School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Professional Experience 3: Secondary Specialisation
  • Unit Code

    PPA3300
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David RHODES

Description

This five-week Professional Experience unit is intended to provide Pre-Service Teachers with the opportunity to work with secondary school students over an extended period of time. During the Professional Experience, Pre-Service Teachers have the opportunity to work with mentor teachers and their classes, to learn and practice essential teaching skills and critically evaluate and reflect on their own experiences. Typically, Pre-Service Teachers will teach in years 7-10 in their chosen major subject area during this Professional Experience period. The five-week Professional Experience also provides Pre-Service Teachers with the opportunity to participate in some of the general duties undertaken by teachers, to learn more of the pastoral care system in the secondary school and implement the school's strategies for managing the behaviour of students. The unit provides the Pre-service Teacher with an opportunity to further consolidate the connection between theory and practice and build upon the experiences gained in the Professional Experience program.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan and implement effective teaching strategies and evaluate continuous and sustained teaching programs within a secondary education context.
  2. Create a consistently safe and supportive learning environment through effective classroom management strategies.
  3. Critique personal conduct in relation to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and the expectations within the secondary school context.
  4. Critically reflect on personal teaching performance and progress using the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in order to establish goals for future professional learning.

Unit Content

  1. Observation of the teaching and learning processes.
  2. Participation in class activities in collaboration with mentor teachers.
  3. Planning, teaching and evaluation of small and whole groups.
  4. Completion of structured self-evaluations.

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.

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Practicum ^Professional Experience100%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Practicum ^Professional Experience 100%

^ 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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