School of Education
Faculty of Arts
The University of Adelaide
Level 8.22, Nexus 10 Tower
Adelaide SA 5005
T: +61 (0)8 831 36824
E: brendan.bentley@adelaide.edu.au
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Pre-placement workshops: Pre-service teachers are required to attend 6 x 3-hour pre-placement compulsory workshops. Attendance at the pre-placement  workshops are compulsory requiring registration and interaction through active online participation. Attendance at these workshops is a hurdle assessment for attending Professional Experience A placement and will be scheduled during week 1-6 of term 1.

1. Understand, and account for in planning, the diversity for student cohorts and how they learn.

2. Understand and apply the teaching methodologies of their curriculum area(s).

3. Plan for and implement effective and appropriate learning activities.

4.Create supportive and safe learning environments, including the initial development of a repertoire of effective and ethical behaviour
management strategies.

5. Understand assessment and reporting processes, including the provision of feedback to students and other
stakeholders about their learning.

6. Engage with other professional educators such as Curriculum area associations.

7.Create and maintain professional relationships with teacher-colleagues and school leaders as well as the wider school community.

All readings will be provided during lectures and seminars. Pre-service teachers are requried to download and have available a copy the School of Education's 2022 Professional Experience Handbook.

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST).

This course requires face to face engagement and is not presented online.

This course is conducted face to face in a lecture/seminar format requiring engagement at each session.

6 x 3-hour lecture/seminar and a 45 day Professional Experience placement.

The lectures and seminars provide the theoretical learning required to successfully complete the first of the final year of Professional Experience placements. Pre-service teachers will meet prospective employers, undertake Elements 1 and 4 of the Teaching Performance Assessment and complete preparatory activities for placement. Attendance at all sessions is required.

Pre-service teachers will be required to have:
Responding to Risk of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education and Care (RRHAN-EC)
Working with Children Check (WWCC)
COVID-19 Vaccination and
Complete Elements 1 and 4 of the Assessment for Graduate Teaching (AfGT).

The successful completion of this Professional Experience course includes completing the Professional Experience placement successfully and completing Elements 1 and 4 of the Assessment for Graduate Teaching (AfGT) which in part constitutes, the necessary capstone requirements for your teaching degree and is considered a hurdle requirement.

Element 1:
Word Count: Approx. 750 words.     
Procedural Steps
1. Plan a sequence of lessons (unit of work) to be taught on your final placement
2. Complete AfGT Table 1
3. Submit Table 1 and any supplementary or accompanying learning and assessment materials for your sequence of lessons/unit of work. 
Detailed Steps: Following the steps below (a – f), outline a sequence of no fewer than 5 and no more than 8 lessons that will be taught during your final placement:a) Identify the overarching goal for the sequence of lessons;b) Design a cumulative sequence of lesson goals that aligns with the overarching goal;c) Design sequenced lesson content (including curriculum links). The links to the curriculum documents should enable a reader to locate the same document to which you are referring;d) Justify the teaching strategies selected to challenge diverse learners to achieve the lesson goals; e) Justify complementary resources, including Information and Communications Technology (ICT), to engage all students in their learning; and, f) Explain strategies to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of resources (including ICTs). To support the latter half of this assignment, also consider the following: Synthesise mentor feedback to support the planned learning sequence.Explain your assessment plan (6a – 6c), which includes formative, diagnostic and summative assessment, opportunities for timely feedback, and assessment moderation: a) Explain a comprehensive assessment plan to monitor student achievement;b) Explain how you will make opportunities for purposeful and timely feedback; c) Explain how you will incorporate assessment moderation processes.

Context: This assignment will demonstrate the Pre-Service Teacher’s ability to draw on their professional knowledge and skills, as well as their understanding of the context, to plan a learning sequence and associated assessment tasks, address outcomes and students’ needs and abilities. In this Element, the focus is on the pre-service teacher’s capacity to understand the context of their placement and their planning for student learning in relation to the specific goal/s of the sequence of lessons, and the ways in which they will judge their impact on student learning. PSTs must pass Element 1 to demonstrate that the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL, 2018) are met at Graduate level. Assessed APSTs1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 6.3.

Element 4
Word Count: Approx. 600 words.            
Procedural Steps: 1. Receive link from AfGT. Follow the prompts to commence the activity. 3. Respond to each scenario by selecting your answer and submitting a written response. 4. Save and submit your work. 
 
Detailed Steps: 1. You will work through four different scenarios provided via a link to an online survey that will be sent to you; 2. Please only click the link when you are ready to begin (after you first click the link, it will automatically submit after 24 hours);3. Select your institution and insert your student number as prompted;4. Read the scenario carefully;5. Choose one of the options, A to D, for each scenario and then justify your decision. (Your responses can be in either bullet points or prose. The indicative word count for each justification is between 100 and 150 words);6. Save your work by clicking the ‘Next’ button and follow the prompts to submit your responses; 7. Once all four questions are completed, a confirmation email message will be sent to your student email address.
 
Context: Links to a URL will be provided to the Pre-Service Teacher, who will respond to the questions that follow the
online scenarios of teaching and learning.In Element 4 of the AfGT, which is the AfGT component that will be completed online, you will be provided with a link to an online survey tool known as Qualtrics. When you open it, you will see that you have four scenarios (or situations) that educators may face during their teaching career. Each will be accompanied by a list of four options (A to D) and a prompt that requires you to make a judgement about the scenario or situation. The wording of the prompt is: “Which option would you choose? Justify your decision. (100 to 150 words)”. An assessment rubric will accompany each scenario.
 
APSTs Assessed: 1.4, 1.6, 2.4 and 4.3.