Course Title: Professional Experience: Teaching in Diverse Educational Settings (Non-School Settings)

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience: Teaching in Diverse Educational Settings (Non-School Settings)

Credit Points: 12.00

Course Coordinator: David Armstrong

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 9728

Course Coordinator Email: David.armstrong@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 TCHE2658 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education and TCHE2625 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education.  

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. 

Complete the suite of pre-placement requirements (child-safe standards module, mandatory reporting, WWC check, WIL agreement, WIL ready module). 

Course Description

This course will challenge you to think about and experience educational settings in a way that extends the knowledge, understandings and skills developed through your chosen minor sequence. You will explore the common issues affecting this diverse sector as well as the unique features of the provisions in non-school settings. In particular, emphasis will be given to educational inclusion and the ways that non-school settings can support students to thrive outside of the mainstream education system. In completing this course, you will have a sound understanding of the concepts of educational disengagement and marginalisation. 

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) professional experience (PX) in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience. This PX is 15 days. 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following BP320P24 Bachelor of Education (Primary) and BP320PEC24 Bachelor of Education (Primary and Early Childhood Education) Program Learning Outcomes: 

PLO2 Enhance student learning and wellbeing by adopting practices that support sustainable futures and principles of inclusion.  

PLO3 Support students to develop the skills needed to become collaborative, problem-solving, creative learners with agency, and innovative and engaged members of society. 

PLO7 Engage with school communities and professional networks and communicate with diverse stakeholders in a range of contexts. 

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

		Graduate APST
1	Identify the breadth of non-school educational settings across Australia students enrol on a one-off, short-, medium-, or long-term basis	1.1, 1.2, 1.3
2	Articulate a teacher’s responsibilities within the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, as well as federal and jurisdictional educational policies and legislation, when working in a range of non-school educational settings	7.1, 7.2
3	Investigate the enrolment, environmental, and educational procedures and policies of an existing non-school educational setting in the broadest sense	1.1, 1.3, 7.2
4	Critically reflect on planned and incidental teaching in a range of non-school educational settings	3.6
5	Understand the legal and/or clinical definitions affecting those who attend a range of non-school educational settings, e.g., ‘disability’, ‘mental health condition’ and the impacts of these disadvantages on student learning.	7.1, 7.2

Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as workshops, tutorials, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Teaching and learning may be face to face, online, or a combination of both. 

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal. 

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes (CLO) and on your development against the program learning outcomes. The assessment is also mapped against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST).  

Assessment Tasks 

	Title	Weighting	CLOs	APSTs
AT 1	Diverse Teaching Opportunities	50%	1, 3, 4	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.6, 7.2
AT 2	Reflecting on Student Learning	50%	1, 2, 5	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 7.1, 7.2

 

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 Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.