Course Title: Professional Experience: Teaching performance assessment

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience: Teaching performance assessment

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
TCHE2438	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2017, Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018
TCHE2438	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	360H Education	Workplace	Sem 2 2016
TCHE2608	City Campus	Postgraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2019, Sem 2 2020, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
TCHE2608	City Campus	Postgraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	PGRDFx2020 (EDFT), PGRDFx2020 (All)
TCHE2608	City Campus	Postgraduate	360H Education	Face-to-Face	PGRDFlex24 (XXX), PGRDFlex24 (ACC), PGRDFlex24 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr Thembi Mason

Course Coordinator Phone: thembi.mason@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Email: thembi.mason@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: City

Course Coordinator Availability: Email for an appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses 

Successful completion of TCHE2668 The Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students AND TCHE2672 The Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students AND TCHE2675 Professional Experience: Teaching in Curriculum Specialisations. 

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) and on campus workshop briefing sessions. 

Course Description

This course is the culmination of a sequence of professional experience (work integrated learning) courses designed to develop your knowledge and skills to teach in educational settings. It has an embedded placement component in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience. 

In this capstone course, you will draw on learning from courses across the program and from professional experiences in schools/ educational settings. You will learn, practice and then be assessed on your capacity to complete a teaching and learning cycle in a school/ educational setting and to demonstrate your work-readiness by submitting a Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) task. 

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) professional experience (PX) in which your teaching 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. The PX associated with the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment is 20 days. 

 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes 

This course contributes to the following program learning outcomes:  

PLO1 Apply educational professional practise in diverse contexts while actively contributing to a more sustainable world and engaging with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and globally inclusive perspectives.   

PLO2 Create learning environments that articulate a broad and holistic understanding of the needs of learners and society based on evidence-informed practices and theoretical perspectives. 

PLO3 Critically analyse relevant evidence-based disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and experience to plan, implement and assess student learning, social and intellectual development. 

PLO4 Apply professional knowledge, self-awareness, judgment and research skills to develop agile education solutions and make evidence-based decisions for application in specific teaching environments. 

PLO5 Establish meaningful networks with professional, peer, government, industry, and/or community groups collaborating with diverse, interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues.   

PLO6 Transform learning and teaching contexts with the use of digital skills, tools and emerging educational technologies.   

Course Learning Outcomes 

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

		Graduate APST
1.	Consolidate knowledge of the characteristics of learners.	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5
2.	Consolidate pedagogical content knowledge to create inclusive and productive learning environments.	2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2
3.	Design and implement relevant curriculum and pedagogy, integrating literacy and/or numeracy and differentiating teaching to engage students in their learning.	1.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
4.	Use data ethically to plan, implement, assess and evaluate a teaching and learning cycle.	5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
5.	Engage with colleagues, the broader community and educational theory to reflect on and improve student learning and professional teaching practice.	3.5, 3.6, 6.4, 7.1

 

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. 

Suggested readings from current educational literature will be provided on the course website and will be drawn from highly regarded academic journals, books and conferences as well as reports, websites and other online resources.   

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	Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment	100%	All	All standards relevant to the context
AT 2	School Mentor Placement Report	Pass/Fail	All	All standards relevant to the context

 

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.