This subject requires you to do a practical placement, please see Additional Requirements for more information.
Professional Experience 4: The Internship
UndergraduateCUR-EDC4502022
Previously CUR-EDC421
Course information for 2022 intake View information for 2025 course intake
A final subject to demonstrate your attainment of skills, knowledge and attributes as an early childhood or primary professional. Via a 10-week placement, demonstrate you can plan for and teach children with diverse backgrounds, abilities and needs.
Enrolments for this course are closed, but you may have other options to start studying now. Book a consultation to learn more.
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Professional Experience 4: The Internship
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate professional knowledge that reflects an understanding of student learning, content knowledge and pedagogy
- plan and implement positive, effective teaching, learning, assessment, moderation, provision of feedback, and reporting strategies that meet professional practice expectations
create, lead and maintain a positive, safe, supportive learning environment for all students that meets professional practice expectations
demonstrate professional engagement in continued professional learning, improving practice, professional responsibilities, meeting of ethical, legislative, administrative and organisational requirements and positive relationships with colleagues, parents, carers and the wider community
demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the responsibilities that comprise the role of the teacher/educator, including leadership, maintaining a positive identity and professional resilience
generate evidence of teaching capability from the practical elements of the professional experience being undertaken in the school setting, for the purposes of completing the teaching performance assessment
- This subject is a school-based professional experience placement comprising of one full school term, so there are no topics delivered.
This subject was previously known as EDC421 Transition to the Teaching Profession.
All core and elective subjects must be completed before students can enrol in their final subject, EDC450 Professional Experience 4: The Internship. Students will need to contact professional.experience@curtin.edu.au requesting permission to enrol in EDC450 Professional Experience 4: The Internship. Once we have confirmation that the student has satisfied the above requirements, then the restriction will be lifted.
This final subject in the suite of professional experience subjects is referred to as the Internship. It is for one full school term conducted in a full-time continuous block at the specified time. All required clearances for working with children must be valid and other subjects within the degree must be completed and passed in order to undertake the Internship. This subject provides students with the opportunity to exercise the professional skills, knowledge and attitudes in a school setting that demonstrate their classroom readiness. During this sustained professional experience, students will be required to demonstrate that they meet the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Graduate Career stage. This is done through a practical and a theoretical assessment. Both the practical and theoretical assessments must be undertaken together and passed in order to pass the subject. The professional experience practical assessment requires successful completion of the Internship. The theoretical assessment is a teaching performance assessment.
To view the Professional Experience Calendar, please see below:
2022 EDC450 PE4 The Internship Calendar (PDF)
Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.
- Teaching Performance Assessment (Pass/Fail)
- Professional Experience (100%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-BED-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Education (Primary Education)
- CUR-SGE-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (Humanities and Social Sciences - Geography)
- CUR-ECE-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)
- CUR-SAR-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (The Arts - Visual Arts)
- CUR-SEN-DEG-2022 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (English Education)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-EDC421 (Not currently available)
Others
EDC450 Professional Experience 4: The Internship is the final subject in the degree and is a restricted subject. All core and elective subjects must be completed before students will be allowed to enrol.
https://www.open.edu.au/-/media/subject-advice/2021-curtin-professional-experience-calendar-EDC450
Students will need to contact Curtin at professional.experience@curtin.edu.au requesting permission. Once we have confirmation that the student has satisfied the above requirements, then the restriction will be lifted.
Additional requirements
- Placement requirements - The fieldwork for this subject is a school-based professional experience placement comprising of one full school term, preceded by five days of school observation. The term placement must be undertaken on a full-time basis in a continuous block. Please note that all relevant, valid working with children checks and clearances must be provided as requested prior to commencement of the placement.
Study load
- 0.5 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 36 to 40 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Education (Primary Education)
UndergraduateCUR-BED-DEG
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (Humanities and Social Sciences - Geography)
UndergraduateCUR-SGE-DEG
Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)
UndergraduateCUR-ECE-DEG
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (The Arts - Visual Arts)
UndergraduateCUR-SAR-DEG
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (English Education)
UndergraduateCUR-SEN-DEG