Course Title: Professional Experience: Alternate Method Curriculum A

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience: Alternate Method Curriculum A

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
TCHE2650	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: Tasos Barkatsas

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7423

Course Coordinator Email: tasos.barkatsas@rmit.edu.au@rmit.edu.auu

Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

This course focuses on teaching the theoretical and practical aspects of your alternate teaching method in secondary schools. You will be introduced to curriculum frameworks and appropriate methodologies in your teaching. This course will focus on the planning of classroom and curriculum materials.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a school environment and where feedback from supervising staff and mentors are integral to the learning experience.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes: 

• Consolidate and synthesise expert content and pedagogical content knowledge and apply evidence-based high-impact teaching and coaching strategies in professional practice.
• Analyse and evaluate student-centred learning approaches to plan effectively for differentiation in Health, Physical Education and Sport
• Apply initiative, curiosity, creativity, judgement, critical thinking and problem solving skills and demonstrate the capacity to work responsibly, both individually and collaboratively, to address challenges in local and global contexts 

 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

	AITSL Standards
1. Critically reflect on your previous experiences in coaching and/or higher education to identify an area of potential interest for engaging in professional learning through a service learning or coaching project.	6.1, 6.3, 6.4
2. Design a service learning project relevant to your professional learning needs and coaching context.	3.2, 3.3, 4.1
3. Make informed and justified decisions that enable you to implement and evaluate your service learning project.	4.4, 6.2
4.Professionally communicate your project clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences.	7.4

 

Overview of Learning Activities

NA

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT University will support your access to learning resources for this course. Readings from current educational literature will be provided through your online course site and will be drawn from highly regarded academic journals, books and conferences as well as reports, websites and other online resources.

The University Library provides extensive scholarly resources to supplement your suggested readings and research and is able to request books or articles from any library in the world. Guides to the literature in your discipline area are available from http://rmit.libguides.com/sb.php?subject_id=67929

Assistance with referencing and avoiding plagiarism is available here http://www1.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing

The Library and the Study and Learning Centre are also on hand to support and assist in the development of your academic skills to make best use of such resources within your academic studies. http://www1.rmit.edu.au/library.

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. Assessment will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of your learning. You will be able to develop your work in relation to your own specific areas of interest in your professional practice.

Assessment task (%)	CLO	AITSL Standards
Writing Assessment – Planning, content resources (30%)	1, 2, 3	2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Peer teaching assessment- alternate method (20%)	1, 2, 3	2.1, 2.2, 2.3
In-depth unit planning and assessment (50%)	1, 2, 3, 4	2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2

Assessment in this course is directly connected to your successful participation in professional experience. The end-of-placement report from your supervising teacher(s) on your professional development and participation in professional experience is an important component of your assessment. It will provide evidence of your ability to demonstrate the relevant professional practices and course learning outcomes specifically associated with the assessment tasks in the course.

In order to pass this course, you are required to receive a satisfactory assessment on your professional experience, in accordance with expectations outlined in the PX Handbook for the course. If you fail to meet this requirement, for reasons other than those approved by special considerations, you will not pass the course. If granted Special Consideration, you may become eligible to complete an alternative professional experience to pass the course.

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program manager or the Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online: http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment.