Course Title: Professional Experience: Alternate Method Curriculum B

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience: Alternate Method Curriculum B

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

TCHE2651

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

360H Education

Face-to-Face

Sem 2 2020,
Sem 2 2021,
Sem 2 2022,
Sem 2 2023

Course Coordinator: Tasos Barkatsas

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7423

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

Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses
Successful completion of  TCHE2650 Professional Experience: Alternate Method Curriculum A

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course. 

For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage. 


Course Description

This course builds upon the foundations of curriculum planning and classroom pedagogies from TCHE2650 Professional Experience: Alernate Method Curriculum A. The course aims to extend your knowledge and skills to plan, teach, assess, evaluate and report on student learning based on your selected alternate teaching method. You will also learn to apply literacy and numeracy teaching strategies to complement your alternate teaching method. The role and implementation of Information Communication technology (ICT) to expand curriculum learning opportunities will also be explored.

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

Program Learning Outcomes

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 strategies in professional practice
  • Create a safe and engaging learning environment using inclusive strategies, sustainable practices and digital technologies for diverse audiences
  • Analyse assessment outcomes to evaluate the impact on student learning and inform future teaching strategies
  • Communicate effectively with different stakeholders in diverse educational contexts through a range of communication modes and digital technologies

 




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

 

AITSL Standards

1. Demonstrate competency in using literacy and numeracy teaching strategies in your selected alternate teaching method.

2.5

2. Integrate ICT into your teaching and expand curriculum learning opportunities for students

2.6

3. Demonstrate an understanding of assessment methodologies and use the data to critically reflect on learning and teaching practices.

5.1, 5.2, 5.4

4. Use a range of strategies to report on learning outcomes of students to stakeholders and understand the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement.

 

5.5

5. Demonstrate effective skills in communicating and collaborating in professional contexts

 


Overview of Learning Activities

Your learning in this course will involve a range of face-to-face and online activities including lectures, workshops, practical activities, readings, collaborative group work, class discussion and individual reflection.

Your learning in this course will also involve professional experience in an educational classroom setting.


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

Integrated program – Integrating literacy, numeracy and ICT with the Victorian Curriculum to design a sequence of work (40%)

1, 2

2.5, 2.6

Writing Assessment and rubric design- Analysis of different modes of assessment (Group, 40%)

2, 3, 5

2.6, 5.1,

Reporting strategies: Accurate and reliable records of student achievement (20%)

3, 4

5.2, 5.4, 5.5

 

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. Due to safety and professional accreditation requirements students must satisfactorily complete all practical sessions. 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 alternative professional experience and/or practical activity 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 coordinator 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