Units
Primary Field Studies 1: Development and Learning in the Field
Unit code: EDB021
Contact hours: 3 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
Designated Unit.
This unit focuses on students' professional development as an educator, and reinforces the twin themes of teacher as researcher, and teacher as reflective practitioner. It provides the first set of teaching experiences, in a graduated sequence over the course of the BEd. Students develop the ability to plan, implement and evaluate effective teaching/learning programs. This requires an understanding of learner needs, curriculum knowledge, procedures for creating supportive classroom environments, and sensitivity to socio-cultural contexts.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 1 | Yes |
| 2013 Semester 2 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
Field Experience is central to your preparation for the profession, and all Field Experience units are designated units i.e. students who do not achieve a grade of Satisfactory will have their progress in the course reviewed. Failure to pass a designated unit may result in exclusion from the course. This unit is your first formal supervised experience in the field, and is positioned early in your course, to enable you to bring some theoretical understandings to your initial observations and experiences in the field. In this unit, you will focus on developing skills for: building positive relationships, management of self and others, observation, and reflection. Field Experience units are designed in a graduated sequence, culminating in an internship in your final year. In this first unit, you begin to practice teaching strategies, and are scaffolded through the on campus component and your experience in a school setting.
Designated Unit
This is a designated unit. Designated units are field experience units deemed to be critical to progress in your course. At the end of each semester, if you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit you may be eligible for a period of probation or exclusion.
Aims
The aim of this unit is to provide you the opportunity to make links between theory and practice, and apply your beginning understandings about teaching and learning, through opportunities to observe, reflect, and plan and manage learning experiences in school settings.
Objectives
On completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1. Display a positive orientation to personal learning and teaching which promotes reflection on practice; and leads towards increasingly ethical and socially just professional practices; [QCT Standards 1 & 10]
2. Manage learning environments that are educationally productive for diverse sets of students and their learning needs; [QCT Standards 1 & 7]
3. Demonstrate an ability to apply behaviour management techniques; [QCT Standard 7]
4. Demonstrate a capacity to draw on a range of teaching strategies in ways that align with pedagogical intentions; [QCT Standard 1]
5. Demonstrate acceptable standards of communication and professional responsibility and provide evidence of attaining acceptable standards of academic, professional and personal spoken and written English language literacies relating to this unit; [QCT Standard 2].
Content
This unit includes the following topics:
1. Understanding the theory and practice of classroom management and a variety of pupil management approaches available to teachers to prevent and deal with classroom behaviour issues.
2. Practical preparation for your introductory Field Experience, and frameworks to inform your observations, experiences in the field, and your developing skills as a reflective practitioner.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
This unit is taught through a series of lectures and tutorials on campus, in preparation for your Field Experience in a school setting. On campus: lectures, tutorials and workshops, printed materials, email contact, and web-based lecture notes, activities and other resources.
Filed Experience: you are assigned to the supervision of a teacher in a school, and you are supported in your development of skills and applied knowledge, through a sequence of tasks, assigned by the teacher.
Assessment
To pass this unit you are required to complete satisfactorily both assessment items.
Assessment name:
Demonstration
Description:
Minimum of 20 days of supervised field experiences in an educational setting.
Observation and graduated sequence of teaching episodes
Relates to objectives:
1 - 5
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Final Day of FE
Assessment name:
Portfolio
Description:
Evidence of developmental progress in QCT standards.
Length: 1000 -1200 words
Relates to objectives:
1 - 5
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
End-Semester
Academic Honesty
QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.
A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.
Resource materials
Required:
EDB021 Set of Readings available through CMD.
References:
Charles, C. M. (2005). Building classroom discipline (8th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education.
Edwards, C. H., & Watts, V. (2008). Classroom discipline & management (2nd ed.). Milton, Qld: John Wiley & Sons.
Killen, R. (2003). Effective teaching strategies: Lessons from research and practice (3rd Edition). Tuggerah, NSW: Social Science Press.
Marsh, C. (2008). Becoming a Teacher: Knowledge, skills and issues (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education Australia.
Risk assessment statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
The Commission for Children and Young People Act 2000 (Qld)
Under 18 years of Age:
You will not be permitted to undertake the first field studies unit in your course if you are under 18 years of age. This may alter your progression in the course and extend the duration.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 30-Oct-2012
