults working/undertaking professional experience/researching with children under the age of 18, in the state of Queensland must hold a valid blue card OR exemption card .
If undertaking placement outside of Queensland you must ensure that all relevant checks are completed and evidence of this is provided to the Professional Experience office .
Provided a blue card renewal application has been submitted at least 30 days before expiry of the current card, the blue card will remain active while the renewal application is processed (details available at .
Blue Card Services cannot process a form dated more than 16 weeks prior to lodgement. In addition, a representative of USQ or a Justice of the Peace, must sight the applicant鈥檚 identification documents and check the information on the form, before signing and dating the USQ declaration (refer to .
Where a student is denied approval for a blue card, enrolment in any initial teacher education program will be withdrawn (refer to .
If undertaking Professional Experience outside of Queensland, students are advised to check the Working with Children requirements of the state within which Professional Experience will be undertaken (refer to .
Synopsis
This first year second semester course provides the opportunity for pre-service teachers to attend contexts and apply the micro-skills of teaching within a scaffolded process using mentor teachers and pedagogical content from coursework. Learners will plan and teach utilising elements of a Gradual Release of Responsibility model. They will develop competencies in effective questioning, facilitating group learning and using student performance to identify foci for future planning and teaching. Coursework focuses on the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) and includes a 5-day professional experience attended in a block.
For full details of the professional experience particulars, please refer to the Professional Experience website and the Professional Experience Book.
Course offers
Semester | Mode | Campus |
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Semester 1, 2020 | External | |
Semester 2, 2020 | External | |
Semester 2, 2020 | On-campus | Springfield |
Semester 2, 2020 | On-campus | Toowoomba |