Preparing for the Profession

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• What you'll learn

  Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:

  1. Collect, interpret and use a variety of student data and evidence for diagnostic, formative and summative purposes to establish students’ current level of performance, desired level of performance, and readiness for learning. Use the official curriculum and other relevant materials to plan connected teaching and learning sequences while identifying opportunities for explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy in the curriculum.
  2. Employ a range of suitably challenging and engaging teaching and learning strategies that connect to and build on students’ prior learning while providing differentiated teaching and learning opportunities. Teach general capabilities, including literacy and numeracy, required for student success in learning while making suitable adjustments to teaching based on ongoing student data gathering and analysis.
  3. Select and use a variety of assessment tools and practices, addressing fitness for purpose and principles of inclusion. Provide feedback to learners to inform student self-assessment, goal setting, and to progress learning. Make judgements of the quality of student work with reference to curriculum and achievement standards independently and through moderation practices.
  4. Describe and analyse the scope and sufficiency of initial and ongoing data choices for identifying students’ learning needs and informing next-step teaching. Identify and describe differences between planned and enacted teaching, and related pedagogical reasoning. Discuss how evidence of learning is used to monitor student progress and to modify teaching and assessment strategies while identifying and justifying future teaching and assessment practices in relation to relevant theory.
  5. Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching through demonstrated impact on student learning and to examine and discuss how teaching decisions were effective or not effective in progressing student learning and why.

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Entry requirements

Part of a degree

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

Core

• TAS-EDC-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary)

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:

• TAS-EMT614-Professional Experience 3 (Primary)

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:

• TAS-EMT518-Professional Experience 2 (Primary)

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).

Others

Conditional requisite: 150 credit points in the Master of Teaching (TAS-EDC-MAS) and TAS-EMT518.

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: This subject will be offered in the online mode in semester 1, and in both face-face and online modes in semester 2 of each year. This subject incorporates the period after the semester where you will then be attending your final Professional Experience placement in a school or care site. Synchronous evening webinars are negotiated with students to accommodate Professional Experience and school hours. The subject presents a number of self-paced modules with engagement expected in discussion boards and with tutors.

Study load

0.0625 EFTSL

This is in the range of 5 to 6 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.