Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience: Teaching Performance Assessment

Credit Points: 12.00


Course Coordinator: Thembi Mason

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7729

Course Coordinator Email: Thembi.mason@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses 

Successful completion of TCHE2658 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education AND TCHE2625 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education. 

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course. 

For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage. 

Complete the suite of pre-placement requirements (child-safe standards module, mandatory reporting, WWC check, WIL agreement, WIL ready module). 


Course Description

This course is the culmination of a sequence of professional experience (work integrated learning) courses designed to develop your knowledge and skills to teach in educational settings. It has an embedded placement component in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience. 

In this capstone course, you will draw on learning from courses across the program and from professional experiences in schools/ educational settings. You will learn, practice and then be assessed on your capacity to complete a sustained teaching and learning cycle in a school/ educational setting and to demonstrate your work-readiness by submitting a Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) task. 

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) professional experience (PX) in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience. This PX is 20 days. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

As this course is the ‘capstone’ of this program, you will develop all of the program learning outcomes:  

  1. Develop and demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge through one or more of the following practices: planning using data; teaching and learning; assessing; feedback and professional judgement; and appraising impact of teaching across a range of disciplines. 
  2. Enhance student learning and wellbeing by adopting practices that support sustainable futures and principles of inclusion.  
  3. Support students to develop the skills needed to become collaborative, problem-solving, creative learners with agency, and innovative and engaged members of society. 
  4. Adopt and apply sustainable, ethical, and collaborative pedagogical approaches that demonstrate understanding of the transformative potential of education in local and global social contexts.  
  5. Demonstrate agency and an emerging professional identity through effective learning and teaching. 
  6. Apply initiative, judgement, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which may include the use of new technologies and teaching tools, to enhance your practice and to provide growth opportunities for students. 
  7. Engage with school communities and professional networks and communicate with diverse stakeholders in a range of contexts. 
  8. Draw on evidence-based theory and reflective practice to adapt to the changing needs of the profession and to identify professional learning needs to improve student learning outcomes. 


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:  

 

  

   Graduate APST 
1.  Consolidate knowledge of the characteristics of learners.  1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 
2.  Consolidate pedagogical content knowledge to create inclusive and productive learning environments.  2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2 
3.  Design and implement relevant curriculum and pedagogy, integrating literacy and/or numeracy and differentiating teaching to engage students in their learning.  1.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 

  
4.  Use data ethically to plan, implement, assess and evaluate a teaching and learning cycle.  5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as workshops, tutorials, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Teaching and learning may be face to face, online, or a combination of both. 


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.  

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal. 


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes (CLO) and on your development against the program learning outcomes. The assessment is also mapped against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST).  

Assessment Tasks 

  Title  Weighting  CLOs  APSTs 
AT 1 

  

 Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment  100% 

  

 All 

  

 All standards relevant to the context 
AT 2 

  

 School Mentor Placement Report 

  

 Pass/Fail 

  

 All 

  

 All standards relevant to the context 

  

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.