EDMAS6125 Engaging Professionally 2

This unit is designed to provide pre-service teachers (PSTs) with the practical experience of engaging with children and/or young people in the classroom, and within the school setting. It focuses on enabling pre-service teachers (PSTs) to continue to develop their understandings of the professional work of teachers and includes 20 days professional experience. It also provides insights into the relationship between e¿ective teaching and practitioner inquiry. PSTs organise and participate in a Round Table Feedback Conference where they re¿ect on and present documentation related to the professional placement which has a focus on planning for learning, teaching for learning, assessing learning and personal professional learning. PSTs will also recognise the importance of inquiring into their own teaching using relevant methods as a way of engaging in professional learning by planning a practitioner inquiry proposal that they will then undertake in EDMAS6226 Inquiry into Practice. Through this unit, PSTs will understand the dispositions activated through their placement, and draw on their experience to develop and reflect on the skills required for effective classroom practice. PSTs will identify how an inquiry into practice can include a focus on their area of specialisation.

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