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Undergraduate CUR-EDC163-2021

The Professional Educator: Developing Teacher Identity

Discover what the teaching profession means to you and reflect on how this might inform your teaching career. Measure your confidence in what you’ll be teaching. Maximise academic integrity, form your teaching identity, and build your portfolio.  

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$493 $743

Your upfront cost: $0

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Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 01 Mar 2021
  • 30 Aug 2021
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Start your career with Curtin’s globally recognised courses and extensive industry connections. Through OUA, our online courses offer an interactive and collaborative learning experience that gets you the same degree as if you studied on campus. Curtin is a global university with a vibrant culture of innovation and collaboration and is ranked in the top one per cent of universities worldwide.

QS RANKING 2021

13

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

13

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

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

  1. assess personal levels of competence and confidence about language and literacy and successfully implement a plan to meet required standards
  2. demonstrate understanding of academic integrity practices within the learning context in relation to conduct, values, communication and protocols
  3. analyse potential challenges and resources related to developing resilience as an educator
  4. appraise, in the context of developing teacher identities, one’s own ethical and socio-cultural values with particular consideration of the planetary citizenship of educators; cultural diversity and Indigenous peoples’ knowledges and cultures; and the ethical and legislative responsibilities of educators
  5. employ knowledge of the Graduate Teacher Standards to establish initial content for a digital professional portfolio; and identify and adopt a reflective practice model to guide its ongoing development.
Topics covered
    • Assessing personal language and literacy competence
    • Academic integrity
    • The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and Documenting Evidence
    • Becoming a teacher: cultural competence awareness
    • Becoming a teacher: identity
    • Teacher Resilience
    • Becoming a teacher: global citizenship
    • Teaching in the 21st century – understanding learning and learners
    • Reflective practice
    • Values and the ethical practitioner
    • Pedagogy and The Australian Curriculum
    • My Professional Teacher ePortfolio
    • Review & reflection
Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

This subject introduces students to the course and the expectations of them as they develop into successful university students and future educators.

Students will explore theories of learning and position themselves as learners. This includes undertaking a language competency assessment and exploring the concept of academic integrity with its attendant expectations for research, written communication and oral presentation in academic and professional contexts.

Within the broad concept of education, the development of teacher identity will be informed by an examination of one’s own ethical and socio-cultural values with consideration of educators’ planetary citizenship; cultural diversity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; along with an educator’s ethical and legislated professional responsibilities, including completion of necessary clearances. It also includes an exploration of personal resilience as an educator.

A key component of the subject will be establishing the Digital Professional Portfolio in which students critically reflect and gather evidence of their capabilities against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Teacher Standards) throughout the duration of the course.

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.

Assessments

  • Language Assessment (0%)
  • Essay (50%)
  • Digital Professional Portfolio (50%)
Textbooks

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

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