Developing Professional Practice (EDUC4615)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2025
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Education School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Lecture 1 Hour/ Week
Workshop 2 Hours/ Week
Incompatible
EDUC4710, EDUC6610
Prerequisite
EDUC3605 (or EDUC3099) and successful completion or concurrent enrolment in all Curriculum Studies courses. Students are required to hold a current Blue Card authorised by the School of Education.
Restricted
Restricted to students who are eligible to undertake Bachelor of Education (Secondary) dual program Professional Year
Assessment methods
Policies and Procedures for Professional Experience statement, Supervised Professional Experience,
Professional practice log and reflective essay, Personal Development Plan and reflective essay
Course enquiries
Ms Anna Sibthorpe (Semester 1, St Lucia, In person)
Work Integrated Learning
Industry Placements
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course description
Through a 30-day block of professional experience this course provides a further introduction to the practice of teaching and demonstrates the ongoing importance of creativity, initiative and personal autonomy in teaching. The professional experience provides opportunities for purposeful and insightful supervised experiences to develop preservice teachers' understandings of themselves as teachers, the students they will teach, the contexts in which they will teach and the teaching/learning process. Observation of practice will continue to provide preservice teachers with opportunities to critically reflect on and improve their own practice. Another feature of the course will be the ongoing practice in the design and implementation of units/lessons and assessment. This course is developmental and builds on EDUC3605, providing a basis for the subsequent course EDUC4625. The course will also incorporate and implement knowledge and skills developed across the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) dual degree program so far.
For Semester 1, 2025, the mid-semester break for this course will be relocated to university week 8.
- As this course contains a professional experience component in a school, students are required to have a valid Blue Card for the duration of the placement.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2020 (24/02/2020 - 11/07/2020) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2019 (25/02/2019 - 22/06/2019) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |