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This subject requires you to do a practical placement, please see Additional Requirements for more information.

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Professional Experience 4: Transition into the Profession

Postgraduate | CUR-MTC505 | 2020

Previously CUR-MTPS505

Course information for 2020 intake

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Advance from sitting in front of the teacher’s desk to working behind it. Determine the challenges you‘ll face as you transition into your education career. Put your knowledge into practice as you set out on a five-week professional placement.

Study method
Online & on-campus
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

Professional Experience 4: Transition into the Profession

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. design a personal professional plan to support continued professional learning and growth that incorporates maintaining a positive teacher identity and professional resilience; and is underpinned by research, the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and other related professional frameworks
    2. demonstrate achievement of the Graduate Standards for Teachers through successfully completing a five week full time block professional experience placement
    3. develop 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.

Entry requirements

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

one of

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).

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-MTPS505-Professional Experience 4: Transition into the Profession (no longer available)

Others

Please contact hum-ed-ouaprac@curtin.edu.au and request a waiver to enrol in MTC505 Professional Experience 4: Transition into the Professional experience.

Additional requirements

  • Placement requirements - The fieldwork for this unit includes a 25-day professional experience placement in an advised education setting. Placements are undertaken on a full-time basis in a continuous block at the specified time.
  • Other requirements -

    Working with Children check

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 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.

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