Professional Practice 1

Description

This first teaching practice experience provides opportunities for students to enact their learning about teaching and demonstrate professional skills, knowledge, and dispositions in early childhood settings. Practice experience is focused on: developing beginning levels of practical competence in understanding and responding to learners, design for learning, establishing a learning-focused culture, fostering professional relationships, enacting principles relating to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and engaging in professional learning. Students are given the opportunity to observe and engage in planning and assessment within the centre programme. The practice experiences contribute to the examination of practice-related challenges and assignment requirements across the programme. Kaiarahi | Associate Teachers assist Pukenga Taitiara | Professional Practice Lecturers from the Faculty to assess students' developing competence as a teacher.