Course Title: Professional Experience: Graduate Futures

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience: Graduate Futures

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

Course Coordinator: Alison Lugg

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 99257803

Course Coordinator Email: alison.lugg@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 220.03.38

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

TCHE2625 The Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education TCHE2658 The Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education

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.

 

You must successfully complete both the 20-day placement (assessed by the mentor) and the GTPA task (assessed by academic university staff) in order to pass this course and the program.

 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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

Course Learning Outcomes		Graduate Teacher  Standards
1	Consolidate knowledge of the characteristics of learners.	1.2-1.6
2	Consolidate pedagogical content knowledge to create inclusive and productive learning environments...	2.1-2.6 3.1-3.7 4.1-4.5
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- 3.5
4	Use data ethically to plan, implement, assess and evaluate a teaching and learning cycle.	5.1-5.5 7.1, 7.2
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 6.1-6.4 7.3, 7.4

 

 

Overview of Learning Activities

This course is one 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.

 

The critical assessment task is the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) Task which is designed to determine your readiness to teach at a graduate standard. This GTPA task will be conducted within the school/ educational setting during the placement and is assessed by academic staff at the university. The GTPA assessment task is organised in two parts that

 

You must satisfactorily complete this task to pass the course and graduate from the program.

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

 

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. The University Library has extensive resources for teacher education students. The Library has produced a number of subject guides that includes quality online and print resources for your studies. The Library provides guides on academic referencing http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/referencing and subject specialist help via your Liaison Librarians

Overview of Assessment

There is ONE assessment task and one WIL task:

Title, Words, Weighting	Assessment of Course Learning Outcomes	Assessment of Graduate Teacher Standards
Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment, 100%	All	All standards relevant to the context
School Mentor Placement Report Pass/ Fail	All	All standards where relevant to the context

The GTPA assessment task is a standardised assessment task that has been validated by AITSL as meeting the requirements of the national Initial Teacher Education program standards. The completed tasks will be moderated by a minimum of two university staff and selected samples will be further moderated for comparability and reliability by staff at other Australian universities.  Feedback will be provided on this assessment task.

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.

An assessment charter (http://mams.rmit.edu.au/kh6a3ly2wi2h1.pdf) summarizes your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced in a single document: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ln1kd66y87rc