School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Early Childhood Internship
  • Unit Code

    EDU4500
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    60
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Beverly Joy ADKIN

Description

The internship equips pre-service teachers with the mastery and knowledge to lead their own classrooms. Pre-service teachers are placed in either classrooms or early learning settings where they will fulfil a diversity of roles, tasks and duties to provide a well-rounded experience of working as a teacher. Mentoring and support is provided by both the University and the internship setting to facilitate the best possible start to their teaching careers. The internship is a full-time role following the successful completion of ATP. It includes working at a school or early learning setting during term three for four days per week and one day per week either at the school completing leadership modules, specific projects or attending university and off site meetings. Enrolment into this unit is by application ONLY.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to attend the school or early learning setting for 4 days per week (up to 8 hours each day) during term 3.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply their acquired knowledge, skills and practices to enhance children’s learning and positively contribute to the learning environment of the school or early learning setting.
  2. Identify personal strengths and weaknesses through reflective practice and develop strategies for professional development.
  3. Investigate the roles and responsibilities of leaders in early childhood settings.
  4. Completing an ePortfolio that is drawn from professional knowledge with links to required graduate outcomes.
  5. Investigate issues that impact on graduate teachers’ transition to the workforce.

Unit Content

  1. Applying a strong working knowledge of educational settings, culture and overarching policies to positively shape educational practices.
  2. Engaging in reflective practice.
  3. Effective early childhood leaders and their roles and responsibilities.
  4. Professional ePortfolio.
  5. Professional identity, advocacy and ethical commitments.

Learning Experience

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

A period of professional experience, supervisory visits, feedback, networking and on-line support.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective Practice ^Development of an ePortfolio100%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective Practice ^Development of an ePortfolio100%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Early Childhood Internship
  • Unit Code

    EDU4500
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    60
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Beverly Joy ADKIN

Description

The internship equips pre-service teachers with the mastery and knowledge to lead their own classrooms. Pre-service teachers are placed in either classrooms or early learning settings where they will fulfil a diversity of roles, tasks and duties to provide a well-rounded experience of working as a teacher. Mentoring and support is provided by both the University and the internship setting to facilitate the best possible start to their teaching careers. The internship is a full-time role following the successful completion of ATP. It includes working at a school or early learning setting during term three for four days per week and one day per week either at the school completing leadership modules, specific projects or attending university and off site meetings. Enrolment into this unit is by application ONLY.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to attend the school or early learning setting for 4 days per week (up to 8 hours each day) during term 3.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply their acquired knowledge, skills and practices to enhance children’s learning and positively contribute to the learning environment of the school or early learning setting.
  2. Identify personal strengths and weaknesses through reflective practice and develop strategies for professional development.
  3. Investigate the roles and responsibilities of leaders in early childhood settings.
  4. Completing an ePortfolio that is drawn from professional knowledge with links to required graduate outcomes.
  5. Investigate issues that impact on graduate teachers’ transition to the workforce.

Unit Content

  1. Applying a strong working knowledge of educational settings, culture and overarching policies to positively shape educational practices.
  2. Engaging in reflective practice.
  3. Effective early childhood leaders and their roles and responsibilities.
  4. Professional ePortfolio.
  5. Professional identity, advocacy and ethical commitments.

Learning Experience

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

A period of professional experience, supervisory visits, feedback, networking and on-line support.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective Practice ^Development of an ePortfolio100%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective Practice ^Development of an ePortfolio100%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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