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This subject requires you to do a practical placement, please see Additional Requirements for more information.
Early Childhood Postgraduate Internship
Postgraduate | MAQ-ECHX8290 | 2020
Previously MAQ-ECHX829
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Refine your role as an early childhood teacher during a 30-day placement, 3 days a week over 10 weeks. Collaborate with children, parents and staff, and consider the context of the centre and characteristics of the children, families and community
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 18 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Early Childhood Postgraduate Internship
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Refine their teaching practices as an early childhood teacher
- Take responsibility for their own learning
- Develop confidence in justifying their professional decision making
- Demonstrate a depth of knowledge about selected areas of professional practice
- a) Professional Experience (the internship)
- b) Written assessment: Professional Portfolio = 8 Sections (1200 -1400 words each)
- Section 1: Who am as I a teacher?
- Section 2: Learning Envirnonment
- Section 3: Relationships with children
- Section 4 :Planning for learning
- Section 5 : Relationships with families
- Section 6 :Relationships with professional colleagues
- Section 7 : Taking on a leadership role
- Section 8: Reflections on the internship
- Two written work-in- progress reports before the submission of the whole portfolio. The whole unit is built around these topics.
- c) Professional Journal: Your journal is your personal record of professional decision-making and you are not required to share your journal.
- You may, however, choose to share selected pages in your discussions with your support team (mentor and supervisor).
- Journal entries will not be assessed, you share your ideas and concerns with other students on line.
This subject was previously known as ECHX829 Early Childhood Postgraduate Internship.
This subject enables students to refine their roles as early childhood teachers. During the internship students will have opportunities to strengthen their autonomy and independence as a teacher of young children as they explore their role within the centre and its local community. With increasing confidence, students will be able to justify their decision making as a teacher responding to the challenges of daily work in an early childhood centre. The internship contains a 30 day placement to be completed as three days a week over ten weeks. Students may complete the internship requirements in their own workplace where appropriate.
Students have to create a professional portfolio with 6 sections based on their internship and supported by academic literature. The portfolio has to be submitted electronically.
- Professional Portfolio (100%)
- Prof. Exp - un/satisfactory (0%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
MAQ-ECHX825-Early Childhood Professional Practice 2 (no longer available)
MAQ-ECEX825 (Not currently available)
and one of
MAQ-ECHX603-Early Childhood Professional Practice 1 (no longer available)
MAQ-ECEX603 (Not currently available)
- MAQ-ECHX6030-Early Childhood Professional Practice 1
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:
MAQ-ECHX829-Early Childhood Postgraduate Internship (no longer available)
MAQ-ECEX829 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
- Placement requirements - A 30 day placement is to be completed as three days a week over ten weeks. Students may complete the internship requirements in their own workplace where appropriate
- Other requirements -
Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.25 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 20 to 24 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.
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