School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    School-based Professional Learning: Internship
  • Unit Code

    SPL6157
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Maria NORRIS

Description

Among the central features of the Master of Teaching course is the interplay between educational research, policy and practice, and the need for teachers to critically reflect on their practices and transform them as a consequence of this analysis. The central focus of this unit of study is on the design, implementation, and reporting of School-based Professional Learning (SPL). The SPL articulates the development of educational practice whilst on internship at a school. In addition to using research in context, students are expected to demonstrate current knowledge and proficiency in using appropriate ICT tools to engage and support student learning.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be a scholar in residence at the placement school for three days per week. There will be sessions scheduled at the University for their internship induction, and colloquium at the completion of their term at the placement school.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conduct an analysis of a specific educational environment to further understand the nature of schools as workplaces and their associated values, routines and cultures.
  2. Explore and analyse educational research, ideas and issues, and discuss and summarise findings in terms of impact on own teaching and learning practices.
  3. Prepare for and contribute to discussions about the teaching profession or subject/content.
  4. Use verbal, visual and other media to collect data, and analyse and report on the results using the style and protocols appropriate for academic writing.
  5. Analyse the nature, structure and organisation of schools and the work, roles and responsibilities of teachers through the completion of scholar in residence requiring them to professionally communicate and interact with staff, students and/or the broader school community.

Unit Content

  1. Design and development of an appropriate School based Professional Learning (SPL) experience.
  2. Implementation of the School based Professional Learning.
  3. The School based Professional Learning (SPL) and further professional development.
  4. The implications of the School based Professional Learning (SPL) for student learning and participation.
  5. Critical discussion of the School based Professional Learning (SPL).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Presentations may be complemented with some directed reading. Local, state, national and international conferences and seminars, as well as other professional learning activities through education systems, professional organisations and associations, can be used to demonstrate learning in this unit. A period of professional experience, feedback, reflection, and networking. Regular meetings held to assist in the processes required. All Pre-Service Teachers 18 years of age and over will be required to have a current Department of Education Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and a current Working with Children Check, or the equivalent clearance issued by the relevant State authority.

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
Literature ReviewProject context and literature review40%
PresentationPost Scholar-In-Residence Research Presentation60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewProject context and literature review40%
PresentationPost Scholar-In-Residence Research Presentation60%

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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