TEPP221-14T3 (D) Term Three 2014 (Distance)

Professional Practice: Organising for Learning

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 1 September 2014
End Date: Sunday, 28 September 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): the Friday prior to the placement commencing
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): available only through a special consideration application for late discontinuation.

Description

This course is designed to deliver through practical application and first-hand experience in classrooms, the necessary curriculum and pedagogical content required of primary teachers. These experiences enable the student, his/her lecturers and associate teacher to systematically evaluate his/her developing knowledge and skill, identify emergent needs, and to record the student's progress in achieving course learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

  • On the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
  • Use the design process to observe, plan for, implement, access, and evaluate whole class teaching, including the unit of work approach, in at least four learning areas.
  • Observe, plan for, implement, assess and evaluate children’s learning in the curriculum areas of English and Mathematics.
  • Develop constructive and effective contextually appropriate professional relationships with colleagues, parents and pupils.
  • Assume full management of the learning of a whole class for at least six consecutive days.
  • Use critical reflection skills to assess current and future professional needs and development, including effective Te Reo me ōna tikanga.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

TEPP211

Contact Person

Lynda Boyd

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

Professional Practice Folder containing all PP documentation: observations, planning, assessment, evaluation, work samples, reflection and associate teacher assessment. Students are expected to document evidence of having worked towards teaching in all essential learning areas of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) and have met the specified learning outcomes of the course through the following assessed tasks.

There are three assessed tasks:
• Professional Practice folder and professional documentation set out according to give guidelines (LOs 1,2,3,4.5)
• Professional Practice task which uses the design process to observe, plan for, implement, assess and evaluate a series of lessons, including the unit of work approach, in at least four essential learning areas (LOs 1,2,)
• Full management of the learning of a whole class for at least three consecutive days. (LO2 3,4)

As this is a professional degree a passing grade will be required for each of the above tasks.

Attendance

Students will be expected to conduct at least one pre-placement visit at their allocated school.
Full attendance in school for the duration of the practicum, from at least 8.00am - 4.00pm each day, is a requirement.
Students will attend a debriefing interview with their PP lecturer after the placement concludes. This interview wil be conducted at a University of Canterbury campus or via flexible delivery mechanisms.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $670.00

International fee $2,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Teacher Education .

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