Unit EDMAS6228 - Engaging Professionally 3 | Federation University Handbook

Unit description

This unit is the third in a suite of units designed to enable pre-service teachers (PSTs) to critically attend to, participate in and experience, the many facets of professional engagement in teaching. PSTs create and experience a professional learning community where learning is enhanced through social processes, dialogue and personal reﬂection. PSTs will critically examine teaching and learning experiences in professional placement settings and make connections to prior learning. They will focus on bigger picture issues such as the emotional work of teachers, the changing culture of schooling and school improvement issues as well as their own personal questions, investigations and insights.This unit supports PSTs professional experience in the Master of Teaching course in which PSTs complete 35 days in an education setting. Students are required to complete the activities outlined in Professional Experience Guidelines. This will take place in collaboration with their school-based Mentor Teacher in the education setting in which the placement occurs (as indicated below). The students will also demonstrate their professional learning through completion of the Assessment for Graduate Teachers, supported by their assigned University Mentor.

Unit content

• Developing teaching and learning goals based on the Graduate Teacher Standards and previous placement, through a focus on planning, teaching, assessment processes, enhancing students’ learning and continued professional development.• Engaging in critical inquiries into practice and educational change and the tools to assist the interpretation of data, critical reﬂection on practice, and decision-making.• Identifying, through experience and reading, the characteristics of eﬀective professional learning, professional feedback, and ongoing self-assessment.• Examining the emotional work of teachers in the context of the professional placement.• Preparing to apply for teaching positions and receiving feedback from school principals.• Re-examining the role that feedback plays in teaching and learning and designing tools for gathering feedback from students.• Articulating personal theories and philosophies related to teaching and learning.

Institute / school:

Institute of Education, Arts & Community

Discipline:

Education

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.25

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

260

Fee information:

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Corequisite

Exclusion

Learning outcomes

Ref	Outcome
K1
K2
K3
K4
K5
K6
K7
K8
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
A1
A2

Ref	Learning task	Assessment type	Weighting	Learning outcomes assessed
1
2
3

Supplementary assessment available:

FedTASK

Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.

FedTASK	Description of FedTASK outcome
	Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams
	Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations
	Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning
	Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities
	Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life

Institute / school:

Institute of Education, Arts & Community

Discipline:

Education

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.25

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

260

Fee information:

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Internal reference: EDMAS6228 - U4.0

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