Primary Professional Experience 1: Planning for Teaching

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. review progression on developing evidence against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in a prepared digital professional portfolio
  2. construct lesson plans which reflect an understanding of how students learn through the effective use of challenging learning goals, a range of teaching strategies, and diverse resources including digital technologies
  3. prepare a plan for learning and teaching with consideration of theoretical studies, contextual factors, and student needs
  4. apply and evaluate effective planning techniques and a range of learning and teaching strategies, to meet the diverse needs of students
  5. use effective communication skills, maintain student safety and meet ethical, legislative, administrative and organisational requirements in primary school settings.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Curtin University

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-BED-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Education (Primary Education)

Elective

• CUR-FAST-DEG-2025 - Fast track your Curtin on campus study

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

one of

• CUR-EDC145-The Numerate Educator

• CUR-EDC141 (Not currently available)

and one of

• CUR-EDC163-The Professional Educator: Developing Teacher Identity

• CUR-EDC155 (Not currently available)

and one of

• CUR-EDC121-Introducing Language, Literacy and Literature for Educators

• CUR-EDC131 (Not currently available)

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).

Equivalent subjects

You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.

• CUR-EDP223 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

• Placement requirements - This subject includes a 2-week professional experience placement in a school. Placements are undertaken on a full-time basis in a continuous block.
• Other requirements - This subject is not available for students who are under the age of 16.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.